UP: The Umbrella Project @ MIT

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:22:26 GMT

On May 19, 2013, 250 members of the MIT community gathered on Jack Barry Field with LED outfitted umbrellas as part of UP: The Umbrella Project.

MIT's Student Loan Art Program

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:33:59 GMT

Through this popular annual loan program, individual students and student groups may borrow original works of art from the collection for their private rooms and communal spaces.

Awakening

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:42:07 GMT

This 30-minute documentary features the March 2012 premiere of "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," by composer Jamshied Sharifi '83.

Andy Cavatorta

Tue, 28 May 2013 14:33:27 GMT

Robot instrument builder and MIT alum Andy Cavatorta discussed the creative process as part of CAST's 2013 "Music and Technology" seminar series.

For more information: http://arts.mit.edu/cast/sss-lecturedemonstrations/

Knut Åsdam: The Long Gaze, The Short Gaze

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:10:17 GMT

Knut Åsdam is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the subjectivity of social structures, history, language, struggle and the body.

Jifei Ou, "Maidmade"

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:31:23 GMT

MIT student Jifei Ou's project for the interdisciplinary course, "Design Across Scales." For this assignment, students were asked to "make something that helps you make something" as they creatively explored the tools, techniques, and technologies essential to the act of fabrication.

Kayser Markus, "Fiber Tool"

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:31:23 GMT

MIT student Kayser Markus' "Fiber Tool" project for the interdisciplinary course, "Design Across Scales." For this assignment, students were asked to "make something that helps you make something" as they creatively explored the tools, techniques, and technologies essential to the act of fabrication.

Vivian Dien: 'Empanada Mama'

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:31:23 GMT

MIT student Vivian Dien's "Empanada Mama" project for the interdisciplinary course, "Design Across Scales." For this assignment, students were asked to "make something that helps you make something" as they creatively explored the tools, techniques and technologies essential to the act of fabrication.

Clayton Dinh: 'Paint Tool'

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:31:26 GMT

MIT student Clayton Dinh's "Paint Tool" project for the interdisciplinary course, "Design Across Scales." For this assignment, students were asked to "make something that helps you make something" as they creatively explored the tools, techniques and technologies essential to the act of fabrication.

Pantograph

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:31:26 GMT

MIT student Sofia Brueckner's "pantograph" for the interdisciplinary course, "Design Across Scales." For this assignment, students were asked to "make something that helps you make something" as they creatively explored the tools, techniques, and technologies essential to the act of fabrication.

Two Lips Performance

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:30:45 GMT

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.

John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul: Considering The Stuart Hall Project

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:30:48 GMT

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 photographs and music, Akomfrah’s portrayal of Hall's life, work and cultural impact explores issues of identity, cultural acceptance, immigration and assimilation. In this lecture, the filmmakers reflected on the film’s cultural and technological context.

OrigaMIT: MIT's Origami Club

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:06:20 GMT

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

Mendelssohn Piano Trio - MIT Chamber Music

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:30:48 GMT

MIT students perform the Piano String Trio No. 1 in D Minor composed by Felix Mendelssohn. Bravo to violinist Alwina Liu, cellist Kamilla Tekiela, and pianist Forest Tong. And thanks to their coach Marcus Thompson.

Four movements: Allegro, Andante, Scherzo, and Finale.

MIT Chamber Society. Killian Hall, Dec. 2012.

Samuel Thompson's Personal Story

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:31:24 GMT

Samuel Thompson brings a sense of play to his science research that he traces back to his love of the performing arts and his early exposure to science as a child.

Veni Creator Spiritus

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:30:44 GMT

Emmanuel Music

Craig Smith, music director

Recorded in concert at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass.

Recorded by Thomas Stephenson, Emmanuel Audio Recording

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

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:04:35 GMT

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 critical research on social and political issues as well as participatory and collaborative projects.

The “parasitism” of his work is a subtle deconstruction of the horizon of everyday and ruthless challenges to the systems that are used to establish the center, domination and power.

Pogačar recently edited a book, "CODE:RED," on self-organization of urban minorities, informal economies and global sex work. He is the founding and managing director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute (established in 1998), a non-profit cultural institution that operates the P74 Centre and Gallery and the KAPSULA bookshop/project space in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tadej Pogačar is the György Kepes research fellow at ACT for fall 2012.

MIT celebrates 50 years of jazz

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:30:12 GMT

A celebration of a half-century of jazz at MIT.

Arensky Piano Trio - MIT Chamber Music

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:30:13 GMT

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, December, 2012

Junot Díaz on 'Moyers & Company'

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:54:32 GMT

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

Krista Lynes: Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:30:10 GMT

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 apparatus and subject in a new kind of materialism governed by measurement, a machinic time closer to the chronometer than the cinema. This produced a “kaleidoscopic” image of distinct streams whose historicism was revealed by the very organization of videographic space and time. Professor Lynes’s talk will extend Jameson’s insights to questions of representation and cultural production under the current crises and failures of market structures in the 21st century, and the (speculative, generative) co-incidences between protest movements around the globe, focusing specifically on artworks that juxtapose chronometric and cinematic time.

Krista Lynes’ writing has been included in the journals Signs and Third Text, as well as the anthology Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (2011). Her book, Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, is forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillan’s “Global Cinema” series in 2013.

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

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:30:10 GMT

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 screen as a site of radical gathering; anti-colonial and post-colonial theory; and contemporary film and video art.

Gray co-edited a special issue of Third Text entitled “The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography” and published articles in numerous scholarly and artistic publications. She is currently working on the book The Vanguard of the World: Cinemas of the African Revolution.

In addition to her teaching position at Goldsmith College, Gray is also a research tutor in the Curating Contemporary Art program at the Royal College of Art, UK.

New Methods, New Markets for Independent Film (CMS Colloquium)

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:06:49 GMT

Recorded 12/6/12

MIT Glass Lab Musical Instruments

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:30:16 GMT

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 Saraceno

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:30:17 GMT

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

Spider silk makes music

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:06:05 GMT

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

The Listening Room and music at MIT

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:30:00 GMT

The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences' Web-based collection showcases the Institute’s longstanding engagement with music.

Council for the Arts at MIT turns 40

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:30:17 GMT

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

How to communicate science visually

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:30:12 GMT

Sometimes color helps. Sometimes it just gets in the way, says MIT's Felice Frankel

Junot Diaz Book Reading

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:05:35 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MIT Professor of Writing, Junot Díaz, reads from his new book This is How You Lose Her.

Advances in Architectural Geometry - MIT

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:05:28 GMT

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 using geometrical principles to approach current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor. As part of a presentation on the most advanced and challenging research in the field, the video spotlights the groundbreaking technologies, materials, and processes produced at MIT. Curated by Skylar Tibbits.

Exhibited work and comments by: Material: John Fernandez Associate Professor, Building Technology Faculty, Department of Architecture Principal and Founder of LFArc and Urban Metabolism Group Scale: Skylar Tibbits Lecturer, Design Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT Principal and Founder of SJET LLC Prototype: William O'Brien Jr. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture Principal, William O'Brien Jr. LLC Movement: Joel Lamere Assistant Professor, Design Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT Principal and Founder of GLD Modules: Nader Tehrani Department Chair, Department of Architecture, MIT Principal and Founder of NADAA Interaction: Meejin Yoon Associate Professor, Design, Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT Principal and Founder of Howeler + Yoon/MY Studio Innovation: Sheila Kennedy Professor of Practice, Design Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT Principal and Founder of Kennedy & Violich, www.kvarch.net Digital: Mark Goulthorpe Associate Professor, Design, Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT Principal and Founder of dECOi Architects, HypoSurface Corp and Zero+

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:52:12 GMT

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

21L.011 The Film Experience: Italian Neorealism: De Sica and The Bicycle Thief Part 1.

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:08:47 GMT

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 film, emphasizing the unique properties of the movie house and the motion picture camera, the historical evolution of the film medium, and the intrinsic artistic qualities of individual films. The primary focus is on American cinema, but secondary attention is paid to works drawn from other great national traditions, such as France, Italy, and Japan. The syllabus includes such directors as Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, Renoir, Ford, Hitchcock, Altman, De Sica, and Fellini.

