Press Releases

Lupe Fiasco to Perform Concert at MIT's Artfinity Festival with MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble

Lupe Fiasco and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announce that the GRAMMY-winning rapper will perform an on-campus concert on May 2nd with MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. The upcoming concert marks the conclusion of MIT’s Artfinity festival, a performing and visual arts festival celebrating creativity and community at MIT that began on February 15.

Artist and Designer Es Devlin Creates Collective Portrait with the MIT Community

Artist and designer Es Devlin and more than 100 members of the MIT community have created MIT Face to Face, a series of portrait drawings by MIT students, faculty and staff, that together form a collective portrait of the MIT community. The project is  part of Devlin’s residency for her 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The installation of drawings will be on view in a pop up exhibition on April 28-30  at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT.

Artist and Designer Es Devlin Awarded 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that artist and designer Es Devlin is the recipient of the 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K prize awarded at a gala in her honor also includes an artist residency at MIT in spring 2025, during which Es Devlin will present her work in a lecture open to the public on May 1, 2025.

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess collaborates with the MIT Media Lab on jam_bot

Work-in-Progress Performance by Jordan Rudess, keyboard and jam_bot

with special guest Camilla Bäckman, violin/vocals
September 21, 2024 / 8pm / MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

MIT Museum Presents “Optiker” Holograms Installation

Installation of Holograms from the Collection of Holography Pioneer and MIT Professor Stephen
Benton on view at the MIT Museum: Crystal Beginning, Rind II, Head of Aphrodite (“The Bartlett Head”), Motif I, Equivocal
Forks II, and Medusa
On view June 28, 2024 – July 2025

A New Exhibition at the MIT Museum Offers Nostalgia for Bygone Architectural Representation

Remember when architects made drawings? A new exhibition at the MIT Museum brings us back to a time when those works were considered a hot commodity. Tucked away in a small, upper-floor gallery, Drawing After Modernism is the first exhibition dedicated to architecture in the decades-old Cambridge, Massachusetts institution’s new space.

MIT MUSEUM PRESENTS NEW BERENICE ABBOTT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

The MIT Museum announces So Easy to See: Berenice
Abbott’s Super Sight, a new exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) in its Ronald A. (1954) and Carol S. Kurtz Photography Gallery, on view October 27, 2023 through March 2024.

New Production of Tod Machover's VALIS Premieres at MIT

World Premiere of a New Version of Tod Machover’s Groundbreaking 1987 Opera VALIS
Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick

Starring:
Davóne Tines, Bass-Baritone
Anaïs Reno, Mezzo-Soprano
Directed by Jay Scheib

MIT List Visual Arts Center Announces 2023–24 Exhibitions 

Featuring solo exhibitions of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carlos Reyes,
Pedro Gómez-Egaña, and Hana Miletić with a special season of experimental List Projects that commemorates 10 years of the series.

MIT Sounding Presents: 88 for 88: A Global Online Real-Time Celebration of Terry Riley's 88th Birthday

On the occasion of Terry Riley’s 88th birthday, MIT Sounding and
ContaQt New Music will host a celebratory event that will truly reverberate across the globe. A community of 88 talented musicians and media artists hailing from six continents will assemble online for a virtual concert, paying homage to the legendary composer.

Microbes Make Mountains at the MIT Keller Gallery

The exhibition of work by emerging architect and multidisciplinary designer Laura Maria Gonzalez features biocemented sculptures made from a unique combination of minerals, highlighting the relationship between the microbes and their environment.

RECORDAR at the MIT Keller Gallery

RECORDAR: Architectural designer and storyteller Deborah Garcia to present exhibition and sound event that launches multi- channel interactive sound tower

Meet Damien McDuffie and Kidus Hailesilassie: MIT & Black Public Media’s Fall 2022 Joint Fellowship Recipients

Damien McDuffie and Kidus Hailesilassie have been selected as the third cohort of recipients of the MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Residency. This fellowship, hosted by the MIT Open Documentary Lab (ODL) and sponsored by the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST), is designed to support Black artists in researching and developing an emerging-tech nonfiction project.

MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT.

