Explores creative intersections between computation, generative AI, and digital aesthetics. Students engage with three core skill domains-computational image manipulation, generative prompt engineering, and CSS-based art-not by mastering each technique in isolation, but through guided experimentation with working prototypes. Each module introduces pre-built examples that students adapt and extend to develop their own creative strategies. The course culminates in a final portfolio of six visual "historical artifacts" that simulate materials from imagined pasts-objects suitable for inclusion in an epistolary narrative, speculative archive, or alternate history project.