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For Your Edification and Enjoyment: A Guide to Arts IAPS 2019

2019 IAP ARTS COURSES Dig into the history of Kanye West. Push the boundaries of 3D video. Share your favorite poem. Play the flute. Experiment with holography. Paint. Draw. Dance. Sculpt. Print. Exercise your mind and explore your inner artist … Continued

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A 28-year-old MIT doctoral student is writing his first movie

Humorist Jonny Sun, a PhD candidate at MIT and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, has had a very busy year.

November 29, 2018

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5 Things To Do This Weekend, From A Holiday Classic To A Holiday Horror Story

The MIT List Center is paying homage to a man whose name you might not know, but whose multimedia work probably influences a lot of the culture you love.

November 29, 2018

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MIT Receives Lead Gift for New Music Building

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a lead gift from a longtime supporter for a new state-of-the-art music building.

November 27, 2018

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Emerging Media and Future Realities at Getting Real

Mixed reality, artificial intelligence and other innovations are rapidly shifting the landscape of media and society.

November 26, 2018

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Here, there, and everywhere

Visit Cambridge’s MIT Museum to learn how one of the university’s earliest graduates affected the boatbuilding industry and created six America’s Cup winners, among other innovative vessels.

November 20, 2018

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Machover Imagines Beautiful Mountain

At the world premiere of Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood, one could glimpse great hope even as the namesake composer’s life intersected with some of the most traumatic and violent human atrocities of the 20th century.

November 17, 2018

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Joan Jonas Commission for 2015 Venice Biennale to Make U.S. Premiere in San Francisco

They Come to Us Without a Word, the multimedia installation created by Joan Jonas for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, will get its American premiere with a three-month run at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & … Continued

November 15, 2018

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From Robots To Schoenberg: MIT Opera Of The Future Composer Tod Machover Evolves Tradition With Tech

It’s been a long journey from Machover’s expansive imagination to the stage.

November 14, 2018

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Jonny Sun’s New Art Project Is a Sitcom, Starring You

The Twitter celebrity’s Laughing Room features a laugh track powered by artificial intelligence.

November 9, 2018

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First, he wrote a book with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Next, an art exhibit in Cambridge that will tell you if you’re funny

Between moonlighting as a Twitter comedian, collaborating with “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on a new book, and making appearances on late-night television, Jonny Sun somehow found time to create an interactive art installation that’s debuting in Cambridge this month.

November 9, 2018

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Exposition : Tomas Saraceno tricote le fil de l’univers

At the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Tomas Saraceno installs his spectacular and poetic work woven by spiders.

November 2, 2018

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Bowie, Joni and Leonard: Breathing life into the poetic trinity

What becomes a legend most?

November 1, 2018

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Smelling A.I.: Anicka Yi On the Future of Olfaction, Death, and How Science Can Benefit From Working With Artists

Describing any of Anicka Yi’s unorthodox works as being “multimedia” would be an accurate, though a severely understated characterization.

October 27, 2018

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Seven Can’t Miss Events in Boston, November 2018

This time, Machover examines the flight of groundbreaking modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg from Nazi Germany to L.A. (via Brookline, as it happens), and the challenges the notoriously tenacious artist faced when he got there.

October 25, 2018

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Tony Conrad fought the snob art of the social climbers

Tony Conrad pickled film in canning jars. He made musical instruments out of bathroom plungers and golf club sleeves.

October 25, 2018

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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today?

October 25, 2018

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Jonny Sun Knows That Twitter Can Still Be The Internet’s Good Place

The Twitter humorist turned author-illustrator has a book—co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda—that might just convince you not to delete those social media accounts.

October 22, 2018

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With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off

“Oh, no! They swept her away!” exclaimed Tomás Saraceno, his eyes wide as he looked through a doorway at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

October 19, 2018

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Tomás Saraceno llega al Palais de Tokyo con una “jam session cósmica”

“La idea es actuar juntos en un sistema en devenir, siempre contingente y en permanente evolución, siguiendo various ritmos y trayectorias, para obtener un conjunto del universo”, explicó ayer en la vista guiada para la prensa internacional, junto con la … Continued

October16, 2018

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Free Public Art Around Boston that Will Blow Your Kids’ Minds

A tribute to science (that kids can run inside of) looms near MIT.

October 9, 2018

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Who Is Neri Oxman?

A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt.

October 6, 2018

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MIT Hacking Arts Marries Art And Blockchain

The student-run festival will bring together art professionals, engineers, and entrepreneurs.

October 3, 2018

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Arts on the Radar: hundreds of students kick off a year in the arts at MIT

Fourth annual event hosted by Arts at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, and MIT Music and Theater Arts Hundreds of students flocked to MIT’s building E15 to kick off a … Continued

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Motion sculptures in 3-D

A system developed by CSAIL researchers that creates 3-D motion sculptures based off of 2-D video could help dancers and athletes learn more about how they move.

September 24, 2018