Alejandro Durán: Workshop

Taylor Hall, Room 318

In this workshop students will use the colorful international trash that Durán has found washed up on the caribbean coast of Mexico to create installations on the Vassar campus. We will explore forms that speak to the relationship between the synthetic and the natural at both the micro and macro level and produce photographs of […]

The Strangers Project in the Collaboratory

Outside Rocky

The Strangers Project is a collection of over 20,000 anonymous handwritten “journal entries” shared spontaneously by passing strangers. I ask people to write about anything they want—as long as it’s true. When people share their stories, we can explore the connections that make us human. Every day we visit work, school, cities, and businesses. We sit […]

The Vassar Textbook Swap: Collaboratory Edition.

Outside Rocky

The Vassar Greens and the Creative Arts Across Disciplines are happy to present The Vassar Textbook Swap: Collaboratory Edition. The Vassar Textbook Swap is a platform for Vassar students to exchange, donate, take, or borrow required academic materials. You can donate unused texts or shop with us for your classes this semester and help us […]

20/20 Biome Project Reception

The Bridge Building, Raymond Ave. Side

You are invited to participate in a bioart project in connection with the Freshman Common Reading. The 20/20 Biome Project involves the bacteria found on the members of the class of 2020—the bacteria that is part of each individual’s microbiome. The bacteria will be cultured in individual petri dishes, and those dishes will be sealed […]

“You’re Data”

The Mug

You're Data is both a research project and an experiment in science-inspired art making. With audio-illusions as our focus (those being ‘like optical illusions, but for hearing’), we designed an investigation using human subjects to produce results to be used in future cognitive science research. The results, as well as various artful depictions of the […]

Frances-Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Kenyon Hall

Friday, September 30th at 7:00 pm The Creative Arts Across the Disciplines in partnership with The Department of History and The Department of Dance and present costa compagnie's CONVERSION_2/ After Afghanistan, a documentary based dance and performance from Hamburg, Germany directed by Felix Meyer-Christian and choreographer Jascha Viehstadt . Members of costa compagnie, along with Vassar […]

The Vassar Textbook Swap: Collaboratory Edition

Outside Rocky

The Vassar Greens and the Creative Arts Across Disciplines are happy to present The Vassar Textbook Swap: Collaboratory Edition. The Vassar Textbook Swap is a platform for Vassar students to exchange, donate, take, or borrow required academic materials. You can donate unused texts or shop with us for your classes this semester and help us […]

The Vassar Textbook Swap: Collaboratory Edition

The Vassar Greens and the Creative Arts Across Disciplines are happy to present The Vassar Textbook Swap: Collaboratory Edition. The Vassar Textbook Swap is a platform for Vassar students to exchange, donate, take, or borrow required academic materials. You can donate unused texts or shop with us for your classes this semester and help us […]

Create and Control presents, “In the Case of a Person”

Rockefeller Hall, 200

In the Case of a Person In this project, the final product of Create and Control’s summer Multi-Arts Collective, three Vassar students from various disciplines are working on a project that merges Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Drama. They are preparing a small scale theater experiment that ventures into immersive and interactive theater by exploring […]

Create and Control presents, “In the Case of a Person”

Rockefeller Hall, 200

In the Case of a Person In this project, the final product of Create and Control’s summer Multi-Arts Collective, three Vassar students from various disciplines are working on a project that merges Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Drama. They are preparing a small scale theater experiment that ventures into immersive and interactive theater by exploring […]