Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised, British-born contemporary artist and cyborg activist best known for having an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as a cyborg by a government. The antenna allows him to perceive visible and invisible colours such as infrareds and ultraviolets via sound waves. The antenna’s internet connection allows him to receive […]
Joe Richman is a Peabody Award-winning producer and reporter and the founder of Radio Diaries, a non-profit organization. For two decades, Radio Diaries has helped to pioneer a model for working with people to document their own lives for public radio. Joe has collaborated with teenagers and octogenarians, prisoners and prison guards, bra saleswomen and […]
Photographer Francesco Mastalia, Professor of Chemistry Miriam Rossi, and curator Mary-Kay Lombino discuss the unexpected intersections between organic farming, art, science, and food. For his 2014 book Organic, Francesco Mastalia used a large format wooden camera and the wet-plate collodion process, developed in the 1850s, to produce one-of-a-kind ambrotype images of more than 100 farmers and chefs of the […]
Corpus Nil is the new performance by computational sound artist and performer Marco Donnarumma. Two years in the making, this work hybridises the languages of dance, sound art and body art into a tense choreographic interchange between a human performer and an autonomous machine. As the performer moves, the machine uses the bioelectrical voltages and […]
Daniel B. Coleman Chávez, originally from San José, California, is a black transgender mover and shaker who has been invested and deeply entrenched in social movements for black, Latinx American, and queer people in the U.S., southern México, and in Europe. He is a performance artist, artivist, scholar, and pedagogue residing on multiple continents. Daniel […]
Audience members will journey across campus as the Vassar College Choir performs in various locations to celebrate and explore each space's architectural and acoustical elements. This concert is the culmination of "The Sound of Space," a course supported by the Creative Arts Across Disciplines Initiative at Vassar. Seating is limited. For reservations, please visit the […]
The Vassar College Dialogue Center, Forum for Political Thought, and Religious and Spiritual Life are working in tandem to produce a collaborative exhibit and dynamic dialogue space. During this week, the groups explore how circularity, encircling, and circumscribing enables and forms the foundation of inter-group dialogue and storytelling at its core. Various forms of storytelling […]
A showcase of the work from the CAAD-supported "Producing Audio Narratives" course that will give us a glimpse into the final podcast projects created by the students. Celebration to follow in the Blodgett Courtyard.
Mark Dion is a New York and Pennsylvania-based visual artist known for his "cabinets of curiosities" that incorporate found objects into site-specific installations. Find more information about this exhibition from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, linked below: http://fllac.vassar.edu/exhibitions/2016/mark-dion.html
Come hear Alejandro Duran talk about his Washed up Project. Duran will be returning to campus on July 21 to hold a workshop with Vassar students who are on campus this summer. More information on the workshop coming soon! What is the Washed Up Project? Washed Up is an environmental installation and photography project that […]