INT 01: Ortient
A moment to meet and orientate, to understand and share perspectives on our relationship with technologies.

"If we know where we are when we turn this way or that way, then we are orientated. We have our bearings. We know what to do to get to this place or to that place. To be orientated is also to be turned toward certain objects, those that help us to find our way. These are the objects we recognize, so that when we face them we know which way we are facing. They might be landmarks or other familiar signs that give us our anchoring points. They gather on the ground, and they create a ground upon which we can gather. And yet, objects gather quite differently, creating divergent grounds. What difference does it make ‘‘what’’ we are orientated toward?"

Queer Phenomenology, Pg. 01, Introduction, Sarah Ahmed, 2006


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Taught as part of the MA Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, Interface, is a class through which students critically examine emerging technologies and their intersections with race, gender, sexuality and geopolitics. Working with a curated set of theoretical texts, students are encouraged to shape the outcome of the class, interrogating their decision-making through a variety of methodological approaches.


Selected Feminist Internet Projects:


Tomorrow’s Nipple
The Photographers Gallery, London / IAM, Barcelona, 2018

Commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery, Tomorrow’s Nipple is a collaborative film exploring body politics, representation, and censorship in digital spaces. Composed of found and original footage, interwoven with an abstracted script derived from collective readings and collaborations, the film reflects on the shifting boundaries between bodies, images, and algorithms. Presented publicly in the gallery’s atrium space, the film’s deteriorated aesthetic reflects the instability of online representation, asking, how can an algorithm know what gender it’s looking at? Tomorrow’s Nipple looked to capture a moment in digital culture, a time marked by the rise of algorithmic scrutiny and gendered panic.




INT 02: Glitch
An introduction to different critical perspectives, thinking about the ways in which technologies impact us socially, changing the way we relate to one another. 

"Herein lies a paradox: glitch moves, but glitch also blocks. It incites movement while simultaneously creating an obstacle. Glitch prompts and glitch prevents. With this, glitch becomes a catalyst, opening up new pathways, allowing us to seize on new directions. On the Internet we explore new publics, engage with new audiences, and, above all, glitschen between new conceptions of bodies and selves. Thus, glitch is something that extends beyond the most literal technological mechanics: it helps us to celebrate failure as a generative force, a new way to take on the world."

Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell, 2020


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Blade Runner: Auto Encoded, Terrence Broad,






INT 03: Scrape







Taught as part of the MA Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, Interface, is a class through which students critically examine emerging technologies and their intersections with race, gender, sexuality and geopolitics. Working with a curated set of theoretical texts, students are encouraged to shape the outcome of the class, interrogating their decision-making through a variety of methodological approaches. The material on this page outlines the teaching covered during Interface.

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