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Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.02; second seven weeks

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Stradley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Digital Morphology is a foundation course in Rhinoceros modeling software. Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course will cover a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling. Across several small projects that focus on exotic form, generative diagramming, and rapid
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Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Stradley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Digital Morphology is a foundation course in Rhinoceros modeling software. Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course will cover a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling. Across several small projects that focus on exotic form, generative diagramming, and rapid
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Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Stradley
Credits: 2
Digital Morphology is a foundation course in Rhinoceros modeling software. Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course will cover a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling. Across several small projects that focus on exotic form, generative diagramming, and rapid
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Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Stradley
Credits: 2
Digital Morphology is a foundation course in Rhinoceros modeling software. Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course will cover a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling. Across several small projects that focus on exotic form, generative diagramming, and rapid
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Digital Negatives Alternative Processes — PHO4255.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This class explores the rich possibilities of creating digital negatives using Photoshop and printing them on 100% cotton papers using 19th century photographic processes such as Cyanotypes, Van Dyke Browns, and Kallitypes . We will spend time in class preparing optimum negatives using Pictorico inkjet transparency material followed by four weeks of making iron based light
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Digital Realities: Rhino 8 and the Art of Making — DES4110.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Derek Parker
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Digital Realities: Rhino 8 and the Art of Making is an introductory course in Digital Fabrication using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) equipment. This course will explore the use of 3D Printers, CNC Laser Cutters, and CNC Routers to create custom objects modeled in Rhino 8. The course will cover the necessary workflows and parameters

Design

Digital Synaesthesia — DA4106.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kate Dollenmayer; Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
In this course we'll rebuild and rewire the connections among artistic disciplines, examining the mutable nature of sensory information with innovative technologies including motion sensing, live video manipulation, Arduino microcontrollers, and smart phones. We'll learn Max/MSP/Jitter as a core language with which to make dance sing, visualize music, and turn video into
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Digital Technique for Architects — ARC2206.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Stradley
Credits: 2
Digital Technique for Architects is a 2-credit co-requisite of Prof Donald Sherefkin’s course Bennington Campus: Real and Imagined. This lab-based course will cover a range of digital techniques specific to architectural practice, from 2D drafting and the production of scaled drawing sets, to 3D NURBS surface modelling and 3D printing. Dovetailing with the assignments given in
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Digital Text Layout — DES2104.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Gus Ramirez
Credits: 2
In this course, students will work in Adobe Illustrator on text and layout specific projects. Starting with the foundations of Illustrator, the course will progress to basic and advanced functions of the typographic interface. The use of artboards and layer management, pen tools and path-finders, text and type formatting, color management, and printing will be practiced through
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Digital-Ply Woodworking within Digital Fabrication Methods — SCU4108.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is designed to introduce intermediate woodworkers or makers to the digital realization methods.  We will focus primarily on working with wood specifically where the hand and computer come together.  The hand drawing of joinery and design will make the steps transitioning them into digitally controlled equipment (hand/stationary tool shaping, CNC
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Directed Projects — PHO4247.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Students in this advanced level course will use research in both texts and images, and reflective writing, to hone their critical thinking skills to expand their photographic practice. Group critique will be a central component of the course, facilitating constructive evaluation of work in progress. By the end of the semester, students will produce a body of work
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Directed Projects — PHO4247.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Students in this advanced level course will use research in both texts and images, and reflective writing, to hone their critical thinking skills to expand their photographic practice. Group critique will be a central component of the course, facilitating constructive evaluation of work in progress. By the end of the semester, students will produce a body of work that
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Directed Projects — PHO4247.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This 4000 level course offers advanced students in photography the opportunity to develop and deepen a creative inquiry and present a solid portfolio of work by the end of the term. Emphasis will be placed on facilitating a constructive learning space to critique each other's work. Occasional reading/writing assignments, creative project prompts, and artist research
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Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Students in this advanced level course will use research in both texts and images, and reflective writing, to expand their critical thinking skills and their photographic practice. Peer critique will be a central component of the course, facilitating constructive evaluation of work in progress. By the end of the semester, students will produce

Photography

Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Students in this advanced level course will engage in research through both texts and images. Reflective writing and constructive peer critiques will expand their critical thinking and expand their photographic practice. Individual feedback by the instructor will be geared towards the progressive development of the student’s semester long project. By the end of the semester,

Photography

Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
Students in this advanced level course will engage in research through both texts and images. Reflective writing and constructive peer critiques will expand their critical thinking and expand their photographic practice. Individual feedback by the instructor will be geared towards the progressive development of the student’s semester long project. By the end of the semester,
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Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
Students in this advanced level course will engage in research through both texts and images. Reflective writing and constructive peer critiques will expand their critical thinking and expand their photographic practice. Individual feedback by the instructor will be geared towards the progressive development of the student’s semester long project. By the end of the semester,
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Dis/orientation in Spatial Sound Composition and Expanded Image — MSR4112.01) (cancelled 5/6/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Ghani Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This course will be based on Sara Ahmed’s theories on orientation and dis/orientation and her questioning of “What do such moments of disorientation tell us? What do they do, and what can we do with them?” The course will focus on finding recipes for the concept of dis/orientation using immersive audio technologies and expanded images and will focus on materializing the texts
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought Music

Documentary Practice: Ethics of the Photographer — PHO4109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course will investigate our understanding of the role photography has played in representing recent conflicts, disasters, and social upheaval from around the world. Readings include Martha Rosler, Susan Sontag, AD Coleman, David Levi-Strauss, and others. Films will also be scheduled to articulate particular points of view. Students are expected to complete either two
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Documentary Production: Personal and Political — FV4313.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
This course explores the full range of non-fiction possibilities including ethnographic films, personal cinema, cinema verite and even mockumentaries through screenings and video projects. Beginning with a group project and advancing to individual work, we will take a hands-on approach to documentary production: from interview techniques and verite shooting to character
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Documentary Video Production – Experimental, Personal and Political — FV4108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This course explores documentary possibilities through screenings and video projects. The class will look at and consider non-fiction techniques from early cinema verite films to recent attempts to address point of view and outsider status in documentary and experimental video work. In collaborative and individual projects, the class will take a hands-on approach to documentary
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Doll House, Diorama — VA2224.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. In this seven week course, students will work at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) on a personal project that would benefit from expression as a dollhouse, diorama, or maquette. Coursework will emphasize the importance of an organized and well-managed digital
Visual Arts

Doll House, Diorama – Created Worlds — MA4207.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. Working at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) students in this course will create dollhouses or dioramas and turn them into sites, surfaces and containers for animated and projected worlds. Students will use a variety of digital modeling and animation software
Visual Arts Drama

Dollhouse, Diorama — VA4131.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
The poet Susan Stewart compares the dollhouse to "the secret recesses of the heart: center within center, within within within." Paul Preciado likens a 1962 photo of Hugh Hefner beside a scale model of the first Playboy Club to similar portraits of modern architects like Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe—it suggests the “bonds of creation.” As a metaphor for interiority, or as
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