Experimental Humanities

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A quick introduction to EH Out Loud!

We learn about the vultures on Bard’s campus with the help of some Bard students, staff, and faculty.

We move beyond the Hudson Valley to investigate vulture research across the Americas. We talk to a scientist and cultural anthropologist whose respective interests share some interesting overlaps.

For our last episode in the vulture series, we talk with an ornithologist and a drone researcher about birds in the digital age— particularly, how they interact with aerial technologies.

In this episode, we join Literature professor and director of Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities, Maria Sachiko Cecire, as she chats with two students from her Woman as Cyborg class— Ariel West and Bird Cohen. Their discussion is followed by a re-broadcast of the episode “Our Quantified / Cyborg Selves,” from Maria’s podcast “In Theory,” which she hosts with Noorain Khan.