Invisible Archives - Arts at MIT

Lisa Parks, Ph.D. is a media theorist who writes on television, satellites, drones, and infrastructures of surveillance. Parks, a Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, previously worked at UC Santa Barbara (1998-2016) where she chaired the Department of Film and Media Sudies … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Invisible Panel Discussion on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 11:00-1:00pm

Trevor Paglen, Courtesy of the Artist

Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen is an artist and geographer who explores and documents invisible infrastructures, ranging from secret corporate and government sites to networks known through technologies of non-human, machine vision. Paglen’s work spans through image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering and numerous other … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Invisible Panel Discussion on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 11:00-1:00pm

Michelle Murphy

Michelle Murphy is an historian of science, and the recent past who studies often invisible infrastructures of environmental toxins, reproductive technologies, and compromised environments. Murphy’s work is guided by questions of environmental and reproductive justice. She is the author of … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Invisible Panel Discussion on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 11:00-1:00pm

George Barbastathis

George Barbastathis is a mechanical engineer, known for creating an optical invisibility cloak, a calcite crystal system that may make possible hiding objects in plain sight. Barbastathis is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and holds the Singapore Research … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Invisible Panel Discussion on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 11:00-1:00pm

Sandy Alexandre

Sandy Alexandre writes on black American material culture—particularly literature and photographs—examining how histories of black displacement, invisibility and vulnerability haunt and energize the ways black lives matter now. Alexandre’s research spans the late nineteenth-century to present-day black American literature and … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Invisible Panel Discussion on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 11:00-1:00pm