Filmed and Edited by Bryce Eckwall Performance by Alexis Azadian Music by Patrick Jetter Professor Howard Good – Being Digital Fall 2016
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace from Jamie Fandl on Vimeo. Poem by Richard Brautigan Music: “Industrial Music Box” by Kaven Macleod Special thanks to Jillian Tanda (and Safety Man, the mannequin) Professor Howard Good – Being Digital Fall 2016
In Howard Good’s Being Digital class, students were asked to visually interpret E.E. Cummings poem ‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’. This video uses subtle images to represent the “progress” of modern technology and how it is increasingly disrupting lives through consumerism and entertainment. Filmed and edited by Liz Gaschler and […]
Students from Professor Howard Good’s Being Digital class created one minute visual interpretations of a technological ideology. For the fall 2015 semester, the students had a choice of many multimedia options, such as stop-frame animation, traditional animation or simply a video. In a dystopian technologically-infused world, we will see no […]
By Holly Lipka and Liz Gaschler “A desire is never simply the desire for a certain thing. A desire to be fully filled in, met so that I desire no longer. It’s always also a desire for desire itself. A desire to continue to desire.” Slavoj Zizek — ‘The Pervert’s […]
Watched Over from Annie March on Vimeo. Being Digital students Patrick Angehr, Annie March and Russell Hartman analyze the impact of technology in modern society through Richard Brautigan’s poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.” For more Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications […]
Being Digital Project – Kelly Seiz from SUNY New Paltz on Vimeo. Being Digital student, Kelly Seiz, uses charcoal drawings to interpret E.E. Cummings’ poem “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind. For other Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications of technology in medicine. Kevin Ha’s humorous take on […]
After reading Neil Postman’s “Technopoly,” students in Howard Good’s Being Digital class were inspired to create videos which tied in the author’s theories of modern technology advertisements and the issues surrounding them. Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the intrusion of technology into the medical world. Produced by: Kate Bunster and […]
After reading Neil Postman’s “Technopoly,” students in Howard Good’s Being Digital class were inspired to create videos which tied in the author’s theories of modern technology advertisements and the issues surrounding them. Kevin Ha, gives a humorous take on how people are now judged based on what smartphone they have. […]
