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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

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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Visionaries: Tod Machover

WBUR's Visionaries series featured Tod Machover of the MIT Media Lab, and his use of music in therapy for emotionally and physically challenged individuals.

Glenn Adamson: Curating Postmodernism

Glenn Adamson is the Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He leads the Research Department’s activities, working closely with colleagues within the museum and in collaboration with scholars and institutions worldwide. He holds a PhD in art history from Yale University, and ...

ACT Lecture | Gloria Sutton: Playback

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 ...

ACT Lecture | Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions ...

ACT Lecture | Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and ...

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 ...

An Interview with Professor Philip Freelon about "REACH"

An interview with MIT Professor Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH", showing in the Wolk Gallery from February 15 - June 8, 2012.

European Short Film Festival: Interview with Ute Dilger, ...

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European Short Film Festival: Interview with Ute Dilger, Academy of Media ...

Welcome to the 8th Annual European Short Film Festival at MIT.

Phil Freelon discusses "REACH"

An interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"

An interview with Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH," showing in the Wolk Gallery from Feb. 15 to June 8, 2012

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Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop

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Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop

Robert Lepage visited MIT on Sunday, Feb. 12, to initiate a collaborative workshop with MIT students and launch the class 21M.805, Performance and Design Practicum.

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