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MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Projects Visiting Artists

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artists program is distinctive for its emphasis on the research and development phase of artistic work.  In addition to presenting new work, residencies embed artists in the ongoing research and teaching at MIT, where scientists and engineers are open to artists’ speculative and hands-on way of working.  The program hosts artists from a wide range of visual and performing arts disciplines each academic year, exposing students to the creative process and fostering cross-fertilization among disciplines.

The Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist Program, launched in Fall 2016, creates the opportunity for artists to shape new creative projects over a period of two years of sustained, in-depth research and development.

Visiting Artist Collaborations are supported by the Ida Ely Rubin Artists in Residence Fund, Abramowitz Memorial Lectureship Fund, and the Alan W. Katzenstein (1942) Memorial Fund.

Read more about the programs that CAST has sponsored in the 2012-14 Program Report (PDF), 2014-15 Program Report (PDF), 2015-16 Program Report (PDF), 2016-18 Program Report (PDF), and 2019-20 Program Report (PDF).

For more information, contact:

Susan Wilson, Producer

Katherine Higgins, Producer

 

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Pedro Reyes

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

Thomas Heatherwick

2020 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Hyphen-Labs

NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism

Jacob Collier

“Jazz music’s new messiah” —The Guardian

Sarah Cahill

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

Agnieszka Kurant

Creating art through emergence and collective intelligence

Sarnath Banerjee

Demystifying social science through creative storytelling

Lisa Dwan

2019–20 CAST Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist

Ayesha Jordan

Feb 15, 2019: Work-in-Progress Showing

B. Stephen Carpenter II

Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility and Pedagogy

Hussein Chalayan

Transformable fashion

Thom Kubli

Exploring the boundaries of physical space and floating structures

Karin Coonrod

Far-reaching inventiveness

Matthew Ritchie

Artistic explorations of existence and scale

Diemut Strebe

Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence

BIC

Bringing Kreyòl music and digital poetry to MIT

Adrienne Truscott

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

Joel Fan

Soaring and virtuosic pianist

Maya Beiser

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

Tomás Saraceno

Expanding our thermodynamic imagination

Trevor Paglen

Meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us

Andrew Schneider

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

Karim Ben Khelifa

Humanizing the enemy

Mugaritz

Crossing culinary borders

Jenna Sutela

Interspecies communicator using living material to explore the unknown

Newton Harrison

Eco-Art and Action Research

Fradreck Mujuru and Erica Azim

Celebrating the Shona mbira tradition

Christian Bök

Living poetry

Sumie Kaneko

Traditional Japanese music with a jazz inflection

Pamela Z

Transforming elegant physical gestures into complex aural and visual landscapes.

FLUX Quartet

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

David Adjaye

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

Olafur Eliasson

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

Katerina Cizek

Pioneer in participatory and interactive documentary production

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.”

Jupiter Quartet

Chamber music ensemble performs Beethoven’s foundational String Quartets

Keith Ellenbogen

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

Lontano Ensemble

Lontano is synonymous with “the future in music.”

WacŁaw Zimpel

Classical clarinetist lights up Polish jazz scene

Tauba Auerbach

A visual distillation of complex mathematical and scientific concepts

Alvin Lucier

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

Anicka Yi

Investigating the powers of olfactory sensation

Suzanne Bocanegra

The Boston Camerata

Anne Azéma, Artistic Director

Scanner and Stephen Vitiello

Sonic investigations into bodily experience and spatial practice

Florian Hecker

Psychoacoustic experimentations

Guilherme Marcondes

Captivating films and animations that probe the relationship between humans and our constructed environment

Mel Chin and Rick Lowe

Exploring the complexities of building healthy communities through art and activism

Don Byron

Legendary clarinetist and composer forging "a sound above genre"

