In the boundaries between so-called hard science, and simple spoonbending lies the realm of Weird Science -- where certainty doesn't exist and people called "experts" battle for control of the meaning of words like "proof" or "fact".

As with all ACTLab New Media courses, we explore these ideas through making. There are no written assignments or exams. Instead you will produce two mini-projects, one substantial final project, and a website on which you document your semester's work. All our classwork has the goal of providing ideas and methods for those projects. ACTLab classes are about learning to think for yourself, to work creatively, cooperate in complex endeavors, and question received knowledges.

You will use the theories and conceptual tools you acquire during the semester to make stuff about some aspect of Weird Science. You will do this in stages, starting with simple projects and moving to more complex ones, using humor, irony, uncommon approaches, and bizarre techniques. Projects may be in any form -- film video, sound, performance, animation, collage, sculpture, assemblage, or any other media or combinations of media -- but they must incorporate the theoretical and methodological work of the semester.