Renée Green by Gloria Sutton
On the occasion of Inevitable Distances, a two-venue retrospective in Berlin, Green traces the serial forms and “ongoingness” in her research-driven, visionary films and installations.
Feb. 3, 2022
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MIT Hayden Memorial Library by Kennedy & Violich Architecture
Sheila Kennedy, MIT architecture professor and principal at KVA, says the renovation has thoroughly transformed “a book barn without charm.” Now, when you enter, you find that the place has been radically altered.
Feb. 1, 2022
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Merging Design, Tech, and Cognitive Science at MIT
Senior Ibuki Iwasaki double majors in art and design and in computation and cognition. “Design most definitely involves aspects of both humanities and STEM,” she says.
Jan. 21, 2022
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Armitage Gone! Dance Presents A PANDEMIC NOTEBOOK at New York Live Arts
Internationally acclaimed choreographer and “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage—currently a MIT Media Lab Directors Fellow—presents A Pandemic Notebook, a collection of world premieres with her company Armitage Gone! Dance, March 16-19, at New York Live Arts.
Jan. 18, 2022
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T-Serai project awarded Holcim Award
J-WEL funded project reimagines refugee shelter design with dignity, cultural sensitivity, and sustainability.
Jan 19, 2022
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Sreshta Rit Premnath’s Meditations on Makeshift Sites
At MIT List Visual Arts Center, the artist presents minimalist assemblages that reflect critically on the spaces and circumstances of the disenfranchised.
Jan 18, 2022
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Interviews: Sreshta Rit Premnath
Sreshta Rit Premnath on finding hope at the margins and two related exhibitions, both titled “Grave/Grove” on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center.
Jan 17, 2022
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MACHOVER Death and the Powers
Tod Machover’s science-fiction opera about robots and humans, set to a libretto by Robert Pinsky, was designed with a spectacular visual apparatus in mind, and after productions in Monte Carlo, Boston and Chicago, was nominated for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. … Continued
Jan 3, 2022
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Caroline A. Jones on the art of Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach’s uncompromisingly abstract art has likewise always been premised on inducing a visceral reaction to abstruse ideas—from chirality to rotational symmetry to tetrachromacy and quantum states. The artist’s tacit, muscular ways of knowing and mark-making are what initially draw … Continued
Nov. 30, 2021
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Family Weekend Concert: a wonderful night for music aficionados
Last Friday, MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE), MIT Jazz Ensemble, and MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble came together in Kresge Auditorium for the first time in a year and a half to perform their annual Family Weekend Concert…. the excitement from the … Continued
Nov. 3, 2021
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Anicka Yi fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with science, scent and intrigue
The work of the Korean-American artist Anicka Yi takes in science, microbial activity and air-carried markers of identity, amongst other things. The perfect pick, then, for Tate Modern’s first Turbine Hall commission (officially the ‘Hyundai Commission’) since Covid closed operations.
Oct 11, 2021
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An Artist Who Disavows the Possibility of Individual Agency
According to Agnieszka Kurant, everything we make — from the systems that oppress us to the inventions that transform us — is the result of a collective.
Nov. 14, 2021
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Why the arts and humanities are critical to the future of tech
In the 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, two institutions renowned for science and technology topped the list for arts and humanities.These institutions recognize that we need a new generation of critical thinkers to guide us … Continued
Nov 3, 2021
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10 Human Innovations Inspired by Spiders
If you haven’t heard it yet, people have now used the construction of spider webs to create music with 3-D video, and it’s as eerie as you would imagine it to be! Have a listen. Spider Canvas was a collaborative … Continued
Nov 10, 2021
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MIT Mocha Moves hosted the Revive the Arts (RTA) Dance Showcase
MIT Mocha Moves hosted the Revive the Arts (RTA) dance showcase on Nov. 5 and featured a variety of other MIT dance groups.
Nov. 9, 2021
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Tree Clocks: an interactive rhythm and language work
Code Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Professor Nick Montfort, invited MIT students to develop computational artworks that play with language and rhythm… Our interactive rhythm and poetry performance centered around multiple tree trunk rings as … Continued
Nov 4, 2021
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Family Weekend Concert: a wonderful night for music aficionados
Last Friday, MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE), MIT Jazz Ensemble, and MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble came together in Kresge Auditorium for the first time in a year and a half to perform their annual Family Weekend Concert. The overwhelming theme was … Continued
Nov. 3, 2021
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New InnovationHQ open to students
MIT’s new InnovationHQ (iHQ) — five newly renovated floors in E38 (Site 4) — opened in early September. The space, encompassing over 25,000 square feet of space “for innovation and entrepreneurship activities”… According to the iHQ website, the building is … Continued
Sep. 23, 2021
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5 Ways Ballet Prepared Me for My Engineering Career
People often ask me about my ballet background because it seems like strange preparation for an engineering career. To me it’s not peculiar at all. Ballet taught me many of the skills I use to excel in both the classroom … Continued
September 10, 2021
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CINDY JI HYE KIM
Trained as an illustrator at the Rhode Island School of Design (2013), Cindy Ji Hye Kim came to painting a few years later, during her MFA at Yale University School of Art (2016).
September 7, 2021
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Transformative truth-telling at MIT Open Documentary Lab
A man’s ghostly voice speak-sings from the black screen: “Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetops …”
August 31, 2021
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What Does It Mean for a Whole Nation to Become Uninhabitable?
Devi Lockwood ’19 spent five years traveling the globe talking to people about changes they were seeing to their local water and climates. Here are some of the stories she heard.
August 13, 2021
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NASA’s TESS Tunes Into an Unprecedented All-Sky “Symphony” of Pulsating Red Giant Stars
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have identified an unprecedented collection of pulsating red giant stars all across the sky.
August 7, 2021
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Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty
For “The Land Claim” at the Parrish Art Museum, she digs deep into the suppressed stories of communities of color in the Hamptons.
July 8, 2021
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Boston Public Radio Full Show: 6/30/21
Jonathan Gruber explained the economics behind the music industry as more music venues reopen for live shows. He also talked about the lack of revenue musicians gain from streaming services and album releases. Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at … Continued
June 30, 2021