hear//now

Blodgett Auditorium

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.

Opening of Universal Collection: A Mark Dion Project

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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  

Washed Up: a lecture with Alejandro Duran

Rocky 200

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 […]

Experimental Open House: Olmstead

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 […]

Soundpainting Workshop with Mark Lindberg

Kenyon Hall, Room 201

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 […]

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 […]