In primary school, I remember my principal being fixated on classical music, believing that early exposure to “advanced music” could boost our appreciation of art. One piece she often played through the school’s radio was “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” composed by Benjamin Britten. The piece has stuck
Tag: Art
‘Hex Hexa:’ Are we putting too much faith in technology?
Why do we put so much faith in artificial intelligence? At Pitzer College, Los Angeles-based transdisciplinary artist Isabel Beavers explores humanity’s complicated relationship with technology through “Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams,” an exhibition blending ancient Greek mythology, copper mining and digital art.
‘Art in the Age of AI’ with professors Virginie Duzer, Mark Allen and Dustin Stokes
On March 25, the 5C Artists’ Coalition and the Pomona Student Union hosted an “Art in the Age of AI” talk at Claremont McKenna College’s Bauer Center. The talk began with a short presentation by Dustin Stokes, who provided context on the mechanisms of generative AI. For the duration of the talk, student moderator Maggie Zhang PO ’26 asked Stokes and the other panelists questions about the relationship between art and artificial intelligence across various contexts and academic disciplines.
Stories Retold: Can Artificial Intelligence create authentic translations?
How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) being implemented into literary translation? Ava Chambers ’28 discusses the recent implementation of AI in the translation process, impacting affordability and efficiency, but also raising questions about quality and valuation of translation jobs. Nevertheless, translation is an invaluable part of sharing stories that cannot be entirely supplanted.
MULTIMEDIA: Pomona College Art Department’s Look Without Fear Exhibition
Pomona College Art Department’s “Look Without Fear” exhibition was on view February 6th, featuring work by 17 artists from the 5Cs that highlight the art of noticing. TSL’s Multimedia team captured behind-the-scenes footage of the exhibition.
The Daily Palette: Tangles of Resistance in She Opens the Door
Starting with a poem that channels her feelings of the current state of the world, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on the exhibition She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art. She admires how Culverson, an LA-based artist, creates a cascading waterfall of fabrics that resists the binaries of society in her piece Float.
Ten years of ‘yes, you can’: How the Hive reshaped creativity across the 5Cs
As of this fall, the Hive has been a staple of the 5Cs community for ten years. In 2015, a grant transformed what had been the Seeley G. Mudd Science Library into a more flexible, lively space. A decade later, the Hive remains an experiment in creativity and collaboration.
“TforX: A Chronoscape” brings student-made slit-screen photography to Harvey Mudd Gallery
This fall, the Sprague Gallery at Harvey Mudd College presented “TforX: A Chronoscape,” the first solo exhibition of the artist duo Nolan Windham CM ‘25 and Jasper Eliot, a London-based artist and writer. The exhibition featured slit-scan photography, an experimental technique that required Windham and Eliot to build a custom software system to scan footage from different angles, slicing it into strips of time and space.
Humanities studio presents Nina Eidsheim on the sounds, art and philosophy of Wadada Leo Smith
On Oct. 2, the Humanities Studio hosted Nina Sun Eidsheim to speak on her latest book and research regarding sound and the work of musician and composer Wadada Leo Smith. The talk was titled, “Nina Sun Eidsheim on the Sounds, Art, & Philosophy of Wadada Leo Smith.”
OPINION: Replace reels with real life
Reels, TikTok, even the eldritch beast of YouTube shorts encroach have taken an aggressive hold on us, and Xavier Callan PO ‘28 is one of the brave souls who have gone cold turkey. Callan argues that we should follow his brave steps forward to take back control over how we spend our time.