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-011F07

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Four

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:11:22 GMT

MIT Visualizing Cultures

Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s

Presented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate University

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part One

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:10:14 GMT

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Two

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:10:14 GMT

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Three

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:30:16 GMT

Civic Media Lunch: "ZUMIX"

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:30:10 GMT

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 youth with the tools necessary to reach their full potential, while creating a safe space for youth to explore who they are and who they want to be. Through community events, ZUMIX provides access to top-quality arts experiences for a low-income, under-served neighborhood.

Madeleine Steczynski, Co-Founder and Executive Director, is an East Boston resident. She founded ZUMIX in 1991 in response to the worst year of violence in the City of Boston's history. Together with ZUMIX's Board of Directors and Youth Advisory Board, she has grown ZUMIX from a kitchen table project into a vital East Boston community institution. As an advocate for the arts, Madeleine has served on the Executive Committee for East Boston Healthy Boston Coalition; was one of the founding members of Cultural Connections, a three-year effort to integrate arts as part of a Sustainable Community initiative funded by The PEW Charitable Trust; and served as an Artistic Fellow for The Boston Foundation’s Arts and Audiences Initiative. n 2009 she successfully completed a $4.6 million dollar capital campaign and moved ZUMIX into its new home. In 2011 Madeleine started a 3-year learning journey as a prestigious Barr Fellow. Madeleine attended Boston College, the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, and the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University.

Elena Botkin-Levy, ZUMIX Radio Coordinator, is a radio producer, educator and enthusiast. She started producing radio as a teenager, co-founding RadioActive Youth — a youth-run radio program in Western Massachusetts. Since then she has continued to deepen her love of radio. At WMUA 91.1FM in Amherst, she facilitated and engineered a local community radio-programming block. As a coordinator with the Prometheus Radio Project, Elena organized with community radio stations across the country and she traveled to Kenya to partner with international community radio organizers. She has produced radio documentaries and news for national broadcast. Her radio work has aired on Making Contact, Free Speech Radio News, and Crosscurrents. In Oakland, California, Elena coordinated and produced radio programs with the National Radio Project. She also taught radio production to youth at outLoud Radio in San Francisco.

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

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:30:10 GMT

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 photography in 19th-century Japan.

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Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Read more: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html

John Dower, Visualizing the Russo-Japanese War

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:30:09 GMT

MIT Visualizing Cultures

Visualizing the Russo-Japanese War
3/5/12

Presented by John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, MIT

John Dower, Professor of Japanese history, received his Ph.D. in 1972 in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University. Professor Dower's interests lie in modern Japanese history and US-Japan relations. He also has broken new ground through his scholarly use of visual materials and other expressions of popular culture in reexamining Japanese and US-Asian history. His numerous publications include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, which was honored with several prizes; Empire and Aftermath, a study of the life and times of the diplomat and later prime minister Yoshida Shigeru; and Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. He also was the executive producer of a documentary film entitled Hellfire -- A Journey from Hiroshima, which was nominated in 1988 for an Academy Award.

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Robert Darnton on Tristram Shandy - Communications Forum

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:03:34 GMT

A clip from "Books and Libraries in the Digital Age," a conversation between Robert Darnton and David Thorburn held October 16, 2008.

A pioneering scholar of the Enlightenment and of the history of the book, Robert Darnton has written extensively on the impact of digital technologies on the culture of print and on the responsibilities of libraries in the computer age. In this Forum, Darnton will discuss the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other, strengthening and transforming the world of learning.

Robert Darnton is the director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. A former Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, his books include The Business of the Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History, and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France.

Moderator: David Thorburn is professor of literature and director of the Communications Forum at MIT. He is the author of Conrad’s Romanticism, and, most recently, co-editor of Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition.

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

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:03:07 GMT

Class 1: Introduction: Television and Cultural Study
Instructor: David Thorburn

The 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 anthropological, literary, and cinematic perspectives. The course focuses on prime-time commercial broadcasting, the medium's technological and economic history, and theoretical perspectives. There is much required viewing as well as readings in media theory and cultural interpretation.

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-432S03

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

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:03:07 GMT

Class 3: Television As A Cultural Form
Instructor: David Thorburn

The 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 anthropological, literary, and cinematic perspectives. The course focuses on prime-time commercial broadcasting, the medium's technological and economic history, and theoretical perspectives. There is much required viewing as well as readings in media theory and cultural interpretation.

