All CAST Projects

Ekene Ijeoma, featuring Dr. Kristín Taylor, Dr. Bryan Stanley, Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 12 (2015) 2021. Software-generated score, incarceration data, piano, machine-plotted ink drawings, duration 18:12 min. Installation view, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA Photo by Colin Conces courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts

Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and performance

Albert Figurt, courtesy of the artist.

Albert Figurt

Exploring the many lives of the Desktop Narrative format

Spatial Frequencies drawing project, MIT Museum Studio 2022. Photo credit: Sarah Schwettmann.

Drawing Human Experience

Joshua Bennett performs America Will Be (2022).

The People’s Poetry Archive

Uniting voices with a living archive of African diaspora poetry

Tobias Putrih's CoD. Courtesy of the artist.

Creating Art – Thinking Science

Reimagining creative expression with emerging technologies

Portrait of Jordan Rudess. Photo credit KOBARU.PL

Jordan Rudess

Exploring the potential of AI in live collaborative musical performance

Chloe Bensahel. Courtesy of the artist.

Chloe Bensahel

Exploring smart textiles: weaving memory through innovation

*Spider's Canvas / Arachnodrone*, Palais de Tokyo, 2018. Credit: Aurelie Cenno.

Arachnodrone

A three-dimensional spider web soundscape

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Sung Tieu: Not Fracking Around

A solo show concurrently on view at MIT, Civic Floor, builds on Tieu’s investigations into a banal genre of psychological discipline: the hostility, violence and paranoia embedded in supposedly neutral bureaucratic spaces and architectures.

June 20, 2023

Clarice Assad sings with MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble at Hearing Amazonia performance in March 2023. Credit: Caroline Alden.

MIT Sounding 2022-23

Contemporary music with a global cast The 2022–23 season of the innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding continues to expand musical boundaries. MIT Sounding presents unique artists who push the envelope of their respective genres, creating new evolving music for the 21st century. … Continued

Xavi Laida Aguirre'sProofing: Resistant and Ready at the Venice Biennale, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Proofing: Resistant and Ready

Exploring the promises and pitfalls of plasticity

Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.

Testbeds

A new life for the byproducts of architectural design

Clarice Assad. Courtesy of the artist. Credit: Marcelo Macaue.

Clarice Assad

Dream Hotel, AI sketches. Image credit: Alejandro Medina.

Dream Hotel

Incubating future dreamscapes

Jackson 2bears Leween. Courtesy of the artist.

Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe

Addressing questions of identity, the body, heritage, ancestry, and technology from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective

Janet Echleman. Photo credit: Roser Brothers.

Janet Echelman

Dancer Marcus McGregor in Dan Safer's History of Empires. Credit Christopher L. Hicken.

The History of Empires

Cheerfully nihilistic dance/theater by the iconoclastic Witness Relocation/Dan Safer

One of the augmented-reality motifs in the new production of “Parsifal” at Bayreuth, directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Bayreuth Festival

Parsifal

Augmenting Richard Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel, Parsifal

A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building. Image: Nikolaos Vlavianos.

Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan

Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan

Installation view of Totem House, by studioSUMO, Crystal Bridges Museum. Image credit: Ironside Photography.

Histories of Negation | BLACK city: The Arkansas Edition

Giving presence to absent histories

Kazuko Ishii and a black telephone, TeleAbsence. Image courtesy of Hiroshi Ishii.

TeleAbsence

Addressing the vast emotional distance caused by the loss of a loved one

Map courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

Native America: The Choctaw Music of Charles Shadle

Capturing contemporary classical music by a living Choctaw composer

Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

A punk-rock mentality breathes new life into a 350-year-old art form

Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.

The Conquered

A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology