Visions of Light

Outside Rocky

An audio-visual installation by Patrick Walker consisting of two musical compositions, Choral Fantasy, a meditative piece exploring the question of the insignificance of humanity in the greater universe, and M45 an electro-acoustic composition inspired by the Abenaki legend for the creation of the Pleiades constellation (Messier object 45), paired with simple projections. Thursday, April 7, 3:00-5:00p Friday, April 8, 12:00-3:00p […]

Life in the Age of Cyborgs

Rockefeller Hall, 200

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 […]

Public Conversation with Neil Harbisson and Marco Donnarumma

Rockefeller Hall, 200

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 […]

Telling the Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Life

Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, 109-Rosenwald

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 […]

Art/Organic/Chemistry

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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 […]

Marco Donnarumma Performance of Corpus Nil

Vassar Chapel

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 […]

El Umbral: A psychological-spiritual performance encounter with the demons transition(s)- wresting the in-betweens

Villard Room

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 […]

Sound of Space Concert

Vassar Chapel

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 […]

On the Tip of My Tongue: A Week of Unusual Storytelling

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 […]