NEW MIT MUSEUM OPENS TO THE PUBLIC ON OCTOBER 2, 2022

The MIT Museum will re-open in a new location at 314 Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reinvented with new exhibitions and programming, an enlarged Museum Store, and more

Interdisciplinary Artist Pamela Z Awarded 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z is the recipient of the 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

MIT Presents It Must Be Now!—Advancing social justice actions through music and media

Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces It Must Be Now!, a unique immersive music and multimedia event featuring the world premieres of newly commissioned work of three leading jazz artists of our time.

MIT Announces New Morningside Academy for Design

Created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation, and supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.

MIT Museum Announces the Appointment of Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch as Deputy Director

The MIT Museum is pleased to announce the
appointment of Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch as Deputy Director.

Andrea Walls is one of two recipients of the 2021 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artists Program

Artist and poet Andrea Walls is one of two recipients of the 2021 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artists Program.

MIT List Visual Arts Center Presents Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again

Thornton’s List Center exhibition marks the artist’s first US solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive presentation to date.

Andrew Norman Wilson’s first solo presentation at a United States institution premieres his new film, Impersonator (2021) at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

Andrew Norman Wilson’s first solo presentation at a United States institution premieres his new film, Impersonator (2021).

MIT List Visual Arts Center Presents Sreshta Rit Premnath: Grave/Grove

Grave/Grove, an exhibition of new sculptural works by Sreshta Rit Premnath that incorporate live plants, examines the ways in which natural, political, and human time are interconnected.

Fabiano Mixo Wins BPM and MIT Fellowship

MIT and Black Public Media select artist & filmmaker as the 2nd recipient of their fellowship for Black creative technologists working on new forms of documentary

MIT Presents Two Major Arts Symposia April 1-10, 2021

MIT will present two major symposia in the arts in April 2021: “Unfolding Intelligence: The Art and Science of Contemporary Computation” April 1-9, focusing on aesthetic, technical, and critical issues pertaining to artificial intelligence (AI) and computational media; and the Max Wasserman Forum “Another World”, April 6-10, exploring the values and aesthetics developed in artworks on digital platforms. The symposia are presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and by the MIT List Visual Arts Center respectively. Partners for the CAST symposium are the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality, the MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative, and the MIT Trope Tank.

Carla LynDale Bishop: Inaugural Recipient of the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship

Mapping Blackness: A Digital Archive of Black Communities is the brainchild of filmmaker and educator Carla LynDale Bishop, who in September 2020 was named the inaugural recipient of the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship, The fellowship was created by a partnership between MIT Open Documentary Laboratory (ODL), Black Public Media, and MIT Center for Arts Science & Technology (CAST).

Two Hip-Hop Legends Break Ground on New Musical Territory At MIT See 7 Talented DJs Come Together at MIT Sounding

harbanger (pronounced “harbinger”), a turntable septet created by Visiting Artists Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, and X-Ecutioners’ DJ Rob Swift, in a groundbreaking concert featuring DJs Axis Pro, Bobby Bangers, Don Santos, Emoh Betta, Menace, Slipwax, and Treeman debuting compositions by Breakmaster Cylinder, DJ Treeman, and DJ Don Santos.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Christine Sun Kim: Off the Charts

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to presentChristine Sun Kim: Off the Charts, on view from February 7—April 12, 2020. Working in sound, performance, drawing, installation, and video, the California-born, Berlin-based artist considers the sonic as a multi-sensory phenomenon, whose properties are auditory, visual, and spatial, as well as socially determined.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center names Natalie Bell as new curator

The MIT List Visual Arts Center announced today that Natalie Bell will be its next exhibition curator. Most recently, Bell served as associate curator at the New Museum, New York, where she worked since 2013. Bell begins her new appointment at the List Center on January 15, 2020.

MIT List Visual Arts Center presents List Projects 20: Becca Albee

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce List Projects 20: Becca Albee , the artist’s first institutional solo presentation.

MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances. The exhibition features a newly commissioned work and a focused selection of recent sculptures

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade.

