Laurent Grasso: Science & Fictions

Science & Fictions Laurent Grasso, artist, Paris, France? Respondent: Stefan Helmreich, MIT Professor of Anthropology Laurent Grasso will discuss the ideas and processes behind his HAARP project (High Frequency Active Auroral research) eponymous of a research base in Gakona, Alaska. One ...

Learning Communities: MAS (Media Arts and Sciences)

LightBridge

LightBridge is a 10,000 pixel dynamic display created for the FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology in celebration of MIT's 150th anniversary.

Marketing the Arts: The Secret Weapon

06/09/2007 2:00 PM Michael Kaiser, SM '77, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsDescription: If anyone deserves the moniker of 'arts miracle worker', it's Michael Kaiser. He's turned around any number of blue ribbon organizations teetering on the edge of bankruptcy -- from ...

Matthew Day Jackson at MIT, 2009

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."

Matthew Day Jackson on "The Immeasurable Distance"

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

Mendelssohn Piano Trio - MIT Chamber Music

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, ...

Mike Bonanno - Propaganda City

October 26, 2009. The activist collective The Yes Men transformed New York city for a day through a tactical media intervention. A hoax print of the New York Times was massively distributed throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign in 2008. The Yes Men have an unusual ...

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 celebrates 50 years of jazz

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

MIT Communiations Forum: The Culture Beat and New Media

Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive.

MIT Glass Lab documentary

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

MIT Visualizing Cultures: Andrew Gordon on the Hibiya Riot

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

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

MIT Wind Ensemble: "Awakening" I

MIT Wind Ensemble playing Jamshied Sharifi's "Awakening"