Alternative Process Photography
Alternative Process Photography
A brief video tour of the Student Art Association's Alternative Process Photography class. For more information, visit the SAA website.
An Evening with Video Artist Bill Viola
An Evening with Video Artist Bill Viola
03/10/2009 6:30 PM 10"250Bill ViolaDescription: Bill Violadims the lights in MIT's Room 10"250, and begins to talk of life, death and all that lies between, leaving the realm of classroom and entering a place of potential enlightenment. Weaving together his video art, personal anecdotes, ...
An interview with Neil Gaiman
An interview with Neil Gaiman
The bestselling author, screenwriter and comics luminary was interviewed by Henry Jenkins as part of the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture in 2008.
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
An Interview with Professor Philip Freelon about "REACH"
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.
Ana Miljacki & Nomeda Urbonas - Protest City
Ana Miljacki & Nomeda Urbonas - Protest City
November 2, 2009. Architect and architecture theorist Ana Miljacki speaks about her project Classes, Masses, Crowds. Representing The Collective Body and The Myth of Direct Knowledge. Miljacki is an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Architecture. Nomeda ...
Angus Boulton - Fractured City
Angus Boulton - Fractured City
November 9, 2009. Berlin-based English photographer Angus Boulton talks about his photo series Richtung Berlin currently on view at the Wolk Gallery in MIT's Department of Architecture. This 'Becoming Berlin' event is collaboration between the MIT Museum and the MIT Visual Arts Program on the ...
Antoni Muntadas - Public City
Antoni Muntadas - Public City
October 19, 2009. Artist Muntadas investigates notions of 'City' and 'public.' Is there still a public space? Is the city a place for interventions? City authorities and the private sector provide surveillance and control. Yet it is the city dwellers who should make critical decisions over ...
Arensky Piano Trio - MIT Chamber Music
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, ...
Arts @ MIT
Arts @ MIT
MIT students, faculty, and administrators discuss and demonstrate how the arts add to the tapestry of life on campus.
Attila Csorgo: Turning Out the Space
Attila Csorgo: Turning Out the Space
04/04/11 Turning Out the Space Attila Csorgo, artist, Budapest, Hungary Respondent: Thomas D. Trummer, Siemens Stiftung Curator of Visual Arts? Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his work Peeled Spaces. Another piece, Distorted Spaces, is ...
Awakening: Jamshied Sharifi with the MIT Wind Ensemble
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 ...
Bellona, Destroyer of Cities (excerpt 5 min)
Bellona, Destroyer of Cities (excerpt 5 min)
Tickets are on sale now in both Paris and in Boston for "Bellona, Destroyer of Cities" a featured presentation of the MIT 150th, Festival of Art Science and Technology. Adapted and Directed by Jay Scheib from Samuel R. Delany's Science Fiction masterwork "Dhalgren" -- ...
Bibliodoptera
Bibliodoptera
Bibliodoptera, by Peter Torpey and Elena Jessop, graduate students in Media Arts and Sciences Location: Corridor along the Hayden Library Courtyard (map) A cloud of vellum butterflies, newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's diverse library pages, floats above in the corridor between the ...
Bill Viola
Bill Viola
Bill Viola talks about his experiences during his 2009 Eugene McDermott Arts Award Residency at MIT, including computational photography and video, the Opera of the Future Group, and the end of the optical age. Video funded by the MIT Council for the Arts.
Bill Viola at MIT
Bill Viola at MIT
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
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 ...
Libya: War and its Aftermath
Center for International Studies Starr Forum — Libya: War and its ...
Michael Brown documented the face of battle in Libya using a camera phone, challenging the standard script for war reportage.
Charles J. Connick and MIT
Charles J. Connick and MIT
In 2008, the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation generously donated its collection to the MIT Libraries.
Christoph Schaefer - Factory City
Christoph Schaefer - Factory City
September 28, 2009. The City is our Factory: Politics of desire and the production of urban spaces between Grande Latte and Park Fiction. In the new urban fabric, subcultures, cultural workers, musicians and artists play a significant role as producers of collective spaces, places shaped by ...