2019 Digital Showcase

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROJECTS


Amanda Lacey: “9-Man in Boston”  (Photo Essay) Audience Choice
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This is a collection of photos, interviews, and words that discuss 9-Man volleyball in Boston and its role in the lives of Asian Americans. The goal was to not only share the sport of 9-Man, which is often not known, and to share the struggles and some examples discrimination that Asian Americans and Asian American athletes face. It showcases 9-Man as an outlet and a way for these athletes to express themselves and truly see how strong and confident they can be.


Emily Griffin: “Mein Stank” (Photo Essay) Honorable MentionPicture

The project is a satirical photo essay told from the perspective of a stinkbug. It takes the form of propaganda for other stinkbugs, who have succeeded in a revolution against the humans, and are looking into the future of the New World Order. Of stinkbugs.

 

 


Emily Griffin: “Insect Inside” (Sonic Essay) Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 8.37.27 PM

The project is a sonic experience that imagines a sort of World War Three, but between insects and humans. It is in the format of a YouTube Video, with a single image I painted digitally of fireflies uplifting from the grass. The goal was to give the listener a somewhat humorous/somewhat dramatic and exhilarating experience. It uses sounds that remind us of various points of war and revolution in human history, and works to humanize the insects and get the listener thinking more profoundly about our relationship with nature.

GRADUATE STUDENT PROJECTS


Reshma Mohan“Yer A Wizard” (Video) Audience Choice
Image result for harry potterIt is a digital story about how Harry Potter helped me see the world. The digital story evolves around how I relate to the character and how the character. For this project, I have attempted to use appropriate video clips and music to not only trigger an emotional response, but to help set the context of my story of Harry Potter.

 


Patricia Case: “Tricia MK” (Video)Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 8.53.23 PM

This is project created for Teaching with Technology. This assignment asks students to connect one of our class texts to their lives, and this video is an example of a completed submission for the assignment. I hope my project shows students that it is possible to make personal connections even with texts that may at first seem antiquated and detached from our world today. I also wanted to show them that video projects can be made with just photos and clips that the student already has on hand.

Molly Booth: “Digital Performance Pedagogy” (Video)Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 8.55.25 PM

An exploration of the potential connections between digital technology and performance pedagogy. Combining video and audio, this project aims to represent a student learning how vocal emphasis and iambic pentameter influence meaning and interpretation in Shakespeare’s “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” speech.

Kaitlin Thurlow: “Ulysses@100” (Video)Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 8.56.28 PM

As a visual artist and literature student, my goal is to integrate the two disciplines in my creative, academic and professional work. This project includes audio narration and text excerpts of “Ulysses” with my interpretation of the novel, created in a series of abstract paintings and digital sketches. The digital project integrated these modalities and allowed the exhibit to be accessible and portable. By imagining the exhibit in multi-modalities, it opened up alternative possibilities for “reading” a text. In this project, audiences who are either new or familiar to the novel, sometimes described as “difficult” may have a new perspective or experience with “Ulysses.”


Sam Adamson: “Who is your daddy and what have we done?”(Video)

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This video remix is a mash-up of a scene from the film Kindergarten Cop (1990) and excerpts from interviews with the children of Donald Trump. The goal of this remix/mash-up is to keep the original artifact (the movie scene) intact while infusing new meaning into it by the juxtaposition of outside material (excerpts from the Trumps.) Although I had a goal as to what I wanted the remix to express, I would rather have the meaning of the remix determined by the viewer.

Matt Rogulski: “Aethereal Advisors”(Website and Vector Art)Screen Shot 2019-04-28 at 7.55.37 PM.png

Esoteric Stir Fry Text.

 

 

 

 


 

Caitlin Ghegan: “Split”(Webpage) Honorable MentionScreen Shot 2019-04-28 at 8.02.15 PM.png

“Split,” an interactive “stir fry” poem, uses javascript and multimedia to illustrate an experience of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I started with the hope that the poem might help to illustrate my sometimes-frenetic experiences, but also highlight the way in which digital environments can open up new modes of literature.


Nicholas Trefonides and Emmanuel Saake: “Cooperative Poem”(Webpage)

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Cooperative Poem and Community Politics (CoPo) is a web application for writing coauthored, ekphrastic poems. One page of the website is for writing poems about artwork submitted by users of CoPo and another page is for responding to the representative of user’s voting district.

 

Daniel Elfanbaum: “Experiments in Digital Poetics” (Webpage)Screen Shot 2019-04-28 at 8.17.32 PM.png

Experiments in digital poetics as they translate to web-based media, specifically adaptations of existing html and js-based poetic tools/forms.

 

 

 


 

Krisela Karaja: “Blood/\Feud”(Webpage) Honorable MentionScreen Shot 2019-04-30 at 12.33.29 PM.png

My project, “Blood/\Feud” is inspired by the “Stir Fry” texts of Jim Andrews and Ali Rachel Pearl, remixing Pearl’s code from “Bloodlines.” My remix explores themes central to my MFA poetic thesis, also titled “Blood Feud.” This remix is an interactive text combining voices and images—an imagined letter in poetic form from my Albanian grandfather writing to his father in Albania while working at the Traymore Hotel on the Atlantic City boardwalk. It is also an imagined letter in poetic form from me in Albania at less than a year old, writing to my father abroad in America.

FACULTY PROJECTS


Screen Shot 2016-05-03 at 9.09.37 PMMatthew Davis, Assistant Prof. of English: “Ways of Knowing & Doing in Digital Rhetoric” (Webtext & Video)

This webtext excerpts 25 audio/video interviews with scholars in digital rhetoric and digital humanities and synthesizes their interview responses into an overview of emergent digital rhetorical pedagogy. This portion of the text examines their reponses to four questions:

 

  • What are the outcomes for teaching with/in digital rhetoric, and   how do you achieve those outcomes?
  • If you had to pick one reading/book/essay/scholar to assign your students in digital rhetoric, what would it be and why?
  • What is your favorite assignment in digital rhetoric and why?
  • How (if at all) do you assess digital rhetoric in the classroom?