This video production course will address the emergence of technologies that are no longer emerging and in some cases obsolete, which have affected vision, the perception of time and space, and representation. Readings by Wolfgang Schivelbusch on gas lighting, Lisa Cartwright on x-ray, Mark Seltzer on the typewriter, Lynn Kirby on the train, C.W. Ceram on primitive motion picture technologies, and various works on early wireless broadcasting, as well as visual works by inventors, scientists, and visual artists, will serve as source materials for students' own production work. Do these technologies possess their own agency? How do they affect vision, representation, and social contexts, and how do social contexts also affect the development and emergence of these technologies? What are the cultural dreams and fantasies that circulate around their emergence? How were visual arts and arts movements imbricated in these emerging technologies? Specific production assignments will address these questions, both in terms of content and aesthetic strategies. Enrollment limit: 12. Preference given to Art and American Studies majors.