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    • Cross-Disciplinary Classes
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A major cross-school initiative, the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) was founded in 2012. Since then, CAST has been the catalyst for more than 35 artist residencies and collaborative projects with MIT faculty and students—20 cross-disciplinary courses and workshops, four concert series and numerous multimedia projects, lectures and symposia.

  • Classes: integrating the arts into the core curriculum and creating new artistic work or materials, media and technologies for artistic expression.
  • Visiting Artists: distinctive for its emphasis on the research and development phase of artistic work, residencies embed artists in the cutting-edge research and teaching at MIT, where scientists and engineers are open to artists’ speculative and hands-on way of working.
  • Faculty Grants: creating new opportunities for art, science and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge and discovery at MIT, CAST supports projects that may be difficult to fund through traditional sources or are exploratory in nature but may lead to creative works, significant research or interesting collaborations in the future.
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2018-19 MIT Sounding

MIT Sounding is an annual concert series open to the public

A Jazz Wunderkind, A Haitian Pop Star and Spider Webs at MIT Sounding Series

Adrienne Truscott

Feb 7-9, 2019: Genre-straddling performance artist presents THIS

Agnieszka Kurant

Creating art through emergence and collective intelligence

Alvin Lucier

Legendary composer blurs the lines between experiment, composition and art installation

Ana Miljački’s Critical Broadcasting Lab

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

Anat Cohen

Andrew Schneider

Nov 9-11, 2018: Interactive media artist and company presents NERVOUS/SYSTEM

Andy Cavatorta

Anicka Yi

Investigating the powers of olfactory sensation

Anna Kohler’s Mytho? Lure of Wildness

2016 Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Seed Grant

Anne Lilly

Arnold Dreyblatt

Media artist and composer explores audio visual perception and memory

Arthur Ganson

Ascoli Ensemble

Audra McDonald

2018 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Ayesha Jordan

Feb 15, 2019: Work-in-Progress Showing

Azra Akšamija’s Lightweaver

2017 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

B. Stephen Carpenter II

Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility and Pedagogy

Bang on a Can

Bang on a Can strives to expose worldwide audiences to exciting and innovative music.

Ben Houge

BIC

Bill Viola

2009 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Billy Novick

"Sincerity... elegance... a lovely celebration of tunefulness" — Downbeat

Brandon Clifford’s Filament: Megaphones at the New York Philharmonic

2018 Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant

Charlotte Brathwaite’s Bee Boy

2016-17 CAST Faculty Grant Recipient

Christian Bök

Living poetry

Christopher Janney

Chuck Hoberman

With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms

David Adjaye

2016 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

David Sheppard

David Sheppard's work as a sound designer has taken him across the world and across genres, collaborating with many leading orchestras and ensembles as well as rock and pop musicians, visual artists, dance and film creatives.

Diemut Strebe

Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence

Don Byron

duoJalal

"Fearless seekers and synthesizers of disparate instruments and cultures” —Toronto Star

Either/Or Ensemble

Avant-garde ensemble Either/Or is fiercely virtuosic

Eric Singer

EVIYAN

World roots, post-minimalism and jazz in a singular, earthy and intense sound

Florian Hecker

FLUX Quartet

"One of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles" — San Francisco Chronicle

Fradreck Mujuru and Erica Azim

Celebrating the Shona mbira tradition

Ge Wang

Computer Maestro

Gediminas Urbonas’s The Swamp School

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

Guilherme Marcondes

Gustavo Dudamel

2010 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Hauschka

Hussein Chalayan

Hyphen-Labs

NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism

Ian Condry’s “Dissolve Music”

2017 Mellon Faculty Grant

J. Meejin Yoon’s FloatLab

2017-18 CAST Mellon Fellow

Jacob Collier

“Jazz music’s new messiah” —The Guardian

Jamshied Sharifi

Composer, producer and keyboardist Jamshied Sharifi premiered Awakening at MIT

Jason Levine

Jason Moran

Joe Lovano

“One of the greatest musicians in jazz history”—New York Times

Joel Fan

John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul

The films of John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul, founders of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, are the catalyst for an exploration of the overarching theme of “cinematic migrations.”

John Chowning

John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser

Capturing the pace and process of global suburbanization

Johnny Gandelsman

Violinist Gandelsman "plays with a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination" —Boston Globe

Judith Barry’s Something in Mind

2018 International Exhibition and Performance Fund

Julia Ogrydziak

Jupiter Quartet

Chamber music ensemble performs Beethoven’s foundational String Quartets

Karim Ben Khelifa

Humanizing the enemy

Karin Coonrod

Katerina Cizek

Pioneer in participatory and interactive documentary production

Kaynak Pipers Band

Traditional kaba gaida folk music of Bulgaria

Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib’s Persona

Visceral new operatic adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film

Keith Ellenbogen

Using ultra high-speed cameras to showcase underwater worlds in exquisite detail.

Lara Baladi

Archiving revolution

Libby Larsen

2004 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Lisa Dwan

Feb 21, 2019: “A Body of Beckett”

Lontano Ensemble

Lontano is synonymous with “the future in music.”

Luciana Souza with Guillermo Klein

April 28, 2017 - a stellar collision of vocal jazz, Latin music and poetry

Marcus A. Thompson’s Faculty Recital

2017 Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Seed Grant

Mark Stewart

Matthew Ritchie

Maya Beiser

Maya Beiser is a “cello goddess” — The New Yorker

Mel Chin and Rick Lowe

Memory Matrix

A solidarity-building and educational enterprise

Michael Bove and David Levine’s 3D Holograms

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

Mikael Jakobsson’s Maria: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation

2018 Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant

Mugaritz

Crossing culinary borders

Newton Harrison

Eco-Art and Action Research

Nik Bärtsch’s MOBILE

Olafur Eliasson

2014 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

On the Record

Creating new shared territories for discursive and collaborative practices.

Pamela Z

Transforming elegant physical gestures into complex aural and visual landscapes.

Pawan Sinha’s “Vision in Art and Neuroscience”

2017 & 2018 Mellon Faculty Grant

Pawel Romanczuk, Small Instruments

Complex sounds from small instruments

Pedro Reyes

Inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology

Pilobolus

Dance company Pilobolus creates interactive performance with MIT robotics

Rania Ghosn’s Blue Marble Circus

2017 Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant

Robert Lepage

2012 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Robert Wilson

Visionary avant-garde director

Roomful of Teeth

The expressive potential of the most basic instrument: the human voice

Santiago Calatrava

2005 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Sarah Cahill

“Sterling Bay Area pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” —The New York Times

Scanner and Stephen Vitiello

Sonic investigations into bodily experience and spatial practice

Simon Smith

Masterful and intrepid Stockhausen concert

Stephanie Frampton’s ARTificial Intelligence

2018 Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant

Sumie Kaneko

Traditional Japanese music with a jazz inflection

Suzan-Lori Parks

2006 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Suzanne Bocanegra

Tauba Auerbach

A visual distillation of complex mathematical and scientific concepts

Terry Riley

Minimalist legend

The Boston Camerata

Anne Azéma, Artistic Director

Thom Kubli

Tomás Saraceno

Expanding our thermodynamic imagination

Trevor Paglen

Meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us

Trimpin

Tristan Perich

Victor Gama

Vik Muniz

Shifts in scale, photographic manipulation and unexpected materials

WacŁaw Zimpel

Classical clarinetist lights up Polish jazz scene

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