TRANSTECTONICS: MIT Exhibition Explores Material Process and Geological Craft

MIT announced that TRANSTECTONICS, an exhibition by Spanish architect and designer Cristina Parreño Alonso, lecturer in the MIT Department of Architecture, is on view at MIT’s Keller Gallery through January 31, 2020.

Thomas Heatherwick Awarded 2020 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that British designer Thomas Heatherwick is the recipient of the 2020 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

MIT Art-Science Project Makes $2 Million Diamond “Disappear” at the NY Stock Exchange

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will present The Redemption of Vanity, created by artist Diemut Strebe in collaboration with MIT scientist Brian Wardle and his lab, on view at the New York Stock Exchange September 13, 2019 – November 25, 2019.

MoMA ANNOUNCES MONOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OF ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, AND INVENTOR NERI OXMAN IN EARLY 2020

The Museum of Modern Art announces Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, an exhibition featuring the work of architect, designer, and inventor Neri Oxman, on view from February 22 through May 25, 2020.

MIT Museum Presents Major Polaroid Exhibition The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

The MIT Museum presents The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology (October 11, 2019 – June 21, 2020), the fascinating story of the Polaroid company told through the MIT’s unique Polaroid Collection and an array of stunning Polaroid photographs.

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

MIT List Visual Arts Center announces List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi , the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US institution. Working in photography, video, and performance, Al Qasimi considers how images inscribe identity along the lines of gender, nationality, and class.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents List Projects: Rose Salane

Rose Salane (b 1992, Queens, New York) studies significant social and cultural moments—events that alter how we see the world and whose impact transcends generations and demographics.Uncovering the intimate and personal stories that are often lost in the larger historical narrative, Salane assembles objects, images, and text, as a means to magnify the details associated with these historic turns.

MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse, the largest solo presentation of the artist's works to date at a US institution.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse, on view from May 24-July 28, 2019. With selected films spanning over thirty years of Beckman’s career, this is the largest solo presentation of the artist’s work to date at a US institution.

MIT Museum presents Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus

The MIT Museum presents Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus from March 28 – September 1, 2019 in celebration of the Bauhaus centennial, the most influential design school of the twentieth century (1919-1933) whose cultural impact remains resonant a century later. With 92 prints on view, the exhibition explores the close relationship of photography, graphic design and the book arts, all areas of significant focus and impact for its program.

The Met, Microsoft, and MIT Explore the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on How Global Audiences Connect with Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed today the results of a recent collaboration—The Met x Microsoft x MIT—that imagines the new ways in which global audiences can engage with one of the world’s foremost art collections through artificial intelligence technologies.

MIT Celebrates Oldest Architecture Program in the United States with the Exhibition Drawing, Designing, Thinking: 150 Years of Teaching Architecture at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrates the oldest architecture program in the United States with the exhibition, Drawing, Designing,
Thinking: 150 Years of Teaching Architecture at MIT February 14 – August 25, 2019 at the
MIT Museum. Featuring works by distinguished alumni such as Robert R. Taylor ‘1892, I.M. Pei‘40, and Charles Correa ‘55 that they created while students at MIT, the exhibition also presents educational material created by faculty including founder William R. Ware , Gyorgy Kepes, and Joan Jonas , highlighting the Institute’s forward thinking leadership in architectural education.

MIT List Visual Arts Center announces solo exhibition featuring recent and new sculptural works by Kathleen Ryan

The List Center presents the North American premiere of California-raised, New York-based artist Kathleen Ryan.

Working primarily in sculpture, Ryan’s work is distinguished by her virtuosic grasp of materials, ranging from poured concrete, cast iron, carved marble, and precious stones to found objects such as granite manufacturing blocks and bowling balls.

MIT List Visual Arts Center announces a solo exhibition featuring new sculptural works by Kapwani Kiwanga. The List Center exhibition is Kiwanga’s first major presentation at a US museum

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring recent and new sculptural work by Kapwani Kiwanga. Kiwanga is a Paris-based artist who traces historical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.

MIT List Visual Arts Center’s latest List Projects exhibition premieres A Green Shade, a new video installation by Mary Helena Clark

Mary Helena Clark (b 1983, Santee, South Carolina) manipulates traditional narrative conventions in cinema to render dissociative states and surreal
environments.

