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'''We Make Machines Not Art I'''  
'''We Make Machines Not Art I'''  


This is a rigorous introduction to the world of Do-It-Yourself Electronics. We Make Machines Not Art I proposes an art-making methodology where conceptual and aesthetic fundamentals grow out of a hands-on investigation of electricity and the materiality of electronic technology.  
This is a rigorous introduction to the world of Do-It-Yourself Electronics. ''We Make Machines Not Art I'' proposes an art-making methodology where conceptual and aesthetic fundamentals grow out of a hands-on investigation of electricity and the materiality of electronic technology.  


This course takes a bottom-up approach to developing art through deconstruction; intuitive experimentation; pattern recognition and reverse-engineering. By employing these techniques, it also aims to investigate the economic systems embedded throughout technology and consider how this impacts humans and nature.  
This course takes a bottom-up approach to developing art through deconstruction; intuitive experimentation; pattern recognition and reverse-engineering. By employing these techniques, it also aims to investigate the economic systems embedded throughout technology and consider how this impacts humans and nature.