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.
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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 ...
04/04/11 Turning Out the Space Attila Csorgo, artist, Budapest, Hungary Respondent: Thomas D. Trummer, Siemens Stiftung Curator of Visual Arts? Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his work Peeled Spaces. Another piece, Distorted Spaces, is ...
03/28/11 Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology? Ricardo Dominguez, artist, activist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD Respondent: Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media Ricardo Dominguez is ...
Science & Fictions Laurent Grasso, artist, Paris, France? Respondent: Stefan Helmreich, MIT Professor of Anthropology Laurent Grasso will discuss the ideas and processes behind his HAARP project (High Frequency Active Auroral research) eponymous of a research base in Gakona, Alaska. One ...
03/14/11 Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and Other Jae Rhim Lee, artist and ACT research fellow, MIT, Cambridge MA Respondent: Nicholas A. Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy; Director, MIT Technology and Law Program ?Jae Rhim Lee's ...
A Guide to Campo del Cielo Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg, artists, Buenos Aires, Argentina Respondent: Richard P. Binzel, MIT Professor of Planetary Science In 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg began working on A Guide to Campo del Cielo, a ...
Bulbo, a Tijuana- and Los Angeles-based media collective, explores cultural, artistic and everyday themes often overlooked or under-represented in mass media. Their documentary, Tierra Brilliante ("the brightest glaze") spotlights lead poisoning suffered by ...
Laura Anderson Barbata worked with the Yanomami people of the Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest, teaching them to make paper and books so they could write their own history. Their first book Shapono tells the story of the gods Omawe and Yoawe who taught the Yanomami how to ...
9/13/10 - Climate Changes in Science Fashion ?Elke Gaugele As future technologies of the modern augmented self and its geopolitical extensions, proactive clothing was first anticipated at the turn of the century in popular culture, science fiction and art. Since the ...
Lecture given at Bartos Theater on April 12, 2010 Discussion moderated by Joan Jonas "Where's the Passion" is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two recent performances ...
Lecture given at Bartos Theater on March 15, 2010 Discussion moderated by Amber Frid-Jiminez Magda Fernandez creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in these contemporary times. She is drawn to the strengths and weaknesses that make us tick, how those characteristics spill ...
Alex Reben from the Media Lab joins the 4.332/4.333 Networked Cultures & Participatory Media: Networked Sensorium Class in the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (in Course IV) for an introduction to physical computing and Arduino. This is part 1 of 2.
Alex Reben from the Media Lab joins the 4.332/4.333 Networked Cultures & Participatory Media: Networked Sensorium Class in the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (in Course IV) for an introduction to physical computing and Arduino. This is part 2 of 2.
Lecture given at Bartos Theater on March 8, 2010 Discussion moderated by John Bell Bread and Puppet Theater director Peter Schumann will present a short fiddle lecture illustrated with cantastoria banners, after which moderator John Bell will lead a discussion with Schumann about Bread and ...
Lecture given at Bartos Theater on March 1, 2010 Discussion moderated by Jay Scheib Constanza Macras was born in Buenos Aires Argentina, studied fashion design at the University of Buenos Aires and trained at the Margarita Bali School of Dance. She continued her training at the New York at ...
Lecture given at Bartos Theater on February 22, 2010 Discussion moderated by Nell Breyer Xavier Le Roy was born in Juvisy sur Orge, France in 1963 and studied biochemistry at the University of Montpellier. He began his dance career in 1988, performing for companies including Véronique ...
Pia Lindman The New York Times Performances 2003-2006 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ In Battery Park City, Manhattan, NY, 09/09/05 ...
Fascia, a commissioned work for Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York 2006_____________________________________________________________________________________________ An artist statement by Pia Lindman ...
Warning, this video contains some explicit languagePIA LINDMAN: SOAPBOX EVENT Reinventing Forms of Free Speech __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Location of first event: Federal Hall National Memorial 26 ...