The course provides incoming students with a basic understanding of the development and importance of new media art.  Beginning with a media archaeological approach and tracing developments in recording and presentation technologies, the course examines how innovations in media add meaning to making art.  Lectures cover how key technological advances in interactivity, networks, telepresence, programming, robotics, big data, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, bio/genetic engineering, generative systems and more have been incorporated into art practices. The course shows how artists have partnered with sciences to both utilize and often discover resonant possibilities within new technologies. Societal and cultural trends like immersive art experiences, social media, computational sensing, blockchain NFTs and more are commented on and often re-appropriated into artworks that reflect how technology becomes a media and how that media becomes art.