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Slit-scan Photography — PHO2112.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dakota Pace
Credits: 2
Slit-scan photography is a process that captures an image through consecutive slices of time to create a smooth gradient of time that moves across the image. This technique has most commonly been used to document photo finishes in racing due to the accuracy with which it can document time. While its common use is more utilitarian, this technique has great potential for artistic
Visual Arts

Small Books and Zines: The Sequential Image and Word — DRW4267.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
In the gap between individual images and motion pictures lies the world of artists’ books and zines. A wide range of literary, poetic, and fine art structures make up the history of these media, and some of the richest examples cross over into the underground and various subcultures. The focus of this course is on the conception, production, and critique of small, image based
Visual Arts

Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community — CER2139.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This course will provide students with an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices and ethical processes that take up issues of food insecurity in the Bennington region. The class activities will be centered around a collaborative project, Empty Bowls, that links a community service organization (Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Service Inc.) with
Visual Arts

Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food, and Community — APA2269.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This course will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices of contemporary art and ethical processes in the context of local food insecurity. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction with local residents and by investigating creative interventions devised by artists/activists dealing with issues of food sovereignty and social justice,
CAPA Visual Arts

Social Life of Sculpture — SCU4106.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This class aims to explore opportunities for making and locating sculpture in a broader socio-cultural context. In-class presentations and discussions are structured to identify important examples of contemporary art practice and serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas and debate. Students will pursue projects that expand considerations of public audience engagement. We
Visual Arts

Social Practice: Your Art is in My __________ — DA4270.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nancy Nowacek
Credits: 4
Now over 10 years old, “Social Practice” is a term broadly applied to a variety of art-making strategies that implicates other people and/or social systems in their making. The genre has diversified from representing social forms (dinner parties, conversations) into stand-alone museums, real estate cooperatives, and schools: projects that intervene into real-world systems on
CAPA 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 in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robert ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from tactical media, online networking, 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 current practitioners. Students work collaboratively on projects that critically
CAPA Visual Arts Environment

Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
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 from interactive media, online networks, public discourse, activism, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, open systems
CAPA Visual Arts Environment

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: 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 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
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 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 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

“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

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