DNR Spring Courses
Last summer, we launched a new and experimental education program. Instructor Theresa Tomi Faison facilitated a “DNR Bootcamp” whose waitlist and level of interest far exceeded our expectations. In the fall, we expanded this program by offering an additional course with Mike Pepi, author of Against Platforms (2025).
After four years of independent reading groups, crit groups, film screenings, and more, we are now taking on the task of educating the next cohort of artists and creatives. You can enroll today: view all DNR Spring 2026 courses here.
Spring Bootcamp (Sundays)
INSTRUCTOR: Theresa Tomi Faison
DATES: Sunday, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22
TIME: 1:00 - 3:00pm EST
Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and online media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord.
Technology Criticism
INSTRUCTOR: Mike Pepi
DATES: Monday, 3/2, 3/9, 3/16, 3/23
TIME: 7:00 - 8:30pm EST
A four week intensive to familiarize participants with core texts and issues in the debate over the role of technology in society, its politics, and its future. We will focus on the contemporary positions on the criticism of technology, spending extra time to unpack the last 10 years of debates over Silicon Valley platforms and their implications.
Enrollment is open today. Space is limited.
Fall Bootcamp (Tuesdays)
INSTRUCTOR: Theresa Tomi Faison
DATES: Tuesday, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17,3/24
TIME: 6:30 - 8:30pm EST
Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and online media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord.
Browse all DNR Spring 2026 courses.
“The Technology Criticism class was a great introduction to historic and current attempts to govern/deploy technology. I finished the course with a better understanding of actually existing tech criticism pulled from a wide foundation of strong resources - dealing with the current moment does not mean creating frameworks from scratch. It is necessary to understand the relationship between how technology is arranged, the context of its deployment, and the consequences that emerge when these are misaligned.”
- Hari, Fall ‘25
DNR hosts 3 semesters of courses per year: spring, summer, and fall. Early enrollment is available to members of the Discord community. To join the server, you can become a paid subscriber on Substack:
Past semesters:
New aesthetic languages were formed and refined online yet relatively ignored by the legacy art world. Esoteric right wing body builders made unlikely bedfellows with cat-ear-wearing trans women. We formed the reading group to dig into these questions and published our outputs to the blog.