2018 MIT Hacking Arts

MIT Hacking Arts, one of the largest student-run festivals of its kind, to explore where art and technology will intersect in future artistic co-creations.

Composer John Harbison Publishes First Book "What Do We Make of Bach?"

The 2018-2019 concert season marks composer John Harbison’s 80th birthday with celebrations throughout the country and around the world, including three major premieres, several new CD releases and the publication of his first book.

MIT Appoints Matthew Ritchie the Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist

The artist will research and develop new work in 2018-19 academic year.

MIT Performing Announcement

New Series MIT Performing Signals a Vibrant Performing Arts Destination in Boston/Cambridge
Curated by Professor and Director Jay Scheib.

Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva

The MIT Museum announces Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva, a new exhibition of photographs taken in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The exhibition is a retrospective of Teshaieva’s multi-year work on constructed identities, consisting of three recent projects in which she interrogates the idea of nation as an “imagined community” and a political construct that is often in conflict with private and public memory.

Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid. New York City-based artist Carissa Rodriguez examines the material and social conditions in which art is produced and reveals how the canonical figure of the artist is reflected in—and reproduced by—the products of her labor. Rodriguez’s solo exhibition, which premiered at SculptureCenter in January, features a newly commissioned video work titled The Maid (2018).

MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Diary w/o Dates, Allison Katz’s first solo exhibition in the US

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Diary w/o Dates, the first solo exhibition in the US by Canadian-born, London-based artist Allison Katz. Diary w/o Dates is a suite of twelve paintings that construct a mythical present. Katz warps the organizing principles of time, her paintings simultaneously calling to the past and proposing the future. This body of work comes out of parallels she sees between the grid of the calendar and the grid of the canvas, exploring the structured intervals of time and the physical constraints of the painting surface.

List Projects: Gordon Hall

As a sculptor, performer, and writer, Gordon Hall examines the personal, relational, and political effects of the ways we relate to objects and to each other. Using both abstract forms and re-constructed copies of found objects, the artist asks how we might use such things and how they solicit bodily engagements from us. Ultimately, Hall’s interests lie in the social and political dynamics of these engagements.

Audra McDonald Awarded 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

MIT is pleased to announce that Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald is the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100,000 cash prize awarded at a gala in her honor also includes an artist residency, during which McDonald will present a public talk at MIT on April 14, 2018 about her performances in musical theater, film and television.

Art, Science and Social Practice: The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Welcomes Professor B. Stephen Carpenter II as the Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence

Stephen Carpenter II, Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), and Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, will combine art, science and social practice to demonstrate how to enhance practices and possibilities for sustainability through socially engaged art and education.

MIT Museum Presents North American Premiere of Groundbreaking Virtual Reality Experience “The Enemy” By Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa

The project immerses participants in discussions about violence and humanity by using pioneering VR technology to present interviews with soldiers on opposite sides of conflicts in Israel and Palestine, The Congo, and El Salvador.

MIT Museum Presents György Kepes Photography

The MIT Museum will honor Professor György Kepes (1906- 2001), one of the most influential art practitioners, educators and writers of the twentieth century, through two exhibitions featuring rare and never-before-seen photographs that span more than four decades of his creative practice.

First Solo US Exhibition of Works by Patrick Tourneboeuf

The MIT Museum’s Kurtz Gallery for Photography presents the first solo US exhibition of French photographer Patrick Tourneboeuf (b. Paris, 1966) in The Diamond Trace: Kimberley South Africa in Photographs.Tourneboeuf examines the afterlife of Kimberley, South Africa, a city that grew after the discovery of a large diamond, and declined when the gems became scarce. Through captivating images of its streets and squares, center and outskirts, stadium and cemetery, and famous “Big Hole,” Tourneboeuf examines the social landscape of Kimberley.

