DART Courses

DART courses aim to serve as a catalyst for cross-school collaboration. They begin when two faculty members from diverse disciplines design a one-month intensive course that explores the creative process at the intersections of design, art, and technology.
Held each year over the course of January term, DART courses give up to ten Division II students the opportunity to work together with faculty in the development of a single, large-scale artistic work.

JANUARY 2011
Design, Art, & Technology: Light From Within, Light From Without
Professors Peter Kallok and Larry Winship
The light around us constantly changes. Most living things, plants, animals and microbes, sense the duration, intensity, direction and spectral quality of light. Light can tell us where we are, when to act or to rest, and affects our moods and even our most basic physiology. By living indoors, people create their own light-fields, yet the physiological, emotional, cultural and creative experiences of spatial transition from inside to outside are often taken for granted. While studying what keeps us inside and what draws us outside, we will explore the transition through, in, and out of light. We will experience and analyze the contrasts and tensions between light as experienced inside (artificial light) and light as experienced outside (natural light). We will consider the essential components of those experiences and investigate changes in perception, color, intensity, space and time. Our venue will be the college Bioshelter, a flexible experiential space inhabited by both people and plants that is neither exclusively inside nor out, bounded only by a thin transparent membrane that both emits and admits light. We will collaboratively design and construct an installation or an environment that adapts both natural and artificial light, relying primarily upon solid state, high efficiency light sources and digital controls, creating a new experience of and a new relationship with light and nature and a space capable of being both challenging and contemplative.
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Explore the results of the January 2010 course, The Empathetic Space.

Music in this video by Jordan Lieb 97F.
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