This course explores creative strategies and operations of glitching and chimering the self, unsettling normative expression of identity and embodiment by engaging with speculative modes of self-representation shaped by creative processes, technological mediation, and posthuman imaginaries.

Mobilizing posthuman, cyber- and glitch-feminist strategies, we will reclaim glitch, “monsters”, and myth-making as feminist and queer way of imagining non-normative, chimeric, and speculative identities and rethinking avatars and digital self-bodies as sites of transformation and experimental hybrid self-figuration.

Together, we conjure glitch and chimeric mutations through hands-on experimentation with a constellation of free and open-source tools, including generative AI systems, and explore these hybrid self-bodies via extended realities (XR) environments.

Practical exercises will move between the glitched, the grotesque, and the chimeric, to transform the self‑body into a mutable, shifting, and unruly assemblage and become otherwise, together.

To become chimeric is to resist coherence: to glitch, to graft, to mutate.

To successfully complete the lecture, participants are required to:

• Develop a working project over the course of the semester. The project should reflect on the lecture’s thematic focus and incorporate one or more of the tools introduced throughout the course.

• Present the final project, including visual documentation

• Attend and actively participate in the lecture (minimum 75% attendance required)

• The lecture will be held in English.

• The practical component is designed to accommodate a range of experience levels, from beginners to advanced. No prior knowledge is required, but existing skills are welcome.

• Participants will need access to a laptop. If this is not possible, please contact the lecturer via email to discuss alternatives.

• Active participation and engagement are essential and required to complete the semester.