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-432S03

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:03:28 GMT

Unbound symposium: Reshaping the Book (May 4)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
Reshaping the Book

Participants: Gita Manaktala (MIT Press), Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (SocialBook)
Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies)

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

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

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök

We 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 unkillable bacterium so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem in its genome, but also an operant machine for writing a poem in response–a poem that might, in fact, outlive terrestrial civilization. Bök was introduced by Nick Montfort, and student readers Aimee Harrison and Alvin Mwijuka shared their work.

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Unbound symposium: Unbinding the Book (May 4)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
Unbinding the Book

Participants: 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 Writing and Humanistic Studies)

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning, 1960-present

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:03:20 GMT

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 “Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book”, BOOKISH explores the means and methods through which artist books challenge the book as traditionally conceived. By their selective, intentional performance and denial of normative aspects of book design, these artist-conceived objects negate such norms while sustaining their worth and continued relevance.

Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:12 GMT

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 project.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/studio/ways-of-seeing/index.html

ACT Lecture | Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:28 GMT

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 ‘Bifo’ Berardi has termed “semiocapitalism.” Though the attention to sound and affect is typically held to be a remedy to the excesses of the past few decades (occularcentrism, the preoccupation with discursivity, and the persistence of form, to name but a few), affect is precisely that which contemporary capitalism in its financialized form exploits as a productive force. Are the sonic and affective turns, then, actually extensions of semiocapitalism? Michael Eng’s areas of research include sound, philosophy of the image, philosophy and architecture, and post-Heideggerian aesthetic theory.

Speaker: Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio.

Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:03:08 GMT

April 26, 2012

Technology in Stagecraft and Storytelling
Robert 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 thinking, as he discussed his work with Peter Gelb, General Manager, Metropolitan Opera. The 90-minute program began with a discussion of Lepage's new production of the Ring cycle for the Metropolitan Opera but spanned Lepage's extraordinary body of work -- from film to one-man performances, Shakespeare to Peter Gabriel concerts, Cirque du Soleil productions to spectacular architectural projections. The talk included a multimedia presentation showcasing the sophisticated sets for the Ring cycle as well as many other productions, including The Image Mill, an outdoor illumination in the Québec harbor that used the surface of the Bunge grain elevators as a giant screen. The discussion of Lepage's diverse career as a multidisciplinary performance and media artist highlighted his versatility in a full range of theater craft: from directing to acting, to filmmaking and writing plays. Philip Khoury, Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History, introduced the panelists and moderated questions from the audience.

Stu Puts Stephen on Notice

Tue, 01 May 2012 21:23:59 GMT

Stu Schmill of the MIT Admissions Office puts Stephen Colbert on notice for trashing MIT during a recent interview with Richard Hersh on the Colbert Report.

Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:30:09 GMT

Panel Discussion: The Science of Illusion
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Produced 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 insights into how magical thinking drives technological innovation and the human imagination.

Multidisciplinary media and performance artist Robert Lepage, recipient of the 2012 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, has spent his distinguished career exploring technology that enhances storytelling and stagecraft, circus performance and architectural illuminations, filmmaking, urban projections, and more. Join him along with a group of MIT researchers for an evening of discussion and demonstrations about the art and science of illusion.

Panel: MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts recipient Robert Lepage; Professor George Barbastathis, Singapore Research Professor of Optics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Assistant Professor Graham Jones, MIT Anthropology; Seth Riskin, Manager, Emerging Technologies and Holography/Spatial Imaging Initiative at the MIT Museum; and moderator, John Durant, Director of the MIT Museum and Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society Program.

The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts - Robert Lepage

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:30:09 GMT

Robert Lepage: 2012 Recipient Multidisciplinary Performance and Media Artist

The 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 campus residency. Renowned as a director, filmmaker, playwright, and actor, Lepage is currently directing Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He also created two Cirque du Soleil productions and The Image Mill™, a spectacular architectural illumination and urban projection. The award celebrates innovative talents in all arts disciplines and is one of the most generous cultural honors in the U.S.

