Technology, Justice, & Creative Practice
Welcome to The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network
Bard College Annandale
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States of America
Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation. The undergraduate curriculum is designed to address central, enduring questions facing succeeding generations of students. Academic disciplines are interconnected through multidisciplinary programs; a balance in the curriculum is sought between general education and individual specialization. Students pursue a rigorous course of study reflecting diverse traditions of scholarship, research, speculation, and artistic expression. They engage philosophies of human existence, theories of human behavior and society, the making of art, and the study of the humanities, science, nature, and history.
Experimental Humanities (EH) is Bard’s interdisciplinary center for experimentation with digital, analog, and conceptual methods of learning, research, and public engagement. We are committed to the notion that embracing experimental approaches is essential to fostering practices that are inclusive for all learners and transformative for the societies in which we live. As a key part of our mission, EH works with media and technology from across historical periods, taking them not only as objects of scholarly study but also as live methods; we consider the experience of form a crucial pathway to understanding how it functions as a part of cultural, social, and political inquiry.
Experimental Humanities at Bard
EHCN Representatives: Bard College Annandale Dominique Townsend is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bard College in Annandale on Hudson, NY. Her primary research interests include Tibetan Buddhist history, aesthetics, cultural production, poetics, and translation theory. Columbia University Press will release her first scholarly monograph, A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery, in March 2021. She is also a poet and published a book of poems called The Weather & Our Tempers with Brooklyn Arts Press in 2013. She has an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD from Columbia University. Bard College Annandale Adhaar Noor Desai is an Assistant Professor in the Literature Program at Bard College, Annandale, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare, Poetics, Jokes, Literary Characters, and Cultural Studies. He is also one of the co-founders, along with Maria Cecire and Krista Caballero, of the OSUN-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. His scholarship, which studies theories and practices of writing pedagogy, literature’s relationship to the history of science and technology, and literature's role in the advancement of social justice, has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and collected volumes like English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Configurations, and Teaching Social Justice through Shakespeare. He has nearly completed his first monograph, tentatively titled "Discomposing Shakespeare: Studying Early Modern Literature at the Scene of Writing," which argues that studying the writing habits of Renaissance poets can help address the contradictions inherent to writing instruction in the modern literature classroom. Bard College Annandale Krista Caballero is an interdisciplinary artist exploring issues of agency, survival, and environmental change in a more-than-human world. Moving freely between traditional and emerging media, her work explores the messy and often surprising encounters between human, ecological, and technological landscapes. In 2010 she created Mapping Meaning, an ongoing project that brings together artists, scientists, and scholars through experimental workshops, exhibitions, and transdisciplinary research. Caballero was selected as a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and is now a Smithsonian Research Associate working with the National Museum of Natural History researching the cultural implications of bird species decline. She has also been awarded residencies from organizations such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, MD; and Caldera Arts, OR. Her artwork has been presented nationally and internationally in exhibitions and festivals such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA); the North American Ornithological Conference; “Paradoxes in Video” at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran; EXTREME. ENVIRONMENTS / RAY2018 Photo Triennale in Germany; Balance-Unbalance International Festival in Queensland, Australia; “A New We” at Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway; Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington D.C.; and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Caballero received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and is currently the Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities (EH) and Artist in Residence at Bard College. Anna Hallett Gutierrez is the Program Assistant for the OSUN-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network and is the Coordinator for the Center of Experimental Humanities at Bard College. She is based at the Center for Experimental Humanities in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. A graduate of Bard College Conservatory of Music’s double-degree program, Ms. Hallett Gutierrez holds a BA in philosophy and a BM in violin performance. Bard College Annandale Luisa Colón is the Program Manager for the OSUN-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN). In this role, she helps facilitate network operations and maintain meaningful collaborations among all EHCN partner institutions. Prior to joining the Bard community, Luisa worked for various private and nonprofit organizations in the fields of international education and community development. She managed programming in Latin America for Amigos de las Américas and The New School and taught English as a Second Language in Thailand and New York. Her interests lie in the intersections of community-based development, international relations and international education. She appreciates the opportunities to learn and do more about meeting local and global challenges and to engage with diverse groups of people. Luisa earned a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in International Management and Marketing from Boston University.Dominique Townsend
Adhaar Noor Desai
Krista Caballero
Anna Hallett Gutierrez
Luisa Colón
