Es Devlin draws Come Home Again, Tate Modern, 2024. Image courtesy of Es Devlin.
Visiting Artists
Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.
Golden City
An extended musical composition for Large Ensemble, inspired by California’s rich and complex history.
Professor Jen Light performs partner acrobatics
Thinking on Your Feet
Exploring the potentials of embodied education through dance
KINETIC. Photo credit: Ben Doyle
Kinetic Ensemble
“Agile virtuosity and vibrant sound… brilliantly executed” — Arts and Culture Texas
Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Queer Assemblies
Three installations evoking famed architect Bruce Goff’s eclectic palette
Derek David. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist.
Di Fayerdike Libe – Passionate Love – די פֿײַערדיקע ליבע
Exploring modern love through Yiddish music and culture
Magma Matter, Cristina Parreño Alonso, Courtesy of the artist.
Magma Matter
Reconsidering the aesthetics of function
Michael Mayo. Image credit: Lauren Desberg
Michael Mayo
Layers of heavenly harmonizing, hard-hitting beatboxing, and heartfelt crooning
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
Joshua Bennett performs America Will Be (2022).
The People’s Poetry Archive
Uniting voices with a living archive of African diaspora poetry
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
Jackson 2bears | Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri. 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.