The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts - Robert Lepage
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 ...
The Art of Science Communication
The Art of Science Communication
10/14/2010 5:30 PM 46Alan Alda, Actor and WriterDescription: You wouldn't know that Alan Alda felt nervous in advance of addressing this audience of neuroscientists. In his trademark style, Alda chats up the crowd like an old friend, sharing anecdotes involving one of his great pursuits: "I ...
Technology Day 1994 - "For the Wonder of it All: The Arts ...
Technology Day 1994 - "For the Wonder of it All: The Arts at MIT"
MIT's Technology Day 1994 titled "For the the Wonder of it All: the Arts at MIT" takes place on June 3, 1994, and features the following presentations: Philip Morrison on "Art and Science;" I. M. Pei '40 and William Mitchell on "I. M. Pei Recent Work;" Richard Polich ...
Visiting Artist at MIT: Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan, Visiting Artist at MIT 2009-2010
From 2009-2010, artist Tavares Strachan participated in a residency project at MIT organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan
From 2009 -2010, artist Tavares Strachan participated in a residency project at MIT organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Strachan collaborated with MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Department of Mechanical Engineering's 3D Optical Systems Group, and the MIT Sea ...
Suzanne Seitinger: LightBridge at FAST Light 2011
Suzanne Seitinger: LightBridge at FAST Light 2011
In 1916, MIT crossed the river from its original location in Boston's Back Bay to Cambridge, taking up residence on the banks of the Charles. Since then, generations of students have trekked across the bridge, including Oliver Smoot and his fraternity brothers, who ...
Stu Puts Stephen on Notice
Stu Puts Stephen on Notice
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.
Stella McGregor: Ploughshares from Swords - Social ...
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 ...
Spider silk makes music
Spider silk makes music
An ear for music, it turns out, might be a key to making structural improvements in synthetic materials.
SHASS's 50th anniversary celebration
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 50th Anniversary ...
The 50th anniversary celebration for arts and humanities programs at MIT featured several symposia and a medal ceremony held on Oct. 6-7, 2000.
Samuel Thompson's Personal Story
Samuel Thompson's Personal Story
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.
Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'
Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'
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 ...
McDermott Award winner Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage: Multidisciplinary Performance and Media Artist
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.
Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop
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.
Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012
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 ...
Robert Darnton on Tristram Shandy - Communications Forum
Robert Darnton on Tristram Shandy - Communications Forum
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 ...
Ricardo Dominguez - Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, ...
Ricardo Dominguez - Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions ...
03/28/11 Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology? Ricardo Dominguez, artist, activist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD Respondent: Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media Ricardo Dominguez is ...
Reinventing the Kennedy Center
Reinventing the Kennedy Center
11/03/2005 e51-345Michael Kaiser, SM '77, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsDescription: Running a high-profile arts organization can be a punishing profession. When Michael Kaiser arrived in London to take over the financially ailing Royal Opera House in 1998, one ...
Professor Meejin Yoon on FAST Light
Professor Meejin Yoon on FAST Light, MIT Festival of Art, Science and ...
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.
Folding fiends: MIT's Origami Club
OrigaMIT: MIT's Origami Club
OrigaMIT is MIT's original origami club, which exists to promote, practice and teach origami folding, analysis and design.