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 […]
Please see the event description below from 2016 CAAD Multi-Arts Collective participant, Gabrielle Miranda. Greetings! On behalf of Creative Arts Across Discplines and one of the three groups funded by the program this summer, Do You Hear What I Hear, you are cordially invited to an Experimental Evening in the EEG Lab in Olmstead! Do […]
You may have noticed that as part of Late Night at the Loeb, The Powerhouse Theater Training Program and the FLLAC are presenting Soundpainting performances every Thursday in July . CAAD is proud to present a workshop with seasoned soundpainter, Mark Lindberg. If you like improv, if you play an instrument*, or if you are just […]
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 […]