After Affects Media Noah Lape

In this final installment I look at the purpose of authenticity. What are the reasons we hold it to such high regard? Sources: Walter Benjamin - Work of art in the age of digital reproduction. RedwedgeMagizine - Remix Culture. Pacific Standard - Yale research on originality. Contact: lapen@rpi.edu

In this chapter I look into the depths of why an AI can be racist. The implications of this are far reaching and affect every one of us. Sources: MIMI ONUOHA- Notes on Algorithmic Violence. Paglen and Crawford - ImageNet Roulette. Googles search engine - Engineers. Gregory Coppola - interview about google. Contact: lapen@rpi.edu

In this chapter I explore the forgotten populations of the Libyan revolution, and the brutal executions of the Myanmar government. Then we will segway into the expendable population of natural disasters and how that effects our humanity. SOURCES: Reuters-Myanmar Burning. Vice-Libya's quiet war. BBC-China Uighurs (Mentioned at beginning). Ourworldindata-natural disaster death toll. CONTACT: lapen@rpi.edu

In the chapter I talk in detail about what it means to have nostalgia. How nostalgia is relevant and how we continue to seek it out. Sources: Engadgt-Sony's 40th anniversary walkman. New York Times-What is Nostalgia Good for?. Emma-RPI NewMedia. Contact: lapen@rpi.edu