Vik Muniz

Shifts in scale, photographic manipulation and unexpected materials

Ben Houge

Sonification of real-time data

Anne Lilly

Bang on a Can

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

Jamshied Sharifi

Composer, producer, and keyboardist Jamshied Sharifi premiered Awakening at MIT

Robert Wilson

Visionary avant-garde director

Ascoli Ensemble

Vocal ensemble using technology to reconstruct unusual medieval repertoires

Jason Moran

Adventurous jazz pianist

Either/Or Ensemble

Avant-garde ensemble Either/Or is fiercely virtuosic

John Chowning

Inventor of FM synthesis

Mark Stewart

Multi-instrumentalist, guitarist, composer, and instrument designer

Hauschka

Fueled by a love of rhythm, Hauschka creates playful, unpredictable and inventive music

Arthur Ganson

Kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson creates machines at once whimsical and philosophical

Andy Cavatorta

Through the design of such complex and experimental instruments, Andy Cavatorta explores the ways in which we create meaning through sound.

Julia Ogrydziak

Experiential art works and performances

Roomful of Teeth

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

Tristan Perich

Trimpin

Engaging the visual, spatial, and kinetic properties of sound

Arnold Dreyblatt

Media artist and composer explores audio visual perception and memory

EVIYAN

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

Christopher Janney

Christopher Janney’s site-specific works facilitate interactions between people and their environment, creating in the urban landscape a sense of spontaneity.

Victor Gama

Instrument building and music composition using new technologies and the creative practices of Africa and the Diaspora

Eric Singer

Engineer, programmer, roboticist, and artist using sensors and robotics in multimedia systems

Terry Riley

Minimalist legend

Robert Lepage

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

Gustavo Dudamel

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

Bill Viola

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

Pawel Romanczuk, Small Instruments

Complex sounds from small instruments

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.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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

Santiago Calatrava

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

Libby Larsen

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

Chuck Hoberman

With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms

Ge Wang

Computer Maestro

John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser

Capturing the pace and process of global suburbanization

Lara Baladi

Archiving revolution

Johnny Gandelsman

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

Guillermo Klein

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

duoJalal

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

On the Record

Creating new shared territories for discursive and collaborative practices.

Nik Bärtsch’s MOBILE

Rigorously conceptual zen-funk

Simon Smith

Masterful and intrepid Stockhausen concert

Kaynak Pipers Band

Traditional kaba gaida folk music of Bulgaria

Joe Lovano

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

Audra McDonald

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

Rosa Colón Guerra

Challenging colonialist narratives through board games

Luciana Souza

2020-21 CAST Virtual Visiting Artist

Jason Levine

Audiovisual artist and performer whose primary medium is code

Marcus A. Thompson’s Faculty Recital

2017 Fay Chandler Creativity Grant

Anat Cohen

A virtuoso widely recognized as one of the most vital clarinetists working today

Pilobolus

Dance company Pilobolus creates interactive performance with MIT robotics

Billy Novick

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

Volumetric Cinema

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

Jay Scheib’s In the Jungle of Cities

May 17, 2019: A Works/Process Presentation inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s genre-smashing play

Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces

Translating the cosmos into music

The Day

Conversation with Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser, moderated by Sara Brown, April 23, 2020

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up, October 31, 2019

Jay Scheib’s The Silence

Two sisters on the run from massive human failure, December 12-14, 2019

Harry Allen and Rob Swift

MIT hosts harbanger, a battle DJ septet

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Honoring a pioneer of the avant-garde

Iva Bittová

Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer.

Lakaï Dance’s The Block: An Afro-Musical

The Block: An Afro-Musical, September 27 & 28, 2019

Lochan Rijal

Sharing the rich heritage of traditional Nepalese music

Lupe Fiasco

Adesola Akinleye

Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space

Lion’s Jaw

Creating an environment where risk, rigor, and rebellion can flourish through dance

A Black History Month Celebration

MGH partners with organizations and groups throughout the Greater Boston area to celebrate and honor Black History Month

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