Connect Arts, Community, and Computing Challenge

The Arts at MIT hosts Connect Arts, Community, and Computing, one of several challenges set in honor of the new MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. The Computing Connections Challenges are intended to illustrate and celebrate the ways in which MIT is advancing computing and creating connections between disciplines. See the full schedule of the Computing Connections Challenges.

Focusing on innovation in arts and computing, Connect Arts, Community, and Computing presents interactive demonstrations of student projects ranging from large-scale murals animated with augmented reality, to crowd-sourced computational astrophysics.

Meet the student winners of two tracks:

ARTS-TECH CHALLENGE
Arts-Tech teams present their projects incorporating arts, community, and computing. Disciplines ranging from astrophysics to cryptography, ethics to design, unite to tackle social, ecological, and educational issues.

MURAL AUGMENTATION CHALLENGE
View augmented reality that MIT students added to large scale murals in the Stata Building, including the 10 winning photographs of the Stata Street Artwork Competition, and one 10-foot mural created collaboratively by students and female inmates from Suffolk County House of Correction.

FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ARTS

A symposium at MIT exploring the intersection of cutting-edge science and technology with frontiers in artistic practice.

Co-organized by MIT.nano and the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), this afternoon symposium examines art forms and expressions enabled by the emergence of new materials and by advances in computing paradigms. Showcasing research, artistic collaborations, and innovations from across disciplines, each session features lightning talks, panels, and presentations from an interdisciplinary array of MIT faculty, visiting artists, and other researchers, practitioners, and innovators.

INFO SESSION: $15K Creative Arts Competition

Drop by for information about the MIT Creative Arts Competition, an annual contest designed to encourage arts-focused startups at the Institute.

The $15,000 prize is offered as a grant to help launch the winning enterprise and enable the recipient(s) to join the ranks of MIT’s successful startup founders.

OLAFUR ELIASSON PUBLIC ART DEDICATION

Celebrate of one of the newest additions to MIT’s Public Art Collection, Northwest Passage by Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson works through multiple mediums including sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installation. This piece is a site-specific work installed on the ceiling of the breezeway of Building 12, MIT.nano.

Tickets to this artist talk are sold out, but a live stream will be available.

Read more about the MIT Public Art Collection.

TEACHING COMPUTING IN ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Investigate how computing is taught in the arts and humanities during a panel discussion moderated by Agustín Rayo, Associate Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor of Philosophy.

Panelists include Michael Scott Cuthbert, Associate Professor of Music at MIT and Eran Egozy, Professor of the Practice in Music Technology at MIT.

COMPUTING AT THE CROSSROADS: INTERSECTIONS OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Join Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning Hashim Sarkis for a panel discussion about the intersections of research and education.

Sarkis is joined by Phillip A. Sharp, Neri Oxman, Asu Ozdaglar, Sarah E. Williams, Vivienne Sze, Munther A. Dahleh, and Andrew W. Lo.

Features MIT Media Lab Associate Professor Neri Oxman‘s presentation, Nature by Design, Design by Nature.

SPIDER'S CANVAS / ARACHNODRONE

Experience Spider’s Canvas / Arachnodrone, an immersive, multi-sensory installation based on the complex tent webs of the South American Cyrtophora citricola spider.

Spider’s Canvas / Arachnodrone is a co-creation of composer and MIT CAST Faculty Director Evan Ziporyn, composer/visual artist Christine Southworth ’02, sound artist Ian Hattwick, spider researcher Isabelle Su, in collaboration with artist Tomás Saraceno, whose originating idea provides the basis of the concert, and MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department Head and McAfee Professor Markus Buehler.

STATA STREET ARTWORK

Explore photographs by MIT students that won the 2019 Stata Street Artwork Competition. Displayed large scale along the Charles M. Vest Student Street inside of the Ray and Maria Stata Center, the images represent each artist’s thoughts on MIT student life, learning, and research.