UP: The Umbrella Project @ MIT

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.

Knut Åsdam: The Long Gaze, The Short Gaze

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

Simin Farkhondeh: Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change

Simin Farkhondeh is an award winning filmmaker, artist, educator and activist. From 1995 to 2003 she produced and directed the acclaimed monthly TV show Labor at the Crossroads. Her films have been screened at the Whitney Biennial, Margaret Mead Film Festival, and ...

Knut Åsdam: The Long Gaze, The Short Gaze

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?

John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul: Considering The Stuart Hall Project

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 ...

Arthur Jafa: APEX_TNEG

Arthur Jafa is the director of Slowly This (1995), Tree (1999), and Deshotten 1.0 (2009). His cinematographic work includes Daughters of the Dust (1991), for which he won the cinematography award at Sundance Film Festival in 1992; John Akomfrah’s Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993); and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

ACT Lecture | Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and Simulations

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 ...

Shun Kanda & Jim Wescoat: MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative

Keynote: Shun Kanda, Senior Lecturer, MIT (USA) James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor, MIT (USA) Respondent: Jegan Vincent de Paul, ACT Lecturer, MIT (USA) In the aftermath of the disaster suffered in Japan, MIT launched the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a multi-year ...

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

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.

Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Video Artist

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.

Gennifer Weisenfeld, Selling Shiseido

Stella McGregor: Ploughshares from Swords - Social Sculpture and Cultural ...

11/07/2011 Stella McGregor, Director, Urbano Project (USA) Ploughshares from Swords - Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency Respondent: Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA) How does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises ...