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Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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A bug in the system: speculations on cybernetics, superorganisms, and simulated serendipity

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Layla Fassa
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

What is a cybernetic organism in the age of digital imagining? Where can we find a historical nexus between the methods used to models systems and the increasing velocity of digital images? How do bodies fracture and congeal when integrated...

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Digital Art and the Museum

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Stevens, Anastasia
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Digital art faces challenges that non-digital art does not. Technology is mercurial, and digital art is always in danger of its platform becoming obsolete. It is, at its most basic form, information which can be transferred and viewed across different...

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moss green velvet tablecloth

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Frankland, Alexandra
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

A mostly-stock-footage video essay that explores the relationship between a person and their traces / the work imagines an "I" and a "you" as they think through the fictions of memory and interpersonal boundary, through the impulse to create and...

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