One of the augmented-reality motifs in the new production of “Parsifal” at Bayreuth, directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Bayreuth Festival
Visiting Artists
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.
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
Making Change: In Place Over Time
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
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 gravity
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.
Promesa: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation
Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play
Sean Jones, Jazz at the Bistro. Courtesy of the artist.
Sean Jones
Under the auspices of CAST’s MIT Sounding series, It Must Be Now!, led by Fred Harris, brings together three leading musicians to collectively compose a large-scale work for MIT musicians on the overall theme of racial justice.
Braxton Cook. Credit Tom Van Scoyoc.
Braxton Cook
Under the auspices of CAST’s MIT Sounding series, It Must Be Now!, led by Fred Harris, brings together three leading musicians to collectively compose a large-scale work for MIT musicians on the overall theme of racial justice.
Terri Lyne Carrington. Credit: Jacobs.
Terri Lyne Carrington
Under the auspices of CAST’s MIT Sounding series, It Must Be Now!, led by Fred Harris, brings together three leading musicians to collectively compose a large-scale work for MIT musicians on the overall theme of racial justice.
Natalia deCampos and Fabio Tavares perform in a workshop of Immense Joy/Hots. Credit: Ana Busto.