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Artist Joan Levy Hepburn and Joe Bouchard (Blue Öyster Cult) presented their work in painting, color and music in the IAP course “Colors, Chords, Creativity,” which was sponsored by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Influenced by mentorships with … Continued
With his canvas stretched on the floor, Jackson Pollock dipped brushes or sticks into paint cans; then he drew in the air, dripping paint on the canvas, hovering, leaning, lunging, and gesturing here and there with varying speed. His pace, … Continued
A couple familiar red and white bags from the COOP bursting with MIT textbooks sat in a corner of the green room while legendary audio engineer and DJ, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton, talked to the press before his recent lecture … Continued
For Joel Leivick, the Carrara marble quarries — the place where Michelangelo obtained the stone from which he liberated his David — represent a complex geological and cultural terrain. Laura Volkerding’s silver gelatin prints document centuries old craft workshops for … Continued
Lontano Ensemble: Rowland Sutherland, flute; Peter Furniss, clarinet; Caroline Balding, violin; Clare O’Connell, cello; Mary Dullea, piano; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor. The famed London-based Lontano Ensemble returns to MIT on March 15 to perform works by MIT composers in … Continued
Before the age of print all books were manuscripts (the word means hand written), and therefore each existing manuscript is a unique artifact. A manuscript’s text, images and material components contain clues to the cultural, artistic, political, and technological achievements of … Continued
At this year’s Armory Show in New York (March 5-8), Art Jameel and Edge of Arabia will present the latest iteration of CULTURUNNERS, as part of the fair’s regional focus on MENAM (Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean). The Armory … Continued
“The project started with a general interest in creation myths”; that is how artist Matthew Ritchie describes the genesis of his multimedia performance piece, The Long Count/ The Long Game. He further explains his approach to such grand narratives began … Continued
MIT Professor of Art History Caroline Jones’ article, “Event Horizon: Olafur Eliasson’s Raumexperimente,” appears in Olafur Eliasson: Contact, the catalogue for Eliasson’s recent exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, which was on view until February 23, 2015. Below … Continued
Media artist and composer Arnold Dreyblatt’s connection to MIT began in 2000. As both a visual artist and a composer, there have been multiple threads to his involvement at MIT over the years. In his residency this fall he was … Continued
It is hard to have a bad time when you are playing a drinking straw as a flute. At the concluding concert for his IAP class, “Small Instruments: Musical Instrument Building & Performance,” Pawel Romanczuk gave the audience their very … Continued
Mnemosyne, “memory,” is the mother of all the Muses. “Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance,” an international conference devoted to the continuous and living archive, organized by Anna Kohler and Jay Scheib (Music & Theater Arts, MIT), celebrated memory’s role as … Continued
Once again, it is time to sign up for The Independent Activities Period (IAP), a special term at MIT that runs from early January until the end of the month. IAP 2015 will run from Monday, January 5, through Friday, … Continued
In his keynote address for CAST’s first symposium, Seeing/ Sounding/ Sensing, Bruno Latour (Professor at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris) observed that “Much of our philosophy comes from the still life; it’s a disease of the Dutch. Descartes and … Continued
Artist Olafur Eliasson, the 2014 McDermott Award Winner, has found MIT an eminently suitable place for collaboration on his Little Sun project. Described as “a work of art that works in life,” Little Sun is a high-quality, portable, solar powered … Continued
When the gods hand you a gift, they also hand you a whip for self-flagellation, to paraphrase Truman Capote. The Cassandra story typifies the blessing-and-coeval-curse topos. Apollo gives Cassandra the gift of prophecy to seduce her. When she refuses, he … Continued
Anyone who rides public transportation has likely experienced this breach of commuter etiquette: fellow passengers’ oblivion to the tinny blare emanating from their headphones. Students enrolled in “The Harmonic Archive: Music, Sound & Installation Art as Artistic Research” have used … Continued
“Good business is the best art,” Andy Warhol declared, and likewise, good art can be the basis for better business. Sam Magee, one of the principle organizers of MIT STARTUP, points out, “The arts are an integral part of the start-up … Continued
Samuel Johnson’s shortsighted critique of Tristram Shandy, an 18th century novel unmatched in its day for its experimental use of typographic layout and print technology, was that “nothing odd will do long.” Nick Montfort’s new book of poems #! (pronounced … Continued
Ukraine means “borderland, edge or outskirts.” Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn’s new collaborative project Borderland: A Cantata for Ukraine, which will premiere this week at Kresge Auditorium at MIT in a performance by Grammy-award winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth, operates … Continued
In their recent talk at the MIT Museum “Reverberations: Spiders and Musical Webs,” CAST Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno and MIT Professor Markus Buehler (Professor and Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT) discussed their research in materials and structures inspired by … Continued
Council for the Arts Tickets Program provides MIT students with access to the Bard and other worthy entertainments Attending a production of one of Shakespeare’s plays is a superb reminder that the origin of the word audience is “to hear.” … Continued
Fashion had an unlikely muse at the Descience Fashion Show, a runway competition hosted in MIT’s Media Lab. Instead of the usual celebrities and socialites, the designers drew their inspiration from molecular biologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, climatologists and scientists from … Continued
“Food is connected to everything—language, texture, tradition,” claimed Chef Dani Lasa of Mugaritz to a packed audience at MIT. Now, the R&D chef can add engineering to that list thanks to Pedro Reis, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering … Continued
MIT Presents New Music Series: MIT Sounding Featuring World Premieres, Reconstructed Classics, and Grammy Award winning musicians in new concert series For the 2014-15 season, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) inaugurates the innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding, curated by … Continued
