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Articles that take an in-depth look at selected MIT faculty projects funded by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.

 

The Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) supports the development of creative projects, artist residencies, cross-disciplinary classes, and research that integrates the arts and has significant student engagement or impact on campus.

CAST offers several categories of funding for MIT faculty and principal or senior research staff from all departments, labs, and centers. In addition to two types of grants established in 2016, the Mellon Faculty Grant and the Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant, in 2018 the International Exhibition and Performance Fund was introduced to defray the costs of a faculty member’s performance, exhibition, installation, or other creative project that will appear by invitation in a major international venue.

 

 

For more information, contact castgrants@mit.edu

 

For a comprehensive look at awarded grants, visit CAST Faculty Grants

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DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.

Climate Inheritance

World Heritage at Risk
PhD student Sarah Schwettmann explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains.

3 Questions: Sarah Schwettmann on the interface between art and neuroscience

The MIT PhD student explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains. Computational neuroscientist Sarah Schwettmann is one of three instructors behind the cross-disciplinary course 9.S52/9.S916 Vision in Art and Neuroscience, which introduces students to … Continued

Image: Playwright and MIT Senior Lecturer Ken Urban's The Immortals. Credit Melissa Blackall.
Playwright and MIT Senior Lecturer Ken Urban's The Immortals, recipient of a CAST Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant, is a work in progress by playwright Ken Urban, draws from the strange and troubling case of Henrietta Lacks. Credit Melissa Blackall.

Observations from The Immortals workshop at MIT

Students share their experiences from a workshop with theater professionals Director Logan Vaughn, dramaturg Ignacia Delgado, and actors Heather Alicia Simms, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Naomi Jacobson, and Jordan Geiger came together at MIT to work with Ken Urban, Senior Lecturer … Continued

Two actors read from scripts while others look on.
MTA Playwrights Lab, 2018. Photo: Sarah Wagner.

MTA Playwrights Lab Gives Young Writers a Professional Experience

On a recent Friday evening, six people gathered around a table in a mostly-empty studio in MIT’s new Theater Arts building on the western edge of campus. In a few hours time, the group—local actors Marge Buckley and Sarah Bedard, … Continued

The Lightweaver, photomontage of a kinetic light installation for the Future Heritage Lab at the refugee camp Al Azraq, Jordan by Azra Aksamija / FHL. Credit: Azra Aksamija, The Lightweaver, 2017.

Future Heritage Lab Devises Creative Responses to Humanitarian Crises

Artistic Collaboration Between MIT, German-Jordanian University and Refugees in the Al Azraq Camp in Jordan Associate Professor Azra Akšamija, Art, Culture & Technology Program, MIT Department of Architecture, first visited the Al Azraq refugee camp in Jordan in 2016. “Once … Continued

DESIGN EARTH, Planetarium for the Anthropocene, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
DESIGN EARTH, "Planetarium for the Anthropocene," 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Q&A with Rania Ghosn

Suspend disgust at the thought of trash; make it a compelling subject for designers and the broader public. That’s Rania Ghosn’s tactic for getting more people to improve our built environment and ask the necessary questions about landfills, oil rigs, … Continued

Adam Strandberg, Anna Martel, Anna Kohler. Credit: Caleb Hammond.

Anna Kohler plays with sensations in Mytho? Lure of Wildness

“It’s a tender portrait of a scary thing,” says Anna Kohler, describing her latest theatrical project, Mytho? Lure of Wildness. Kohler’s play explores the fearsome reality of getting old, in particular how aging transforms beauty and affects the senses: “It’s … Continued

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