Windscreen by Meejin Yoon, Associate Professor of ...
Windscreen by Meejin Yoon, Associate Professor of Architecture
Wind Screen by Meejin Yoon, Associate Professor of Architecture Location: Green Building (MIT Building 54) Installation: Installed April 2011 http://arts.mit.edu/fast/fast-installations/ Imagine a shimmering curtain of light suspended in the archway below the Green ...
Florian Dombois: Luginsland (On Art as Research)
Florian Dombois: Luginsland (On Art as Research)
02/14/11 Luginsland (On Art as Research) Florian Dombois, founder of the Y - Institute of Interdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland? Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Director and Associate Professor Luginsland (Belvedere) is an ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laurent Grasso: Science & Fictions
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 ...
Jae Rhim Lee: Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the ...
Jae Rhim Lee: Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and ...
03/14/11 Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and Other Jae Rhim Lee, artist and ACT research fellow, MIT, Cambridge MA Respondent: Nicholas A. Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy; Director, MIT Technology and Law Program ?Jae Rhim Lee's ...
Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: A Guide to Campo ...
Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: A Guide to Campo del Cielo
A Guide to Campo del Cielo Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg, artists, Buenos Aires, Argentina Respondent: Richard P. Binzel, MIT Professor of Planetary Science In 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg began working on A Guide to Campo del Cielo, a ...
Who's behind the LightBridge
Who's behind the LightBridge
LightBridge by Susanne Seitinger, researcher in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and Pol Pla, graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and the software team: Russell Cohen, Eugene Sun, Andrew Chen, Dave Lawrence, Daniel Taub, and David Xiao. Part of MIT's FAST ...
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 ...
FAST Highlights - Festival of Art, Science and Technology
FAST Highlights - Festival of Art, Science and Technology
FAST was a prominent feature of the MIT150 events, a festival celebrating MIT's unique confluence of Art, Science and Technology.
FAST: Festival of Art, Science and Technology
FAST: Festival of Art, Science and Technology recap
A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity at MIT
Nick Gelpi: Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House at FAST ...
Nick Gelpi: Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House at FAST Light 2011
A freestanding pavilion, created by flexing two dimensions into three, this house deploys a fabrication system used to create a membrane, which is simultaneously structural, functional and representational in a single act. Entirely constructed of laminated plywood, an ...
Maxwell's Dream: Paint with Light
Maxwell's Dream: Paint with Light
An art installation that allows observers to play with a magnetic field to create patterns in light.
Gustavo Dudamel Open Rehearsal (2010)
Gustavo Dudamel Open Rehearsal (2010)
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel was the recipient of the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, an award celebrating rising, innovative talents in the arts. This video features excerpts from his open rehearsal with the MIT Symphony Orchestra on April 16, 2010. Watch the entire open ...
Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas: Liquid Archive at FAST ...
Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas: Liquid Archive at FAST Light 2011
Liquid Archive, a floating, interactive artwork, imaginatively extends MIT's Killian Court beyond Memorial Drive into the Charles River, to celebrate the Institute's 150th anniversary. Consisting of an inflatable screen anchored to a floating platform, it provides a ...
Otto Piene: SKY Event at FAST Light 2011
Otto Piene: SKY Event at FAST Light 2011
Rising above the Great Dome of MIT, immense inflatable stars soared over Killian Court on the evening of May 7 during FAST Light, the culminating event of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology. The sculptures celebrated - and incorporated - the ...
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 ...
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.
IceWall
IceWall - a Festival of Arts, Science and Technology Installation
MIT 150 celebrated past innovation and achievement, while acting as a catalyst for the next generation. In this spirit, IceWall, part of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology, plants a new future, even as its own seemingly fades away.
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 ...