Arts

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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

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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 ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 1: ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 1: Introduction: Television ...

Class 1: Introduction: Television and Cultural Study Instructor: 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 ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 3: Television ...

MIT 21L.432 Understanding Television - Class 3: Television As A Cultural ...

Class 3: Television As A Cultural FormInstructor: 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, ...

Unbound symposium: Reshaping the Book (May 4)

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookReshaping the BookParticipants: Gita Manaktala (MIT Press), Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (SocialBook) Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media ...

Unbound symposium: The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök ...

Unbound symposium: The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök (May 3)

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookThe Xenotext, So Far with Christian BökWe started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who has striven for ten years to engineer an ...

Unbound symposium: Unbinding the Book (May 4)

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookUnbinding the BookParticipants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT ...

BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch ...

BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch Library of ...

Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning Guest curator: Samuel Ray Jacobson, MIT SMArchS ’13, History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art On view April 20-June 10, 2012 Video for the exhibit created in conjunction with the symposium ...

Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum

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Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum

A video of Clearly Impossible, an installation by Zhe Huang and Yao Zhang. The installation was originally part of a larger exhibition at the MIT Museum called Ways of Seeing. It will be up at the museum until May 25, 2012. Sponsored by Florcraft, Clearly Impossible is a MIT Museum Studio ...

ACT Lecture | Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: ...

ACT Lecture | Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor 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 ...

Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012

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Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012

April 26, 2012 Technology in Stagecraft and StorytellingRobert Lepage in dialogue with Peter Gelb, General Manager, Metropolitan Opera Robert Lepage is the 2012 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts recipient. This event offered a fascinating glimpse into Lepage's ...

Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel

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Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel

Panel Discussion: The Science of IllusionWednesday, April 25, 2012Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Science Festival Can you imagine the science behind an invisibility cloak? What about a hovering hologram? The Science of Illusion pushes beyond the boundaries of the real and provides ...

The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts - Robert Lepage

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The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts - Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage: 2012 Recipient Multidisciplinary Performance and Media ArtistThe Council for the Arts at MIT is pleased to announce that Robert Lepage is the recipient of the 2012 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, which includes an $80,000 cash prize and a ...

Awakening: Jamshied Sharifi with the MIT Wind Ensemble

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Awakening: Jamshied Sharifi with the MIT Wind Ensemble

Jamshied Sharifi was commissioned by the MIT Wind Ensemble to create an extended composition that recognizes the Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab World that began in December 2010. The piece uses ...

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