Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Congratulations to Arts Lecturer and Director of The Center for Deep Listening Stephanie Loveless on her recent publications! Loveless published the chapter "This Street is a Song: Situated Listening in a Contested Site" in the book Disruption and Convergence: Generating New Conversations through Arts Research with Brill Publishers. In the Getty PST ART exhibition, “Atmosphere of Sound,” she published a catalog essay, "Scores for Listening in Times of Climate Disruption.”

Please join the Cognitive Science Department at noon on Wednesday, November 13th in Carnegie 113, for a seminar titled "Charting a Middle Path: Beyond Dialogue Systems Dichotomies" by Dr. David Traum, Director for Natural Language Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC).

November 22

5pm - 6:30pm

Sage 3303

DR. SCOTT OSHIRO is a Bay Area-based flautist and music technology researcher. As an African and Okinawan American, Scott’s creative and academic work incorporates influences from his heritage and combines them with Jazz, Hip Hop, and Electronic music. This lecture discusses ongoing research into the use of quantum computers for creating and understanding music.

November 21

5pm - 8pm

Sage 2510

Consisting of student works from Professor Ruiz' Intermediate Digital Imaging class Fall ‘24, this exhibition serves as a medium to display the complexity of the human body, the natural, and the built environment, while highlighting the uniqueness of individual gestural movement. The form of the human body acts as a genetic landscape unique to each individual. Similar to how one surveils the minute details of a panoramic landscape, this series of short studies documents the importance of point of view while highlighting the uniqueness of the individual subject.

The Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) presents the 2024 Graduate Arts Open Studios. Deep-fakes, 3D prints, simulations of neurotypes and architectural thought, life extension and preservations technologies, immersive video feedback, interactive ancestral installation, and Bhangra beats will be presented by the Electronic Arts Department and the Arts Graduate Colloquium of RPI. 

The Music Program in the Department of Arts and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences presents:

 Winter Sounds Festival 2024

Sunday December 8, Hass Media Studio (DCC 174) at 12:30pm

 Three concerts featuring performances by students of the Chamber Music Ensemble and new works by students of the Composition Seminar performed by members of the RPI Faculty Fellows.

12:30pm:  Chamber Music Ensemble I

2pm:  Composition Seminar

We are excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the HASS Student Research & Creative Activity (SRCA) Grant. This grant supports undergraduate and graduate students pursuing HASS majors in undertaking individual or group research and artistic projects. Projects may align with coursework or be designed outside of any course.

Grant Details:

Who can apply: Undergraduate and graduate students majoring in HASS

2/21/25

12pm-2:30pm

Fischbach Conference Room, Folsom Library, Second Floor

Have a story that could inspire others? Ready to raise your voice in solidarity with your community? Want to share your experiences with environmental or social activism? Get help composing or revising an essay, poem, or story for submission to the McKinney Writing for Social Change Contest with author and activist D. Colin.