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"Surrounded by Digitized Faces" and Bodies is a collection of interactive installations that mirror visitors’ own images in unexpected ways. Using immersive sound, video recording, and projection, faces and bodies of gallery visitors become part of works which reflect the skepticism and irony of postmodern life. The artists use vivid optimism to urge viewers to look inside and befriend their inner selves. Courtesy of Yangyang Yang.

3 Questions: Three Emerging Student Artists React To Their Wiesner Student Art Gallery Experiences In Fall 2019

Exposures II featuring Adam Jost and SAA artists, Surrounded by Digitized Faces and Bodies featuring Yangyang Yang and recent IDM alumni, and Ohyoon Kwon’s Closing Remarks Each month, the Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Gallery welcomes students, staff, faculty, and … Continued

Johnny Gandelsman performs for the first annual Terry and Rick Stone Concert in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium on October 30, 2015. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.

BACH: THE SIX SUITES FOR SOLO CELLO (for solo violin)

JS Bach: Complete Cello Suites Johnny Gandelsman, violin February 8, 2020 / 7:00pm Kresge Auditorium, MIT Building W16 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Reserve a seat Following up on his celebrated debut recording of JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, Grammy award-winning … Continued

On Display: April 22 - May 23, 2019 Works by Laura Perovich, graduate student in the MIT Media Lab and Community Collaborators Participatory Self-Portrait is a collaborative exhibit investigating art, environment, and community in our past and present. It includes community-based environmental art from Chelsea, MA, and Cambridge, MA, and explores the intertwined systems that form our collective decisions about how to create our future. You are invited to shape and be shaped by this interactive installation. Photo by Sarah Hirzel Please ask before use

3 Questions: Three Emerging Student Artists React to Their Wiesner Student Art Gallery Experiences

Students show their research at MIT through their gallery exhibitions Each month, the Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Gallery welcomes students, staff, faculty, and visitors to view a new and engaging exhibition of student art work. A gift from MIT’s … Continued

Spider's Canvas at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France on November 23, 2018.
Spider's Canvas at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France on November 23, 2018. Photo by Aurelie Cenno.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation approves $1 Million grant to MIT to support the further integration of CAST into the research culture of the Institute

Third Mellon grant brings the Mellon Foundation’s total support for CAST to $4,000,000 through 2024 “CAST was established in 2012 with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,” said Faculty Director Evan Ziporyn and Executive Director Leila Kinney,” and … Continued

As part of MIT Sounding, Haitian rapper, poet and singer BIC performs his work in collaboration with Jean Appolon Expressions, a Cambridge-based Haitian contemporary dance company. Photo by Caroline Alden.

Performer BIC Shares the Joy of Music and Poetry to Promote Social Equity

The Haitian poet and rapper discusses the rich outcomes of a week-long residency at MIT. Can art, poetry and music generate social change? That question was  enthusiastically explored this April during a visiting artist residency with Haitian poet and rapper … Continued

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