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molds — SCU2215.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

This course explores the art and technique of mold making and its supportive processes.Think about all the teeth molds we make when we munch through our evening supper. Our mouths often act as molds to shape the pressures related to communication and speech.  This class will investigate processes related to many different types of molds,

Sculpture

Motion Capture Workshop — MA4126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich
Credits: 2
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. We will explore spaces and objects through 3d mapping; the results will then be manipulated and projected back into the space. We will also explore performers movement through motion capture of gestures that will be further manipulated digitally.
Visual Arts

Motion Capture: Interactivity — DRA4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Joshua Higgason
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space and its use in performance. Using Watchout, a multi-display production software, and utilizing various other tools such as live cameras, animations, motion sensing input devices, and real-world inputs, students will investigate the integration of
Drama Visual Arts

Multi-Media Performance: Manipulating Time/ Space — MA4146.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. The course will be a forum for actors, animators, dancers, video artists, and others to explore the interaction of live performance and mediated images. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into performance and used to
Visual Arts

Multi-Species Lab — APA2302.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
The Multi-Species Lab is an art and research class focused on creative practices and strategies that decenter the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration. Through collaborative and creative activities and assignments, we will research and question ideas of how to understand life—including human life—as a plural and ecologically enmeshed phenomenon.
CAPA Environment Visual Arts

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the 'classical' film era, to the institution of 'master' narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Filmmaking — FV2119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Make your first short film - from idea to realization! This course is designed specifically for students with basic filmmaking skills or a background in media. The Narrative Filmmaking course provides an intensive introduction to the world of visual storytelling. Tailored to nurture creative talent, this course teaches the fundamentals of screenwriting (developing an idea into
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts Environment

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice 2 — ARC2239.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: DSherefkin@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This history of architecture will be organized
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Negatives on Glass — PHO4106.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This seven week course explores the process of creating photographic negatives using the 19th century process of collodion on glass, commonly referred to as "wet plate" by its early practitioners.  In addition to making negatives on glass using a large format camera, students will also explore the careers of noted photographers employing the collodion process such as
Visual Arts

Negatives on Paper — PHO4107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This 7 week course explores the various methods that 19th century photographers used to create negatives using paper.  We will be focusing on replicating British and French processes that were used by the first generation of photographic practitioners, from roughly 1840-1860, including  William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, and Amelie Jacques-Michel Guilot
Visual Arts

No Narratives No Rehearsals: A Performance Art Workshop — VA2114.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
“Forget all the standard art forms. The point is to make something new, something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture. You’ve got to be pretty ruthless about this, wiping out of your plans every echo of this or that story or jazz piece or painting that I can promise you will keep coming up unconsciously.” -Allan Kaprow, “How to Make a Happening” Performance art is
Visual Arts

Object Oriented: Creating and Making with Technology — DA4208.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Jon Isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class examines sophisticated technologies including , laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC milling that provide new opportunities for conceiving and realizing creative ideas. We engage this new landscape of object making in relation to the fine arts and design. We will examine and respond to varying methodologies that have provoked a re-calibration of conceptual, aesthetic,
Visual Arts

Observation, Interpretation, and Construction in Ceramics — CER2143.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This class will investigate natural structures as a way to create form and surface. We will study organisms from the animal and plant kingdoms, investigating how they build structures such as hives, nests, tunnels, reefs, shells, growth structures of trees, plants, seed pods, and other natural growth patterns. This research will lead to students proposing a concept and method
Visual Arts

Observations: Photography and the Environment — PHO4113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This class explores the many ways photographers have shifted our understanding of the global environment, from documentary projects to collaborative interventions completed over the past 50 years. In addition to studying the works of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, there will be assigned readings by Elizabeth Kolbert and John McPhee. Students will also
Visual Arts

Observations: Photography and the Environment — PHO4113.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This class explores the many ways photographers have shifted our understanding of the global environment, from documentary projects to collaborative interventions completed over the past 50 years. In addition to studying the works of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, there will be assigned readings by Elizabeth Kolbert and John McPhee. Students will also
Visual Arts

Off The Chart — DRW4104.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
Athletes accumulate statistics. Musicians write scores. Sailors keep logs. Courts keep records. Artists turn quantitative observations into qualitative experiences. We will look at the works of Charles Gaines, Mark Lombardi, Howardena Pindell, Guillermo Kuitca, Sofie Calle, On Kawara, Alfred Jensen, and Alighiero Boetti as examples for discussion. Students will engage in the
Visual Arts

Off The Chart — DRW4104.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
Athletes accumulate statistics. Musicians write scores. Sailors keep logs. Courts keep records. Artists turn quantitative observations into qualitative experiences. We will look at the works of Charles Gaines, Mark Lombardi, Howardena Pindell, Guillermo Kuitca, Sofie Calle, On Kawara, Alfred Jensen, and Alighiero Boetti as examples for discussion. Students will engage in the
Visual Arts

On Collecting: Writings of Walter Benjamin — VA4209.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This course examines major themes in the writings of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) including history, politics, aesthetics, technology, urban life, archives, and collections. Our goal is to gain a greater understanding of Benjamin’s significance for cultural producers across disciplines, in particular artists, critics, and curators. Texts
Visual Arts