Visual Arts

Social Practices in Art — VA4104.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Robert Ransick

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from interactive media, online networks, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how media and technology are impacting and shifting current practice. Students

Visual Arts

Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Robert Ransick

Credits: 4

In this course, we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how artists are moving out of the studio and into the public realm with their work. Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies that engage social forms from public discourse, activism, online networks, shared meals, street interventions, social sculpture, performance, artist

CAPA Visual Arts

Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism — APA2184.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow

Credits: 2

Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of

CAPA Visual Arts

Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Creative Repair — VA4408.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Credits: 4

Threading together. This course focuses on developing collaborative group projects which reflect the concept of collective sharing that lies at the heart of various arts collectives in Asia. We start by creating a place and space for a communal gathering centered on the collective action of repairing and transforming clothing. Core topics are anchored in the cultural discourse

CAPA Visual Arts

Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Critical Kitchen Pedagogy — APA4113.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This course focuses on developing an independent, self-directed research project, anchored in cultural discourse and social-political context of food and to be pursued through various creative practices. Research topics include but are not limited to decolonization, migration, identity, community activism, mutual care and collective healing. Engaging with creative

CAPA Visual Arts

Sound Art — MCO4136.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin

Credits: 2

This class takes an interdisciplinary approach to sound, examining sound as a relatively new medium within contemporary art. We will look at how sound has entered the discourse of contemporary art practices since the mid-20th century through now, focusing on conceptual and performance art practices, and how they set the stage for sound art. Students will be asked to create new

Music Visual Arts

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Senem Pirler

Credits: 2

This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley recordings, sound effects editing, and post-processing.

Visual Arts Music

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Senem Pirler

Credits: 4

This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley, sound effects editing, and post-processing. Students will learn

Music Visual Arts

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: senempirler@bennington.edu

Credits: 2

Visual Arts Music

Sound in Site: Performance and Installation — MCO4702.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

Credits: 4

This course is for students who want to create site-based performances and installations with an electronic or performative sound component. Throughout the semester, students will investigate relationships between sound and site, informed by their exploration of sonic materials, listening, site-visits and readings that address contemporary critical and conceptual issues related

Music Visual Arts

Space Shaping Image Making — ARC2208.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 4

Can architecture be understood in the same terms as a photograph? A piece of writing? A painting? A film? Or does it require its own vocabulary, rules, precedents, and sensibilities?

Architecture Design

Space Shaping Image Making II: Readings — ARC4119.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm

Credits: 2

“Not long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art” or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book ‘The Art Architecture Complex.’ While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and

Design Architecture

Space Shaping Image Making: Readings — ARC2207.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 2

Architecture Design

Spatial Audio Practices — MSR4051.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Senem Pirler

Credits: 2

This course will offer an introduction to the principles of spatial audio and its function in creative sound practices. The topics will include multichannel audio, Ambisonics and binaural sound, 360 spatial audio recording and mixing, sound design for VR, and immersive electroacoustic music. Along with readings and discussions, we will look at various current sound practices

Music Visual Arts

Spatial Interventions — VA4127.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin Dana Reitz

Credits: 4

For this class, we will be constructing elements to directly interact with the structures and the spaces of the campus, with the intention of creating or revealing new understandings of our built environment. In the process of doing so, we will be exploring our own physical interactions with these shifting locations. Assignments will require that projects address the physical

Visual Arts Dance Drama

Spatial Justice: Incorporating Social Theory into Artistic Practice — APA2183.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow

Credits: 2

Spatial Justice is concerned with how space produces and is a product of power. All social movements deal with some aspect of spatial injustice which makes it a useful way for movements to find possibilities for solidarity. There is also a growing constituency of artists—from socially engaged artists, to sculptors, scenographers, musicians, etc.—who are incorporating ideas from

CAPA Visual Arts

Spatial Narratives — DAN4228.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Credits: 2

The configuring of two people simply standing in a particular space can mean many different things — to those in it and to those seeing it. By having the two change where they face, switch positions with each other, or move to other locations, we can notice the impact of these changes on how we see the space, how we read the relationship and how we understand the action.

Dance Drama Visual Arts

Special Projects: As It Relates to the Tool — SCU4227.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: John Umphlett

Credits: 2

This class exists as an expansion into individual projects related to information that was discovered in Idiosyncratic Tools. Each student must write a proposal due on the first day of class that includes an outline of the proposed “Tool” functionality, ideas about materials and some rough diagram describing the procedures involved in producing the device. This Tool proposal

Visual Arts

Special Topics in Video Production: Indirect Memory: Experimental Documentary and Parafictional Approaches to the Moving Image — FV4219.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Chelsea Knight

Credits: 4

This course explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary in film and video, and registers shifts in contemporary art in relation to these forms. In particular, we will look at the way experimental movements in documentary and carefully constructed parafictions can engage and interact with political spaces differently than traditional documentary or fiction. Students

Visual Arts

Special Topics in Video Production: Misogyny in the Media — FV4114.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Chelsea Knight

Credits: 4

This course will trace the path that misogyny has taken in the media since the onset of third wave feminism. In the class, we will look at both mainstream and experimental films, television, videos and news media that either reproduce or resist misogynist stereotypes. Students will conduct research into the history of misogyny and build two video works that respond to its

Visual Arts

Species of Spaces — ARC2130.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

Credits: 4

Working from George Perec’s essay, this studio will explore strategies of describing the physical world, with an emphasis on the elements of architecture. The subjects of the work will include rooms, buildings, cities and maps, both real and imaginary. Beginning with a sheet of paper as our starting point, students will gradually work with increasingly larger scales, following

Visual Arts

Species of Spaces — ARC2130.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Working from George Perec's text, this studio will explore strategies of describing the physical world, with an emphasis on the elements of architecture. The subjects of the work will include rooms, buildings, cities and maps, both real and imaginary. Beginning with a sheet of paper as our starting point, students will gradually work with increasingly larger scales,

Visual Arts

Sports — FV4105.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

Credits: 4

This intermediate video production course will explore the relationship between moving image and athletics. Students will examine the work of pivotal figures from Leni Riefenstahl to O.J. Simpson in an effort to understand the role sports play in society, art and life. Studio projects will focus on formal issues from camera movement, stabilization, resolution, depth

Visual Arts

Still + Moving Image — PHO2156.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

In this remote course we will explore the rich terrain between photography and film from the early 20th century to the present moment. Through weekly screenings, pdfs of published texts, and synchronous small discussion groups, we will study the still/moving image work of Moholy-Nagy, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Mary Ellen Mark, RaMell Ross, and others. Written responses will

Visual Arts

Strategies of Display (The Museum as Muse) — PHO4102.01

Spring 2017

Instructor:

Credits: 2

This course will present a history of art exhibitions, that artists and curators have embarked upon that have shifted the way we think about exhibitions today. We will look closely at artist-driven exhibitions, and how these displays have impacted artistic production and institutions that exhibit Art. Students will be doing self-directed

Visual Arts