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Michael Sagalowicz"I like everything about [digital art]," Michael Sagalowicz, ES '98, said, "although I hate computers." Even before enrolling at Yale, Sagalowicz had composed and produced a record of computer music and had done audio and video work on professional editing systems. So when he arrived at Yale, "I was shocked to discover that even advanced filmmaking classes used rusty VHS camcorders from the 70s and run-down VHS editors."Despite Yale's much-maligned multimedia computer facilities for undergraduates, Sagalowicz has continued working with digital art at Yale. He is enrolled this semester in Art 901, taught by Carol Scully, which is open to both undergraduates and graduates. This makes him one of a handful of undergraduates to have access to the graduate digital lab. In spite of the lack of undergraduate access to high-tech facilities, Sagalowicz said, many faculty "are very much for digital art, especially sculpture faculty." Sagalowicz feels that Yale's lack of decent equipment for undergraduates is unfortunate and wrong-minded. He said, "Great works in all fields always make use of both the ideas and the technologies of expression available at the time of their creation. Yale seems to be balking a bit at the idea that we exist in an age when new forms of expression are rapidly developing. Staying three steps behind should not be their mantra."
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