An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art

An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art,
a group exhibition curated by Henriette Huldisch, brings together works by Andrea Büttner, Sophie Calle, Alejandro Cesarco, Jason Dodge, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antonia Hirsch, Jill Magid, Park McArthur, Lisa Tan, Erika Vogt, Susanne M. Winterling, and Anicka Yi.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Charlotte Moth: Seeing while Moving

Paris-based artist Charlotte Moth’s first US solo

exhibition Seeing while Moving features photography, sculpture, slide projection, and film. Moth

grounds her practice in documenting architectural spaces, both exterior and interior, as well as

the objects housed within.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds

Gwenneth Boelens’s sculptural and photographic work is concerned with perception, memory, and time. The artist’s show at the List Center, her first solo museum exhibition, features a group of recently produced large-scale photograms.

MIT Names Cellist Maya Beiser Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)

Beiser to collaborate with faculty on three new performances in MIT’s Sounding Series, and present master classes with MIT students

MIT’s Center for Art Science & Technology (CAST) Presents Symposium Exploring Contemporary Convergences of Digital and Material Worlds

BEING MATERIAL will draw leading artists, scientists, engineers, and scholars from around the world to explore the future of programmable materials, 3D/4D printing, synthetic biology, and wearable technologies.

Visiting Artist Jacob Collier Premieres Newly Arranged Works at MIT’s Annual Sounding Series

MIT Museum Celebrates Grand Re-Opening of Gestural Engineering Exhibit with an Evening with Arthur Ganson

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke and Fire

Edgar Arceneaux’s work in sculpture, drawing, and film reflects on cultural and personal memory, and is informed by the belief that all modes of inquiry and systems of knowledge are contingent.

Grazia Toderi and Désiré Despradelle: Spectacular Cities

Despite careers separated by a century, architect Désiré Despradelle (1862–1912) and artist Grazia Toderi (b. 1963) share a conception of the city and urban architecture as spectacle.

MIT Museum Hosts 19th (XIX) Annual Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction Event on Friday November 25th

MIT Appoints Pedro Reyes the Inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist

The artist launches a new residency at MIT, designed for research and development of new work.

New Design Minor (D-Minor) to launch in Fall 2016

The Department of Architecture will launch a new Minor in Design (D-Minor) in Fall 2016.

Tala Madani: First Light

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents the first American solo museum exhibition by Tehran-born, Los Angeles-based artist Tala Madani.

Villa Design Group: The Tragedy Machine

Villa Design Group creates sculptures, videos, and scripted performances inspired by the formal languages of architecture, theater, and the decorative arts.

List Projects: Narrative Color

List Projects: Narrative Color considers the relationship between color and narrative in a small selection of artists’ films and videos made since 1970.

MIT Museum Opens New Exhibition: Imagining New Technology: Building MIT In Cambridge

When MIT President Rafael Reif and Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons place small replicas of MIT’s Dome and Cambridge’s City Hall into a collaboratively built 3D model at the new exhibition at the MIT Museum, they will be launching a project that the combined MIT/Cambridge community will help to create over the life of the exhibit—a crowd-sourced 3D printed model of the MIT campus and surrounding community.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologize…

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present the culmination of a major project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, I Must First Apologize, an exhibit featuring an extensive body of work that looks at the history of online spam and scamming through film, sculpture, photography, and installation.

List Projects: Ann Hirsch

Ann Hirsch’s work in video and performance considers the effects of technology on popular culture; many of her projects examine how young women are portrayed and present themselves in social media and online.

David Adjaye To Lead Three Panel Discussions on Future of the Library, Campus, and Museum at MIT

The 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts recipient will address 21^st century challenges in public architecture and planning during his residency on campus.

Dasha Zhukova Gives MIT $1M to Launch Distinguished Visiting Artist Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce a gift of $1M to establish the Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist Program.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents a major exhibition of work by acclaimed Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba, her most comprehensive show in North America to date

MIT Sounding 2015-16 New Music Series

Headliners: Maya Beiser, Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib’s Persona, Johnny Gandelsman, FLUX Quartet, Pamela Z

Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst

Exhibition on view at the Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museum, September 5, 2015 – January 3, 2016

Architect David Adjaye Awarded 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Award includes $100K prize, artist residency, gala and four public programs at MIT

List Projects: Lina Viste Grønli

Through mediums that include sculpture, photography, collage, and writing, Lina Viste Grønli investigates the tensions between physical things and abstract systems, particularly those of linguistics and philosophy.