Read more: http://arts.mit.edu/mcdermott/2012-recipient/

Awakening: Jamshied Sharifi with the MIT Wind Ensemble

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:02:54 GMT

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 Arabic maqam as source material. Mr. Sharifi is composer-in-residence at MIT March 12-17, 2012, sponsored by the MIT Visiting Artist Program and Music and Theater Arts.

Program

Awakening is in three movements: I. Maghreb/Bouazizi/The Uprisings, II. Reflection: Let Each One Hear Her Own Thoughts, and III. Ahead: The Real Transformation Has Barely Begun.

Bernard, Divertissement for Winds; Copland, Variations on a Shaker Melody; Schuman, When Jesus Wept; Bernstein, Profanation from Symphony no. 1; Sharifi, Awakening, world premiere.

Jamshied Sharifi is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. Born in Topeka, Kansas to an Iranian father and an American mother, Sharifi graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in humanities, and Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston, with a degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging. At MIT and Berklee, he studied with the legendary Herb Pomeroy, who asked him at graduation to lead the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble. While in Boston, Sharifi studied piano with Charlie Banacos, and West African drumming with Godwin Agbeli and Abubakari Lunna.

Sharifi has composed the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, The Thomas Crown Affair, Muppets From Space, Footsteps in Africa, 14 Women, and for many other films and television shows. As a producer, he has made records for Mamak Khadem, Yungchen Lhamo, Susan McKeown, and Mirabai Ceiba. As an arranger, he has written for Ray Charles, Paula Cole, Dream Theater, Cee Lo Green, Reba McEntire, Mis-teeq, Matthew Morrison, Sam Moore, Smokey Robinson, and Jordin Sparks. His world-inspired debut CD, A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla, was named ‘Best World Album’ by New Age Voice magazine, and ‘Best Album of the Year’ by critic and radio host John Diliberto. In 2009 he served as an arranger for the Inaugural Concert for President Obama at Lincoln Memorial.

Sharifi recently completed the score for the third season of On The Road In America, an unscripted documentary about four young Arabs traveling in the United States. The show is currently airing in many Arab markets.

Visionaries: Tod Machover

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:27:32 GMT

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

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:30:10 GMT

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 was previously curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. Dr. Adamson co-curated (with Jane Pavitt) the exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 to 1990, which opened at the V&A in 2011. He has also written widely on craft history and theory, in such books as Thinking Through Craft (2007), The Craft Reader (2010), and The Invention of Craft (2012); and has edited numerous publications including the triannual Journal of Modern Craft, the volume Global Design History (co-edited with Giorgio Riello and Sarah Teasley, 2011), and Surface Tensions (co-edited with Victoria Kelley, 2012).

João Ribas is Curator of the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and was previously Curator at The Drawing Center, New York. His writing has appeared in numerous art and culture publications, and he is the recipient of three consecutive International Art Critics Awards for Best exhibition in a Non-Profit Space, and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. João’s recent curated exhibitions include the Otto Piene: Lichtballet installation at the List Visual Arts Center (2011), Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2011) Manon de Boer (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2011); FAX (Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 2011): Frances Stark (MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2010); and Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World (Drawing Center, 2009). He has contributed essays to numerous publications and monographs, and has been a visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations worldwide. He was previously adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

ACT Lecture | Gloria Sutton: Playback

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:02:48 GMT

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 production. This talk focuses on the institutionalization of media art with a particular emphasis on the Long Beach Museum of Art’s prescient move to set up a media art center and commission artists to create a broadcast channel to distribute their works in the early 1970s. The museum was one of the first to consider video as a collecting category, managed a thriving residency program, operated a public editing facility, and launched the “museum channel.” Gloria Sutton is a contemporary art historian and a curator. She received the Emily Hall Tremaine Award as a co-curator of How Many Billboards in 2008.

Speaker: Gloria Sutton, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston.

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

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:02:48 GMT

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 ways these may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. His projects are presented in different media such as photography, video, publications, the Internet, installations, and urban interventions. Muntadas has received numerous awards and grants, and his work has been exhibited extensively at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée d’Art Contemporaine, Montreal; Berkeley Art Museum; the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; the VI and X editions of documenta, Kassel; the Whitney Biennial of American Art, New York; and the 51st Venice Biennial. Most recently, he exhibited at NCCA in Moscow, Russia, The Bronx Museum, and his show Muntadas: Entre/Between, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, runs through March 2012.

