Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists.
Visiting Artists
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
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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 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
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
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
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
Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles, by Lydia Bourouiba and Argha Manna.
A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases
Critical role of paradigm shifts in science illustrated through respiratory infectious disease transmission
Exhibition opening reception, credit Heidi Erickson.