Anicka Yi: 6,070,430K of Digital Spit

In combining seemingly permanent and perishable materials, Anicka Yi’s work reorders the cultural forces that privilege containment over leakage, clarity over ambiguity, and vision above all other senses.

MIT Sean Collier Memorial

Situated on MIT’s campus in honor of Officer Sean Collier who was shot and killed on April 18^th 2013, the Collier Memorial marks the site of tragedy with a timeless structure—translating the phrase “Collier Strong” into a space of remembrance through a form that embodies the concept of strength through unity.

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) receives $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

MIT Wind & Festival Jazz Ensemble: Infinite Winds

On their new and musically diverse release Infinite Winds, the MIT Wind Ensemble and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble present three long form compositions by three innovative and highly regarded composers: Guillermo Klein, Chick Corea and Don Byron.

Legendary audio engineer, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton to lecture at MIT

Hip Hop Speaker Series Part 1.

Young Guru: Design and Destruction lecture on March 6
Legendary audio engineer, educator and DJ, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton is one of the men behind the iconic sound of world-renowned artist Jay-Z.

Images of Discovery: communicating Science through Photography

The MIT Museum presents Images of Discovery: Communicating Science through Photography, a unique exhibition that includes imagemaking stations providing visitors with direct experiences related to the work of Harold “Doc” Edgerton, and Berenice Abbott; and contemporary practitioner Felice Frankel.

MIT Museum presents Photographing Places: The Photographers of Places Journal, 1987-2009

The MIT Museum presents a comprehensive exhibition of photography that appeared in every issue of the environmental design journal Places from 1987-2009.

MIT Presents New Music Series: MIT Sounding

Featuring World Premieres, Reconstructed Classics, and Grammy Award winning musicians in new concert series

U.S. Pavilion at 56th International Art Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia to Feature New Installation by Joan Jonas

Presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

MIT Museum Presents Kinetic Art Exhibition 5000 Moving Parts

Features large-scale works by leading contemporary kinetic artists:
Arthur Ganson, Anne Lilly, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and John Douglas Powers November 21, 2013 – January 19, 2015

MIT Museum Announces New Exhibition of Holograms and the 9th International Symposium on Display Holography

The MIT Museum announces the opening on June 27, 2012 of The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography, an exhibition created in conjunction with the 9th International Symposium on Display Holography, co-sponsored by the MIT Museum and the MIT Media Lab.

Open Tunings

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 10, 2014 – January 9, 2015.

Thea Djordjadze

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 10, 2014 – January 9, 2015.

Olafur Eliasson at MIT for 2014 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

“Holding hands with the sun”: public lecture March 13, 2014, 5pm. Award includes artist residency, public events, $100,000 prize and gala.

9 Artists

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – July 13, 2014.

List Projects: Pauline Curnier Jardin

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center March 18–May 11, 2014.

Daguerre’s American Legacy

Photographic Portraits (1840-1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection. On view at the Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museum April 18, 2014 – January 4, 2015.

Vilcek Foundation Announces Winners of 2014 Vilcek Prizes for Design

Neri Oxman, the Sony Corporation
Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, selected as winner of Vilcek Prize for Design.

Sonia Almeida: Forward/Play/Pause

On view at the List Visual Arts Center February 7–April 6, 2014.

Hourly Directional: Helen Mirra and Ernst Karel

On view at the List Visual Arts Center February 7–April 6, 2014.

Hans Op de Beeck: Staging Silence (2)

On view at the List Visual Arts Center February 7–April 6, 2014.

List Projects: Kambui Olujimi

On view at the List Visual Arts Center January 21–February 23, 2014.

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

Award includes artist residency, pop-up exhibitions, public lecture, $100,000 prize and gala. MIT Students to work on Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project.

MIT Visiting Artists Program Roster 2013-14 Features Filmmakers, Musicians, Sound and Kinetic Artists

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology welcomes a new roster of visiting artists in the 2013-14 academic year working in a range of artistic disciplines — from kinetic art to film and sound art to music.

La Scala Chamber Orchestra Performs “Fantasies from Verdi’s Operas”

A special concert at MIT celebrates the renewal of the research collaboration with Eni.

Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Égypte

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 18, 2013 – January 5, 2014,

New Critical Band Plays Martland

Evan Ziporyn’s new Boston-based ensemble, Critical Band, will play works for winds and amplified instruments by Steve Martland, Joel Roston and Ziporyn on its debut concert at MIT Kresge Auditorium.

Stanley Greenberg: Time Machines

Photography exhibition depicts the cutting edge of modern experimental physics, providing a glimpse at places and objects rarely seen. On view at the MIT Museum September 13, 2013 – March 30, 2014 in the Kurtz Gallery for Photography.

Geoff Hargadon to Chair MIT List Visual Arts Center Advisory Committee

New members Karen Arenson, Brit d’Arbeloff, Carolyn Fine Friedman and Ellan Spero.

MIT music documentary pays tribute to the Arab Spring

First MIT Video produced especially for broadcast television Jamshied Sharifi’s composition performed by MIT Wind Ensemble.

MIT Members Invited to Color Nighttime Sky with Pilobolus & UP: The Umbrella Project

A collaboration between the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and internationally acclaimed dance company Pilobolus, UP will bring together members of the MIT community to participate in a large-scale live performance piece using umbrellas outfitted with LED lights.

Nairy Baghramian: Fluffing the Pillows

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – July 14, 2013.

Alan Uglow: Standards and Portraits

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – July 14, 2013.

List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – June 30, 2013.

Compass Points: Joël Tettamanti

The MIT Museum presents first US Exhibition by hotographer Joël Tettamanti. Compass Points: Joël Tettamanti is on view February15 through August 31, 2013.

Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things

Originating in Germany, this traveling exhibition was developed by the Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with Hi-Cone, and includes an array of 36 classic objects embodies ideals of modernism that are both relevant and popular among students and young people. On view at the MIT Museum April 13 – September 27, 2013.

MIT Presents a Spectrum of Sound Art for CAST Spring Sound Series

Spring 2013 marks MIT’s first Spring Sound Series, presenting 20 artists on the forefront of sound art in four genre bending concerts, 12 lecture-demos and the film Trimpin: The Sound of Invention.

Chick Corea Premiere to Mark 50th Anniversary of Jazz at MIT April 27th at Kresge Auditorium

In Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jazz at MIT, Chick Corea, NEA Jazz Master and recipient of 18 Grammy awards, is composing a work for the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble.

Amalia Pica

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center February 8, 2013 – April 7, 2013.

Oliver Laric: Versions

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center February 8 – April 7, 2013.

Muntadas: About Academia

Antoni Muntadas, the Spanish-born, New York-based artist, is the second Audain Visual Artist in Residence for the 2012/13 year.

Tomás Saraceno astonishes once more

His art is “hanging” from 25 October 2012 to 3 February 2012 in HangarBicocca, Milan.

Tomas Saraceno is Inaugural Visiting Artist in Newly Established Center for Art, Science & Technology

Tomás Saraceno, Vik Muniz & Don Byron Among MIT’s Eight Visiting Artists. Creative artists enhance MIT’s culture of innovation while connecting faculty and students from across the Institute.

In the Holocene

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 19, 2012 – January 6, 2013.

MIT establishes a Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)

$1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST

MIT Dedicates Monumental Sculpture by International Artist Cai Guo-Qiang

Ring Stone joins MIT Public Art Collection as artist’s first work for a university campus.

Joachim Koester: To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown…

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 10 – July 8, 2012.

MIT Museum Opens New Photography Gallery

Inaugural exhibition Berenice Abbott. Photography and Science: An Essential Unity

MIT Hosts Robert Lepage: 2012 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts Recipient

Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT among the most generous cultural prizes in the US; Lepage campus residency includes public programs, collaboration with MIT students, and a gala.

Composer Jamshied Sharifi Presents World Premiere at MIT: Work Recognizes the Arab Spring

Sharifi’s Awakening commissioned by and for MIT Wind Ensemble premieres March 17. Panel discussion on the Arab Spring with MIT community on March 13.

Akram Zaatari: Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright

On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center February 10 – April 8, 2012.