String theory
Experience is both a book about design and a design experience – with bits of string and a heat-sensitive cover. Review by John O’Reilly.
December 13, 2016
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Neri Oxman’s Lazarus death masks visualise the wearer’s last breath
Neri Oxman and the MIT Mediated Matter group have unveiled their latest collection of 3D-printed death masks, designed to contain the wearer’s last breath.
December 12, 2016
http://www.classical-scene.com
Valedictory Schubert From Indispensable Pianist
David Deveau devotes his upcoming Kresge recital to the final two Schubert piano sonatas: the A Major (D.959) and in B-flat Major (D.960).
December 1, 2016
http://www.newyorker.com
A Dance For The Melting Icebergs
Last November, during the climate summit in Paris, the Icelandic installation artist Olafur Eliasson transported twelve icebergs from Greenland to the Place du Panthéon for a piece titled “Ice Watch.”
November 25, 2016
http://www.designboom.com/
The Enemy: Karim Ben Khelifa’s Virtual Reality Exhibition Examines The Motives of War
Karim Ben Khelifa is a photojournalist who has worked across the globe, documenting a multitude of wars and conflicts.
November 19, 2016
Hugo Boss Prize Winner Anicka Yi Is Forcing the Art World to Take Scents Seriously
On a cold, rainy New York morning after the Hugo Boss Prize party at the Guggenheim last week, the artist Anicka Yi was mulling over the events of the night before, and her thoughts immediately went to her people.
October 28, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/
Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face
Cambridge, Mass.- Sitting in a conference room at a hotel near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here, I slip on large headphones and an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and wriggle into the straps of a backpack, weighed down with … Continued
October 26, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/
At ‘Doomocracy,’ It’s Fright Night in Brooklyn
Halloween started early this year. I’d put the date at July 18, opening night of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
October 13, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/
‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn
The artist Pedro Reyes is a biting social critic whose pieces often hold out hope — in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary — that things will get better.
October 6, 2016
www.artforum.com
Pedro Reyes Named MIT’s Inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that Pedro Reyes will launch a new residency program as the institution’s inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist.
September 14, 2016
http://www.artnews.com/
PEDRO REYES NAMED INAUGURAL DASHA ZHUKOVA DISTINGUISHED VISITING ARTIST AT MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that Mexico City–based artist Pedro Reyes will be the center’s first Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist.
September 14, 2016
Time stood still during Nik Bärtsch’s musical marathon in Abu Dhabi
When exposed to a continuous music installation for a period of several hours, your body starts to organically follow the flow of the music.
September 3, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Artist Ethan Hayes-Chute solves ‘problems’ with wit
CAMBRIDGE — Humans excel at finding solutions to “problems” that don’t always justify the description. That’s to say, we inflate “predicaments” (the word suggests a certain awareness of fate) into problems and then invent brilliant solutions. Viagra, for instance.
August 18, 2016
http://www.architectmagazine.com/
ArchitectChats: Episode 10 with MIT’s Skylar Tibbits on the Importance of Failure
The inventor of 4D printing and co-director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab discusses his research, the design technologies he’s most anticipating, and the role of failure in the pursuit of innovation.
August 11, 2016
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/
Boston at the Biennale: An Interview with Commissioner Paul Ha
Since 1895, cultural institutions from around the world have gathered at the Venice Biennale to present the latest developments in their country’s visual arts, performance, and design.
August 9, 2016
MIT mushrooms pop up in São Paulo
The 32nd São Paulo Biennale, due to open on 10 September (until 10 December), will play host to an installation of objects created by an unusual “designer”: the vegetative fungus mycelium.
August 8, 2016
http://www.metropolismag.com
Constructing a Narrative
David Adjaye tells us why The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in September, challenged him like never before.
August 1, 2016
https://artery.wbur.org
Enough With The Lawsuits: Berklee, MIT Lead Effort To Create Ownership Rights Database For Music Industry
Berklee College of Music and the MIT Media Lab are leading a new initiative they hope will one day solve complicated, expensive music industry issues involving licensing, distribution and ownership rights.
June 13, 2016
Neri Oxman Is Redesigning The Natural World
FROM 3-D PRINTING EXOSKELETONS TO CREATING BIODEGRADABLE ARCHITECTURE, THE MIT MEDIA LAB PROFESSOR IS PIONEERING NEW HYBRIDS OF ENGINEERING AND BIOLOGY.
June 07, 2016
NORMAN FOSTER PRESENTS DRONEPORT PROTOTYPE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2016
A full-scale prototype for a droneport designed by Foster+Partners built on site in the Arsenale in Venice, was unveiled at the 15th International Architecture Biennale on Thursday 26 May.
June 04, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Want to play ‘Rock Band’ with its creator?
Crowdfunding campaigns often rely on perks to entice people to contribute. Usually, it’s stuff that’s not all terribly interesting – a signed copy of something or other, or worthless swag like a bumper sticker or ballcap.
June 01, 2016
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/
Tala Madani at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Painter Tala Madani’s show in St. Louis provided a concise primer on her work, featuring her hallmark subject: men, nude or almost so, perhaps Middle Eastern and probably middle-aged, in situations both abject and humorous.
May 27, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Tala Madani’s paintings provoke at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center
America’s great art museums tend to shy away from showing genuinely disturbing art.
May 26, 2016
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/
‘The Iceman Cometh’ via Robots and an Artist Collective at MIT
If a machine could write dramas, what would they be? This is the idea that London-based artist collective Villa Design Group explores with The Tragedy Machine, their waggish, new exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
May 25, 2016
https://hyperallergic.com
Michelle Grabner, Paul Ha, and Eric Shiner Appointed to Jury for ArtPrize’s $200,000 Grand Prize
The Grand Prize jury will be joined by five category award jurors to award half of the $500,000 in prizes at ArtPrize Eight this fall.
May 19, 2016