Faculty
Sue Rees
Sue Rees has exhibited her set designs, animations, installations, and video works worldwide and has worked collaboratively with choreographers, directors, and musicians in the United States, Europe, and India.
Mariam Ghani
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work in video, installation, photography, performance, and data operates at the intersections of language, loss, migration, memory and history, and has been exhibited worldwide. Her feature-length documentary What We Left Unfinished premiered at the 2019 Berlinale, was released theatrically in 2021, and has streamed on Criterion, Ovid, and Docuseek. Her second feature, Dis-Ease, premiered at the Tate Modern in 2024 and is currently streaming on Docuseek. She has collaborated with choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly and composer Qasim Naqvi since 2006, and with visual artist Chitra Ganesh since 2004 as the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared.
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, expanded cinema and feminist practices. Her recent work is on the sensorial unconscious of anti-colonial movements and feminist experiments with language and narrative. Recent exhibitions include: the 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, the Momenta Biennale in Montreal and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, among others. Her work is part of public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and Kadist.
Recent Visiting Faculty
Technical Instructor in Video and Design/Animation
John Crowe
John Crowe is a time-based artist, animator, and sculptor, working primarily in video and large scale installation. Without narrative, but with a physical mise-en-scene, appropriated video/film loops and sculptures distill cinema into vignettes. Crowe cofounded VML in 2011, a live performance video group focused on the manipulation of video signal feedback.
Academic Links
CHEQROOM
Cheqroom is your dedicated space to check out equipment for the digital arts at Bennington.
CURRICULUM: VIDEO AND ANIMATION
Each term the video faculty design the courses for the students to learn and build their video and animation skills.
