Arts

Channel | updated April 16, 2013

The arts at MIT connect creative minds across disciplines and encourage a lifetime of exploration and self-discovery. They are rooted in experimentation, risk-taking and imaginative problem-solving. The arts strengthen MIT's commitment to the aesthetic, human, and social dimensions of research and innovation.

Artistic knowledge and creation exemplify our motto — mens et manus, mind and hand. The arts are essential to MIT's mission to build a better society and meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Learn more at http://arts.mit.edu

Two Lips Performance

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.

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Folding fiends: MIT's Origami Club

OrigaMIT: MIT's Origami Club

OrigaMIT is MIT's original origami club, which exists to promote, practice and teach origami folding, analysis and design.

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On the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art

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 ...

Arensky Piano Trio - MIT Chamber Music

MIT students perform the Piano String Trio No. 1 in D Minor composed by Anton Arensky. Bravo to violinist Pam Cai, cellist June Kim, and pianist Ray Hwa Wu. And thanks to their coach Marcus thompson. Four movements: Allegro, Scherzo, Elegia, and Finale. Killian Hall, ...

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Junot Díaz on 'Moyers & Company'

MIT Professor of Writing Junot Díaz sat down with journalist Bill Moyers on "Moyers and Company."

Krista Lynes: Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global ...

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Krista Lynes: Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village

Krista Lynes, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Department, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada In his critical analysis of postmodern culture, Fredric Jameson asserted that the particular temporality of video, its “total flow,” bound ...

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Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'

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Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'

Ros Gray, Lecturer, Critical Studies, Goldsmiths University of London Within the context of cinematographic traditions and different liberation movements on the African continent, Ros Gray’s research focuses on revolutionary cinema and its global networks; the ...

MIT Glass Lab Musical Instruments

MIT CAST visiting artist Mark Stewart, Glass Lab faculty and students experiment with the acoustic properties of glass on Oct, 23rd, 2012. Filmed by Erik Demaine and Nicole Teeny.http://arts.mit.edu/cast/artist/stewart/

Moving Beyond Materiality: MIT Visiting Artist Tomas ...

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Moving Beyond Materiality: MIT Visiting Artist Tomas Saraceno

In this public lecture, MIT Visiting Artist Tomas Saraceno discussed the speculative context and experimental materials of his Cloud Cities with Nader Tehrani and Anton Garcia-Abril

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Spider silk makes music

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Spider silk makes music

An ear for music, it turns out, might be a key to making structural improvements in synthetic materials.

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Happy 40th: Council for the Arts at MIT

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Council for the Arts at MIT turns 40

Highlights the history for the Council for the Arts at MIT and looking toward the future.

Advances in Architectural Geometry - MIT

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Advances in Architectural Geometry - MIT

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and the MIT Department of Architecture co-sponsored a video that was featured at the "Advances in Architectural Geometry" symposium at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from September 27-30, 2012. Architectural geometry is an emerging field ...

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Junot Díaz named 2012 MacArthur fellow

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

21L.011 The Film Experience: Italian Neorealism: De Sica ...

21L.011 The Film Experience: Italian Neorealism: De Sica and The Bicycle ...

The Film Experience 21L.011: Italian Neorealism: De Sica and The Bicycle Thief. This is lecture #1 for November 30th. This lecture stands in place of the 7-8:00 PM section of 21L.011. This lecture video is REQUIRED viewing.This course is an introduction to narrative ...

Civic Media Lunch: "ZUMIX"

ZUMIX is an East Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building our community through music and the arts. A core belief is that music is the most powerful means of developing adolescent self-identity. Our award-winning music and creative technology programming is designed to equip ...

Allen Hockley, Introduction to 19th Century Photography in ...

Allen Hockley, Introduction to 19th Century Photography in East Asia

Allen Hockley Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist/allen.html Allen Hockley is a specialist in 19th and early-20th-century photography in and about Asia; his work for VC introduces some of the pioneer commercial ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 18: TV Genres

Class 18: TV GenresInstructor: David ThorburnThe class takes a cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation, considering television as a system of storytelling and myth-making, and as a cultural practice, studied from ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 10: TV Genres

Class 10: TV GenresInstructor: David ThorburnThe class takes a cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation, considering television as a system of storytelling and myth-making, and as a cultural practice, studied from ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 16: TV Genres

Class 16: TV GenresInstructor: David ThorburnThe class takes a cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation, considering television as a system of storytelling and myth-making, and as a cultural practice, studied from ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 5: The ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 5: The Broadcast Era

Class 5: The Broadcast EraInstructor: David ThorburnThe class takes a cultural approach to television's evolution as a technology and system of representation, considering television as a system of storytelling and myth-making, and as a cultural practice, studied from ...

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