All CAST Projects
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
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
Topdara Stupa, Parwan, Afghanistan. Point-cloud by Nikolaos Vlavianos, On-site data collection Moby Group.
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan
Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan
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
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.
The Conquered
A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
The Deep Time Project. Courtesy of Cristina Parreño Alonso.
The Deep Time Project
Reframing current global challenges from the deep (planetary) and shallow (human) timescales
Portrait of Andreas Refsgaard. Courtesy of the artist, credit Nima Hajarzadeh.
Machine Learning and the Arts
Exploring the creative potential of emerging digital technologies
In Search of the Buried River. At the heart of the story is Mill Creek, a river that was buried in a sewer, and a West Philadelphia neighborhood that bears its name. Credit: Melissa Isidor
Claiming the Future
What does it mean for research to be racially just and restorative?
Dancers of the Oakland Ballet Company perform at the Dancing Moons Festival at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, California, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022.
Ballet des Porcelaines
A story of magic, desire, and exotic entanglement
Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project. Image courtesy of the artist.
Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project
History is made through the objects we save and the stories we tell about them
DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.
Climate Inheritance
World Heritage at Risk
Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.
Two Mobility Futures 0∞
Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all
The Hammer and the Feather is an immersive audio and visual installation, developed at MIT by technical instructor Christian Frederickson and visual artist and filmmaker Greg King. Bridging humanistic and scientific inquiry, the piece uses gravity as a poetic and conceptual departure point for musical, visual, and sonic material.
Photo by Danny Goldfield
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The Hammer and the Feather
Exploring the sonic poetry of gravityNew Resonances: Iva Bittová in Concert
October 15, 2022 / 7:00pmKresge Auditorium, MIT Building W1648 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Iva Bittová, vocals and violin2022 MIT CAST Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist Featuring: MIT Vocal Jazz EnsembleLaura Grill Jaye, Director Leo Eguchi, cello Natalie Lin Douglas, violin Reynaliz … Continued
Queer-Feminist-Antiracism Future and Design for the Future cotaught by Danielle Wood (top left) and J. Austin Eyer (bottom right) with guest artists Jennifer Harrison Newman (center top) and Paul Lieber (bottom center).
Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future
Exploring dynamics of intersectional identities in complex systems and theater
Water Wars: Episode 2, The Eternal Swamp. Illustration by Sarnath Banerjee
Water Wars
Demystifying social science through creative storytelling
Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica. Credit: Brandon Perdomo.
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Performance installation exploring the juxtapositions of multiplicities and the power of rising
Promesa Board Game: Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play. Image credit: HErickson/MIT.