Speaker: Antoni Muntadas, Professor of the Practice, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

An Interview with Professor Philip Freelon about "REACH"

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:30:09 GMT

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

An interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:30:09 GMT

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

Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:03:11 GMT

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.

MIT Wind Ensemble: "Awakening" I

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:03:37 GMT

MIT Wind Ensemble playing Jamshied Sharifi's "Awakening"

MIT Wind Ensemble: "Awakening" II

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:03:36 GMT

MIT Wind Ensemble playing Jamshied Sharifi's "Awakening"

MIT Wind Ensemble: "Awakening" III

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:03:36 GMT

MIT Wind Ensemble playing Jamshied Sharifi's "Awakening"

ACT Lecture | Taru Elfving: Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:30:07 GMT

Taru Elfving, curator and director of Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), calls into play the curatorial notion of the “dysfunctional” exhibition and its role within the larger concept of sustainability. CAA, a trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural exhibition spread across the isles of the Turku Archipelago (Baltic Sea), included over 23 international artists who researched the area’s environment and ways of life, and worked with the local community and institutions. Elfving will elaborate on the modes of collaboration between artists and curators, the ecological system as a potential generator of thinking and cultural production, and as a site of pilgrimage, as well as the potential of contemporary art as a force in cross-disciplinary research and action. Her presentation will be followed by a conversation with CAA artists Renée Green, and Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas.

Speaker: Taru Elfving, Artistic Director, Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), Finland

In conversation with:
Renée Green, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Nomeda Urbonas, ACT Fellow, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

ACT Lecture | Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and Simulations

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:03:18 GMT

Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto juxtaposes cultural material from different international communities, such as those of the Japanese Americans, Nipo-Brasiliero, Peruvian Quechua and Hollywood communities. The photographic series North South East West focuses on the erased history of American Civil War soldiers of Asian descent. Yonemoto’s collaboration with Dr. Juli Carson deals with the discovery of the real and poetic convergence between two distinct phenomena in Argentina: the site of one of the few growing glaciers in the world and one of the last regions where Lacanian psychoanalysis is practiced. Most recently, Yonemoto’s work was exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, and the St. Louis Museum of Art.

Speaker: Bruce Yonemoto, Professor of Studio Art in Video, Experimental Media, and Film Theory, University of California, Irvine.

In conversation with Stephen Prina, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge.

The Paradiso Synthesizer

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:19:34 GMT

MIT Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso's homemade analog synthesizer, probably the world's largest, is on display at the MIT Museum and streaming online.

Center for International Studies Starr Forum — Libya: War and its Aftermath

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:03:37 GMT

Michael Brown documented the face of battle in Libya using a camera phone, challenging the standard script for war reportage.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Laura Indolfi

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:15 GMT

Laura Indolfi discusses her image, "Form and Function: Using a Curved Surface to Change Cell Behavior," one of 10 winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/indolfi.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Peter DeMuth

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:15 GMT

Peter DeMuth discusses his image, "Immuno Forest: Microneedles for Delivering Vaccines into the Skin," one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/demuth.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Praneeth Namburi

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:15 GMT

Praneeth Namburi discusses his image, "Neural Mapping: Understanding How the Cerebellum is Wired," one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/namburi.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Rakesh Karmacharya

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:15 GMT

Rakesh Karmacharya discusses his image, "Modeling the Mind: Neurons Derived from Skin Cells," one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/karmacharya.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Salil Desai

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:15 GMT

Salil Desai discusses his image, "Motor Control:How does a Cancer Cell Power its Movement?" one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards.

See the image at http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/desai.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winners: Ni Ji

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:15 GMT

Ni Ji discusses her image, "Breaking Rank: How Identical Cells Take on Different Fates," one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/ji.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Benjamin Larson

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:14 GMT

Benjamin Larson discusses his image, "Building a New Hip: Cartilage Grown on a Woven Polymer," one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/larson.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Brett Zani

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:14 GMT

Brett Zani discusses his image, "Crossing Over: Cells Move Through an Epithelial Bridge," one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/zani.

2012 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Christopher Turner

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:03:14 GMT

Christopher Turner discusses his image, "Building a Bio-Highway: How Does a Lymphatic Vessel Develop?" one of ten winners of the 2012 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/2012/turner.

