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“As Natural As Earth Turning” : An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Self And Other In Improvised Music, Maeve M. Schallert

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

A Feeling, Julianne Emma Arnold

Senior Projects Spring 2020

In this paper I use Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, specifically, considerations of the meaning of a word, in order to establish a groundwork for, and further illuminate, the messier areas of thinking about thinking and feeling about feeling that seem to occur across time. This "messier", and perhaps even physical, under-grid creating our feelings across time is one that I paint to shift endlessly, in its own ever shifting moments of sentiment comparison. It is also one that I undertake to comprehend using a similarly configured process of infinitely splitting methods of thinking and feeling.

Poetic Becoming: Building With Heidegger, Isabella Menuez Santana

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Art And Self-Creation: An Encounter Of Nietzsche And John Cage, Guang Yang

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Why is Nietzsche holds such a unique view of art? Why does he thinks that art is closely related to the development and transformation of our selves? This project provided an attempted explanation of the relations of art to ourselves in the context Nietzsche's works. By inviting John Cage into the conversation with Nietzsche, we might be able to get some new insights of what is the best way to actualize the power of art that Nietzsche envisions in The Gay Science and other works.

Orientation Of The Soul, Caleb M A Short

Senior Projects Spring 2020

an ontology and phenomenology of the meaning mechanism

in search of the life best lived and the capacity of human agency

In The Shadows And Folds, Julia Mueller

Senior Projects Spring 2020

In the shadows and folds is the result of a mental scavenger hunt that I began this past year, to uncover myself and find what is hidden in my crevices. It was spurred by my fear of memory loss which had grown to such a size that it sat visible in the back of my mind unaddressed for some time. The reason for this fear is not large but it feels monumental. I have been existing in various states of sadness and disconnect, which have acted like a thick blanket over my mind. This blanket is simultaneously protective and damaging, …

Installation: Untitled#0420, Thesis: Is The Artist’S Position Valid And Necessary To Her Completed Artworks ? —— An Investigation Of The Artist’S Position Through Martin Heidegger’S Poetry, Language, Thought And The Fisherman Analogy, Coco Ma

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Artist statement:

In my practice of mixed-media sculptures and installations, I use different kinds of materials in unexpected ways to provoke uncertainties, inquiries, and reflections. My works entice people to stop and pay close attention. In this process, they may be confused and amused. By being labor- intensive and repetitive with ordinary materials, my works inspire people to see familiar forms and materials in new and fresh ways. Underneath the familiarity of the materials is the “white noise,” a hum of dissonance between the familiar and the strange.

The installation Untitled#0420 uses fishing lines as its major component, which is …

Letter Blocks, Lukas Graham Hemmer

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of prose and poetry exploring language as a material object.

Investigating Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Anna Hallett Gutierrez

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This project is an exploration of Wittgenstein’s concepts of seeing and ‘seeing as’ and how they can be translated to deal with heard perceptions; hearing and ‘hearing as.’ Roger Scruton’s work with ‘hearing as’ is discussed, and a more complete picture is found of what this translation from seeing to hearing and ‘seeing as’ to ‘hearing as’ means for our larger conception of all sighted and heard perceptions.

An Epistemic Epidemic: The Role Of Risk In The Crisis Of Scientific Authority, Maya Sophia Mcclatchy

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Concrete Thinking In Images: Art And Image As A Site For Meaning In Hannah Arendt’S Life Of The Mind, Scout Joy Etterson

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing of Bard College

Revolutionaries In Form: The Russian Futurist Poets In The Cultural Politics Of The Early Soviet Union, 1917-1928, Noah Wurtz

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Embedded: The Bed As An Art Object, Maya Annika Teich

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.