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Intermediate Painting: Ground to Surface — PAI4219.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

When you first learn how to paint, the focus is typically on gaining facility with the application and manipulation of paint to articulate the subject. In this intermediate course, we shift our attention to the often overlooked step that precedes painting: preparing the surface. 

Intermediate Painting: Scale, Process, and Presence — PAI4301.01

Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
This studio-seminar course will investigate painting through its history and practice at Bennington College. Using paintings in the permanent collection of the College as a starting point, we will think through the strategies deployed by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, Jules Olitski, Ann Truitt, Ralph Humphrey, and Larry Poons among others. Additionally, we

Intermediate Painting: Scale, Process, and Presence — PAI4301.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This seminar-studio course will investigate painting from an historical perspective. Using the permanent collection of the College as a starting point, we will think through the strategies deployed by painters working in the context of Bennington from 1950-1980. We will study works by Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, Jules Olitski, Norman Bluhm, Ralph Humphrey, and Larry Poons

Intermediate Potter's Wheel: Implementation for Form Development — CER4269.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 2
This 2-credit course is for students who wish to continue to develop their wheel throwing skills. Student must have previously taken Beginning Wheel Throwing or receive permission from the instructor (this will be based on your previous wheel throwing experience). Assignments will include combining wheel throwing and hand building techniques to make multiple sectioned, large

Intermediate Throwing — CER4104.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this course students will continue to develop their throwing skills and begin to define their own approach to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating forms.  They will be asked to expand their form vocabulary on the wheel and further integrate form and fired surface.  Students interested in function will be asked to look closely at those associated

Intermediate Video — FV4143.01

Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Assigned projects and assignments will have both technical and conceptual constraints. This semester of Intermediate Video will give a broad

Intermediate Video Intensive — FV4309.02

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
Intermediate Video Intensive will build on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, introducing a broad range of higher-level equipment and methods in both production and post-production editing. Students will complete multiple in-class technical exercises, and one project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be an abbreviated version of a

Intermediate Video Intensive — FV4309.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Intermediate Video Intensive will build on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, introducing a broad range of higher-level equipment and methods in both production and post-production editing. Students will complete multiple in-class technical exercises, and one project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be an abbreviated version of a

Intermediate Video Production: Reversing the Eye and Ear — FV4308.01

Instructor: Jonathan Schwartz
Credits: 2
This intermediate moving image course begins with aural experiments before it moves into a film/video space. We will be attentive to sound as a force that conjures inner images and provokes cinematic/experiential feelings without the use of images. For the first couple of weeks we will make imageless films (or sound only projects) constructed with cinematic experiences in mind.

Intermediate Video: Amnesia and the Archive — FV4321.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: Amnesia and the Archive is an in-person course with remote options, building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, one short project assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned exercises will have specific technical constraints. These

Intermediate Video: Contemporary Approaches — FV4117.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, two short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will give a broad overview of contemporary approaches to pre-production, production, and editing, with an

Intermediate Video: Contrapuntal Contested Narratives — FV4109.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, two short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions: How do we approach storytelling

Intermediate Video: Documentary Practices — FV4333.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions. Documentary as a form or genre has expanded over the past century to encompass a wide range of

Intermediate Video: Migration and Landscape — FV4322.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video is an in-person course, building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, one short project assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned exercises will have specific technical constraints. These technical aspects of the course will be

Intermediate Video: Moving Image and Structured Improvisation — FV4498.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Many works that don’t fit neatly into the documentary/fiction binary are developed through a combination of pre-determined structure and improvisation with actors, non-actors, and even a place as collaborator. By studying methods that come mainly from everyday movement research, experimental theater, and translation we will develop movement structures, texts, and other

Intermediate Video: Place and Modes of Presentation — FV4244.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. During this semester of Intermediate Video we will focus on the thematic of place and consider various modes of presenting moving image work. How do we engage with and portray the ethos of a place? Is a landscape merely pastoral? What does the

Intermediate Video: Reparative Aesthetics — FV4144.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: Reparative Aesthetics is a hybrid course building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, two short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned projects will have specific technical constraints. These technical aspects

Intermediate Video: Sensorium — FV4324.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions. Video (etymology: I see) has historically been a medium dominated by the visual. What other senses can be evoked through moving images?

Intermediate Video: The Archive — FV4332.01

Instructor: Laura Sofía Pérez
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. During this semester of Intermediate Video we will focus on the thematic of the archive and the role of the video artist as archivist. How may an archive inform our video work? How do we interact with or readdress a museum or institution archive? How

Intermediate Video: The Future — FV4397.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: The Future is an in-person course building on the technical skills introduced in Introduction to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, as well as longer projects of their own design.  Technical aspects of the course will be balanced with building a moving image discourse on the theme of the future, through readings,

Intermediate Video: The Future — FV4397.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: The Future is an in-person course with remote options, building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, one short project assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned exercises will have specific technical constraints. These technical

Intermediate Video: The Question of The Document — FV4117.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce several in-class technical exercises and short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will look at the question and current status of the document. What are the truth claims made by

Intermediate-Level Print Workshop — PRI4698.01

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This rigorous course allows students to continue working in a print medium (or line of inquiry) that is not available in another course.  At the beginning of term, students will have to be prepared to work on a written course of study that will be pursued within a structure of regular group critiques. Demonstrations of techniques will be given according to the needs

Interventions in Virtual Spaces — DA2113.01

Instructor:
Credits: 4
This course aims to identify and address social problems and conflicts with virtual solutions that offer futures that are self-determined, inclusive, egalitarian, and radical. Students will utilize HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web platforms to build interactive well researched projects that challenge social issues via the use of the internet. Students are asked to go beyond