What it means to be a Chorallarie!

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:30:06 GMT

The Chorallaries are MIT’s oldest coed a cappella group, started over January term in the ’76-’77 school year. Read more at: http://choral.scripts.mit.edu/wp/

John Dower, Japan in the Modern World 2/15/12

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:30:07 GMT

Part of a two-day conference that consisted of image-driven presentations addressing both Asian and non-Asian representations of 19th and 20th-century developments in the history of East and Southeast Asia.

MIT Glass Lab documentary

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:03:05 GMT

A documentary originally produced by the MIT Glass Lab and edited for a 2012 MIT Libraries' exhibition on Glass at MIT.

ACT Lecture | Michael Corris: What Do Artists Know?

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:03:05 GMT

Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, discusses how some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation.

John Dower, Asia in the Modern World

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:03:05 GMT

Bill Viola at MIT

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:15 GMT

Internationally renowned video artist Bill Viola was selected by MIT's Council for the Arts as the recipient of the 2009 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts

The Fiber Cloud, MIT Mobile Experience Lab

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:15 GMT

The Fiber Cloud is an organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers.

Tavares Strachan, Visiting Artist at MIT 2009-2010

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:14 GMT

From 2009-2010, artist Tavares Strachan participated in a residency project at MIT organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Evan Ziporyn on the New Music Marathon at MIT, 2011

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:13 GMT

Evan Ziporyn introducing the New Music Marathon at MIT which took place during the 2011 MIT Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST).

Robert Lepage: Multidisciplinary Performance and Media Artist

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:13 GMT

Robert Lepage has been named the recipient of the 2012 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, which includes an $80,000 cash prize and a campus residency.

Trevor Paglen, Artist-Writer-Provocateur at MIT September 2011

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:12 GMT

MIT visiting artist Trevor Paglen has earned international renown for uniting disparate worlds to create works that explore and document hidden worlds.

Aaron Koblin at MIT 2010-2011

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:11 GMT

Koblin discusses data trails and our changing relationship with data.

Highlights from the Festival of Art, Science and Technology

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:10 GMT

FAST was a prominent feature of the MIT150 events, a festival celebrating MIT's unique confluence of Art, Science and Technology.

Gustavo Dudamel, 2010 Recipient of McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:09 GMT

Gustavo Dudamel's infectious energy and exceptional artistry have made him one of the most sought-after conductors by orchestras and opera companies around the world.

Tod Machover on the Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST) 2011

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:09 GMT

MIT Professor Tod Machover, Director of FAST, discusses the Festival of Art, Science and Technology, a prominent feature of MIT's 150th celebration.

Matthew Day Jackson at MIT, 2009

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:08 GMT

Artist Matthew Day Jackson discusses the residency that led to works in the 2009 exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, "The Immeasurable Distance."

Professor Meejin Yoon on FAST Light, MIT Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:08 GMT

FAST Light, the finale event of the three-month-long Festival of Art + Science + Technology, illuminated MIT's campus and the Charles River on May 7-8, 2011.

Charles J. Connick and MIT

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:02:48 GMT

In 2008, the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation generously donated its collection to the MIT Libraries.

Alternative Process Photography

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:02:35 GMT

A brief video tour of the Student Art Association's Alternative Process Photography class. For more information, visit the SAA website.

MIT Visualizing Cultures: Andrew Gordon on the Hibiya Riot

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:30:06 GMT

Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905. Professor Andrew Gordon. Harvard University. Part of MIT Visualizing Cultures.

MIT Visualizing Cultures: Visualizing the Boxer Uprising

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:30:06 GMT

Visualizing the Boxer Uprising: A Kaleidoscopic View. PowerPoint by Ellen Sebring. Presented by Peter Perdue. Part of MIT Visualizing Cultures.

Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Video Artist

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:30:20 GMT

Excerpt from an interview with Elizabeth Anne Watkins, MS Candidate in Art, Culture and Technology. In this video Elizabeth talks about her research into time-based media.

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ACT Lecture | Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real

Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012

Stu Puts Stephen on Notice

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ACT Lecture | Gloria Sutton: Playback

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An interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"

Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop

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