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At the end of my work day, I do what any college student would at the end of a warm, clear summer day: I take a walk, make dinner, and get started on homework. It’s true. I spend most evenings completing exercises for my online data science course, which Hamilton offers through the Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation (LACOL). The course includes 11 Hamilton students and dozens more from other colleges, such as Swarthmore and Williams, and is taught by professors throughout the LACOL system.

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation has awarded a grant to Hamilton College for Immersive Experiences in Arts and Technology.

When part of a 25-year-old press at Hamilton’s Print Shop unexpectedly broke down, the machine quickly became inoperable. Townsend Industries, the manufacturer of this T-51 printer, closed down in mid-2010, making it nearly impossible to find replacement parts for the press. Thanks to help from LITS and a student though, the machine is now back in service.

At first, you hear just a voice. The screen is black, then fills with the pink-purple-blue motion of an otherworldly night sky. From the bottom of the screen, a solitary figure in a hoodie rises, back to the camera, to speak the next line of his spoken-word poem. It’s Sacharja Cunningham ’19.

The assignment, layered with challenges, united students from two courses: Advanced Video and Introduction to Music, Sound, and Technology. Professor of Art Ella Gant, who teaches the video course, dubbed the project “Drone on Drone.”

An open curriculum and studying what you love can take you all over the place, and Andrew Groll ’19 arrived at a literature major with the spectrum-spanning minors digital arts and medieval and Renaissance studies.

The venerable Museo del Prado in Madrid inspired Elizabeth Lvov ’17 to create a research project rooted in digital media.