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DJ Turntable. Credit Philip Tan.
DJ Turntable. Credit Philip Tan.

Take a DJ Class this IAP

DJ Class Offerings in IAP 2020   How DJs Invented Hip-Hop: The Rise and Rise of Turntables in Rap Music January 6–9, 13 & 14, 2020 / 1-3pm (6 sessions) MIT Building W97, Room 160 Though rappers get most of … Continued

Being Material, MIT Press, 2019. Credit: HErickson/MIT CAST.
Being Material, MIT Press, 2019. Credit: HErickson/MIT CAST.

Being Material, an Introduction

By Marie-Pier Boucher, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill, and Evan Ziporyn The following excerpt is from the publication Being Material (2019 MIT Press).   At the intersection of art, science, and technology, the book Being Material … Continued

Shannon Rose McAuliffe.
Shannon Rose McAuliffe.

Shannon Rose McAuliffe Announced the New Manager of MIT Student Art Programs

The MIT Student Arts Programs offers programs, resources, and opportunities in the arts for all MIT students, regardless of discipline. The programs support the artistic practice of both undergraduate and graduate students by providing access to exhibition space, community, funding, … Continued

Council for the Arts at MIT Director Andrea Volpe
Council for the Arts at MIT Director Andrea Volpe

Council for the Arts at MIT welcomes Andrea Volpe as its new director

The Arts at MIT is pleased to announce Andrea Volpe as the director of the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT).

Bat Out of Hell, Directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Specular.
Bat Out of Hell, Directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Specular.

Jay Schieb’s Bat Out of Hell

MIT Theater Arts professor Jay Schieb directs Bat Out of Hell, a new multimedia musical, which premiered at the Manchester Opera House in March 2017 and ran in Manchester through April 8, 2017. It moved on to the London Coliseum … Continued

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Q&A: Evan Ziporyn on Music Visionary Alvin Lucier

Composer and MIT professor discusses the enduring legacy of Visiting Artist Alvin Lucier.

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Image: Vik Muniz at MIT. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.

Made at MIT

The New York Times: “At MIT, Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art” The Center for Art, Science & Technology “has revitalized an MIT model begun in the late 1960s of bringing in artists to humanize technology and create more expansive-thinking … Continued

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Ellen Harris, MIT Music and Theater Arts Class of 1949 Professor of Music Emeritus and President of the American Musicological Society.

Nicolas Slonimsky Award to Ellen Harris

Ellen T. Harris, MIT Music and Theater Arts Class of 1949 Professor of Music Emeritus and President of the American Musicological Society, received The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the concert music field for her book George Frideric Handel: A … Continued

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MIT Named World’s Top University for Architecture

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world’s best university for architecture, according to new global rankings.

July 23, 2015
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Growing Fractal Jewelry in a Digital Garden

With nature as their guide, design studio Nervous System, a.k.a. Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, has just launched a line of jewelry called Floraform that grows with the same differential growth you see in kale, iris flowers, jellyfish legs, and … Continued

June 23, 2015
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Obama women, MIT’s Joan Jonas meet up in Venice

Joan Jonas, the professor emerita at MIT who’s representing the United States at the Venice Biennale, was visited Saturday by first lady Michelle Obama, her daughters, Sasha and Malia, and her mother, Marian Robinson.

June 23, 2015

9 Art Events To Attend In New York City This Week

Tomas Saraceno, who holds an ongoing residency at MIT, has exhibited work alongside that of artists like Andy Warhol; this show, however, is dedicated to his work alone.

March 24, 2015
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What Bacteria And Smell Have To Do With Feminism Today

Korean-born, American-based Yi is currently in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she’s been working with synthetic biologists in the hopes of creating a superbacterium.

March 20, 2015
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The Sights (and Smells) of Anicka Yi’s Bacteria Art Show

Reducing women to bacteria samples initially seems odd, as does the choice to use this live material as the fabric of a microcosmic female network. However, as Yi’s collaborator on the piece, MIT synthetic biologist and bacteria expert Tal Danino, clarified in a … Continued

March 17, 2015
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Paul Ha Raises the Cultural Profile at M.I.T.

“Paul has been on mission getting students and faculty over to the List and building up its reputation,” said Philip S. Khoury, associate provost in charge of the arts at M.I.T.

March 16, 2015
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Scent of 100 Women: Artist Anicka Yi on Her New Viral Feminism Campaign at the Kitchen

For Anicka Yi, the studio is a giant—and often pungent—petri dish. As an official visiting artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yi has been collaborating with synthetic biologists on projects that extend her futuristic sculptures into the realms of science … Continued

March 13, 2015
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Concert Review: Of All the Flowers: Songs of the Middle Ages

The concert reminded me that you don’t have to understand what a person is saying (or in this case, singing) to know that it is beautiful. In fact, there is something almost spiritual about hearing something graceful and elegant that … Continued

March 12, 2015
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List Visual Arts Center receives $200,000 gift

The MIT List Visual Arts Center has received a gift of $200,000 from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in support of Joan Jonas’s presentation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

March 11, 2015
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Anicka Yi at The Kitchen

The thriving bacterium, which Yi nurtured with the help of MIT synthetic biologist Tal Danino, is a budding contaminant, a collective, germy growth.

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