Chris Duffy is a NYC-based comedian who performs across the country. His shows have been featured in The New York Times,Boston Globe, Washington Post, and in The Onion A.V. Club. Chris is the creator and host of You're the Expert, a live show, podcast, and public radio program on Boston's WBUR where three comedians try […]

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 […]