Experimental Humanities

Experimental Humanities

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Experimental Humanities episodes

  • Season 2, Episode 1, Part 2: Sound Cluster Symposium
    The Experimental Humanities Sound Cluster gets together to discuss the planning and impact of its 2016 sound symposium, “Sound in Theory, Sound in Practice.” Featuring audio from the symposium, plus conversations with Laura Kunreuther, Danielle Riou, Olga Touloumi, Alex Benson, Maria Sonevytsky, Matthew Deady, and Julianne Swartz.
    21 min
  • Season 2, Episode 1: Intro to Sound Cluster
    The Experimental Humanities Sound Cluster gets together to talk about the origins of their cluster, what they've worked on, what it means, and what's next. Featuring conversations with Laura Kunreuther, Danielle Riou, Olga Touloumi, Alex Benson, Maria Sonevytsky, Matthew Deady, and Julianne Swartz.
    14 min
  • Season 2, Episode 2: Ghost Tour
    Bard Anthropology professor Laura Kunreuther hosts this episode, which features student work from her class, The Voice in the Machine. The course “asks students to think critically about the relationship of human self and voice to technologies and practices that animate and circulate the voices.” The episode features a final project by Vanessa Shapiro.
    13 min
  • Season 2, Episode 3: Interior Space
    Bard Studio Arts professor and EH sound cluster member Julianne Swartz hosts an episode with student work from her Sound Sculpture class, co-taught with Matthew Sargent. The pieces "explore solitude through a focus on interior space." The episode features work by Josie Cotton, Maeve Schallert, Siena Sherer, Madeleine Buzbee, and Will Hunt.
    30 min
  • Season 2, Episode 4: Living with the Machine
    Bard Music professor Matt Sargent hosts an episode with student work from his Sound Sculpture class, co-taught with Julianne Swartz. The pieces investigate “the internal life of cell phones and laptops, other hand-held devices; the objects that we carry around and live with every day.” The episode features work by Jacob McConnaughy, Loren Ames, Jess Belardi, and Ezra Kahn.
    17 min
  • Season 2, Episode 5: Landscapes
    Teaching fellow and a Master of Fine Arts candidate Andrew Lee hosts this episode, which focuses on landscapes; the projects “intimate [a] type of curiosity with the outside world.” The episode features work from Sound Sculpture students Will Santora and Clay Hillenburg.
    23 min
  • Season 2, Episode 6: Ward Manor
    Bard alumna Anne Comer ’19 guides us through her senior project research on Ward Manor, one of Bard’s current dorms and a former progressive retirement home, and the process of documenting graves in the adjacent Ward Manor cemetery. Anne interviews students Eli and Stella, Bard archivist Helene Tieger, and Hudsonia co-founder and Executive Director Erik Kiviat to learn about their unique relationships to the history and myth of Ward Manor.
    26 min

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How does technology mediate what it means to be human? The Experimental Humanities (EH) concentration is Bard’s liberal arts–driven answer to the Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities is an evolving…