Skip to main content.
Bard
  • Bard
  • Academics sub-menuAcademics
    Bard College Commencement
    • Academics
      • Programs and Divisions
      • Structure of the Curriculum
      • Courses
      • Requirements
      • Discover Bard
      • Bard Abroad
      • Academic Calendar
      • Faculty
      • Libraries
      • College Catalogue
      • Dual-Degree Programs
      • Bard Conservatory of Music
      • Other Study Opportunities
      • Graduate Programs
      • Early Colleges
  • Admission sub-menuAdmission
    • Applying
      • Apply Now
      • Financial Aid
      • Tuition + Payment
    • Discover Bard
      • Campus Tours
      • Meet Our Students + Alumni/ae
      • For Families / Familias
    • Stay in Touch
      • Join Our Mailing List
      • Contact Us
  • Campus Life sub-menuCampus Life
    Bard Campus Life

    Make a home in Annandale.

    • Living on Campus
      • Housing + Dining
      • Campus Resources
      • Get Involved on Campus
      • Visiting + Transportation
      • Athletics + Recreation
      • New Students
  • Civic Engagement sub-menuCivic Engagement
    • Bard CCE The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked.

      Take action.
      Make an impact.

      Get Involved
      • Campus + Community
      • In the Classroom
      • U.S. Network
      • International Network
      • About CCE
      • Resources
      • Support
  • Newsroom sub-menuNews + Events
    Upstreaming
    • News + Events
      • Newsroom
      • Events Calendar
      • Video Gallery
      • Press Releases
      • Office of Communications
      • COVID-19 Updates
    • Special Events
      • Commencement Weekend
      • Alumni/ae Reunion
      • Family + Alumni/ae Weekend
      • Fisher Center
      • Bard SummerScape
      • Bard Athletics
  • About Bard sub-menuAbout Bard

    A private college for the public good.

    Support Bard

    Legacy Challenge
    • About Bard College
      • Mission Statement
      • Bard History
      • Love of Learning
      • Visiting Bard
      • Employment
      • OSUN
      • Bard Abroad
      • The Bard Network
      • Montgomery Place Campus
      • Campus Tours
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Sustainability
      • Title IX and Nondiscrimination
      • HEOA Disclosures
      • Institutional Support
      • Safety and Security
      • Inside Bard
      • Alumni/ae Network
      • Family Network
      • Support Bard
      • Legacy Challenge
  • COVID-19 Information
  • Give
  • Search
Bard Abroad
Main Image for Berlin Summer Studio

Berlin Summer Studio

Berlin Menu
  • Berlin Home
  • Academics sub-menuAcademics
    • Arts + Society in Berlin
    • LAB: Liberal Arts Berlin
  • Summer sub-menuSummer
    • Summer Studio
    • Summer Theater Intensive
  • Student Life
  • Health + Safety
  • Alumni/ae Opportunities
  • Apply
  • Bard Abroad Home
The Berlin Summer Studio program provides students with an insider’s view of Berlin’s vibrant art world through a unique course featuring a different theme each summer. We anticipate the relaunch of this program in Summer 2023.  For application updates, please fill out this form.

Berlin Summer Studio Curriculum

  • Studio Work
    In this course designed for studio and media arts undergraduates, students spend time developing their individual practices in the studio and the city to culminate in final creative projects shared with guest critics. Themed modules focus on a particular format of transmission including: letters and art by mail, sound and radio, live feeds and signals, video, and digital networks. Each module includes a short workshop exercise, artist presentations, and site visits. Open studio time, feedback critiques, and visits to major Berlin arts institutions are integrated throughout the course. Familiarity with Photoshop or Premiere is helpful, but no prior experience with particular media formats is required. The program emphasizes individual experimentation leading to final projects and a public open studio.
  • Sasha Engelmann, Satellite Séance (2019), Bude, Cornwall; Photography by Matthew Philips
    Transmissions
    Transmissions are ubiquitous, experienced every time we send or receive a message. From smoke signals to smartphones, cultures have used signs, circuits, routes and relays to disseminate images and sounds across space and time. Bard in Berlin’s Summer Studio explores the theme of “transmissions” across a range of conceptual and material artistic practices that bridge analog and digital media—from mail art to cinematic dispatches, radio broadcast to live-feed video. Set against the backdrop of Berlin’s cultural history, this class engages the legacies of art and technology at the Bauhaus (1919-1933) where the traditional arts were integrated with emergent forms in photographic, machinic, and communications media. Further, we will explore the landscape of Cold War surveillance, topics in German Media Theory, and contemporary visual arts practice in Berlin. We will visit local sites of historic and active media infrastructures, have studio visits and workshops with artists and scholars, and experience the scenes of culture that make Berlin a vibrant global center for contemporary art production.

    Sasha Engelmann, Satellite Séance (2019), Bude, Cornwall; Photography by Matthew Philips

Connect with Bard Abroad

  • Submit an Inquiry Form
  • Bard Abroad on Facebook
  • Bard Abroad on Instagram
Bard College
Campus Road, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000
Phone: 800-BARDCOL
Admission Phone: 845-758-7472
Admission E-mail: [email protected]
©2020 Bard College
Follow Us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Follow Us on Instagram
You Tube
Information For:
Prospective Students
Current Employees
Alumni/ae 
Families
Quick Links
Employment
Travel to Bard
Site Search
Support Bard