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.
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing at MIT. How are new technologies, such as Ocean Waveguide Remote Sensing, enabling many new discoveries about remote undersea habitats? How will these technologies permit scientists to detect ...
Pia Lindman The New York Times Performances 2003-2006 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ In Battery Park City, Manhattan, NY, 09/09/05 ...
October 26, 2009. The activist collective The Yes Men transformed New York city for a day through a tactical media intervention. A hoax print of the New York Times was massively distributed throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign in 2008. The Yes Men have an unusual ...
Mark Tribe will present a selection of projects, such as the Port Huron Project, that explore how tactical practices and public interventions use the internet and other networks as a means to instigate political discourse and public collaboration. This work addresses zones of emergency in a ...
The contrast between Thierry Nlanduâ's and Marjetica Potrcâ's approaches made this conversation particularly intriguing. Thierry focused on building dialog and critique within the community about the larger democratic system within which the citizens are a part. He ...
Marjetica Potrc joined Thierry Nlandu in conversation at the Zones of Emergency event on April 14. Marjetica spoke about her research in three areas: the Western Balkans (LHE), the Amazonian state of Acre and the city of New Orleans. She argues that "the territory of the body and the ...
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 ...
Curator and editor, die gestalten verlag (dvg), Berlin (Germany) With a population of six billion and an increasingly complex technology, civilization has become a force akin to nature, causing far-reaching changes to earth?s ecosystem. Confronted with the challenges of creating space in this ...
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 ...
Artist; fashion designer; Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment at the London College of Fashion; Paris (France) Is the idea of a settlement in a place like Antarctica ? inherently isolated, inhospitable and uninhabitable - a tabula rasa that could lead to a ?nation of humanity? and ...
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 ...
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 ...
November 16, 2009. Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko introduces his critical design proposals including Poliscar and Homeless Vehicles. Wodiczko's work points toward the search for the city to come, one which provides a space that allows for disagreement, a prerequisite for democracy. This lecture ...
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?
Kayvan Zainabadi, former president of Amnesty International at MIT, will speak about his experience at MIT working with Amnesty on crisis in Darfur.
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 ...
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 ...
Joe Dahmen is an architect whose work engages resource and energy consumption in the design of space and the infrastructure that supports it. He is Chief Executive Officer of Bodega Algae LLC. Dahmen has pioneered new construction techniques for the use of rammed earth structures in New ...
