The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and its predecessor, the MIT Visual Arts Program (VAP), have hosted a Monday Night cross-disciplinary lecture series every Fall and Spring term since 2007.
The live performance of "Two Lips," a piece written by Niblock and recorded in 2011 by three different guitar quartets, was played at MIT by students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute under the direction of Neil Leonard.
How, amidst continual changes in society and media and the shifting relationship between psychology and film spectatorship, can we deal with notions of site, space, society, and subjectivity within cinema today?
The Stuart Hall Project (2012) is a film on the cultural theorist and sociologist Stuart Hall. Directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul, the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in Jan. 2013. Through archival footage, television excerpts, family ...
Arthur Jafa is the director of Slowly This (1995), Tree (1999), and Deshotten 1.0 (2009). His cinematographic work includes Daughters of the Dust (1991), for which he won the cinematography award at Sundance Film Festival in 1992; John Akomfrah’s Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993); and ...
Tadej Pogačar has examined indeterminacy and transformation within social systems since 1993 when he established the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art. In his art practice, he engages in interventionist logic, institutional critique and ...
Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real This talk will analyse the sonic and affective turns that have appeared relatively recently in both contemporary art practice and current critical thought from the standpoint of what Franco ...
Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art ...
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ...
Taru Elfving, curator and director of Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), calls into play the curatorial notion of the “dysfunctional” exhibition and its role within the larger concept of sustainability. CAA, a trans-disciplinary, ...
Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto juxtaposes cultural material from different international communities, such as those of the Japanese Americans, Nipo-Brasiliero, Peruvian ...
Keynote: Shun Kanda, Senior Lecturer, MIT (USA) James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor, MIT (USA) Respondent: Jegan Vincent de Paul, ACT Lecturer, MIT (USA) In the aftermath of the disaster suffered in Japan, MIT launched the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a multi-year ...
Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, discusses how some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation.
Excerpt from an interview with Elizabeth Anne Watkins, MS Candidate in Art, Culture and Technology. In this video Elizabeth talks about her research into time-based media.
11/07/2011 Stella McGregor, Director, Urbano Project (USA) Ploughshares from Swords - Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency Respondent: Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA) How does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises ...
10/31/2011 Lucy Walker, filmmaker (UK) 99 is not 100 - Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary Respondent: Claude Grunitzky, Chairman, TRUE, Sloan Fellow, MIT (USA) How do we observe or quantify the impact of an artistic ...
Our November/December 2011 issue features new technology for eavesdropping on the hive mind, an essay on the evolution of privacy, and much more.
October 17, 2011 Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab (USA) Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology Respondent: Brendan Mcgetrick, Independent Writer & Designer (China) Moore's law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing ...
In 1992, Jack Persekian founded Anadiel Gallery, the first and only independent gallery for Palestinian artists in Jerusalem.
New technology deciphers-- and empowers--the millions who talk back to their televisions through the Web.
02/14/11 Luginsland (On Art as Research) Florian Dombois, founder of the Y - Institute of Interdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland? Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Director and Associate Professor Luginsland (Belvedere) is an ...
