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Installation view of humans in space from the Hammer and the Feather exhibit.

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 https://bit.ly/3a8YjxW Please ask before use

The Hammer and the Feather

Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity

Proton Animation. Courtesy of James LaPlante, Sputnik Animation. © MIT and Jefferson Lab, 2021, All Rights Reserved.

Visualizing the Proton

Illustrating the subatomic world

Black and white illustration of two people having a fist fight while others watch.

Water Wars: Episode 2, The Eternal Swamp. Illustration by Sarnath Banerjee

Water Wars

Demystifying social science through creative storytelling

Artists Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya standing together and smiling at the camera.

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

Game pieces of gem and colorful map of the Promesa Board Game.

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

A photo of a child in a military uniform reads "How to become a dictator in 12 steps."

How to become a Dictator in 12 steps. Detail from the interface for the Anatomy of Revolution website (in progress). [Photo of child, courtesy the Arab Image Foundation]. 2020.

Anatomy of Revolution

Archiving movements of protest

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 stands in front of a red background, holding his alto sax down at his waist.

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 smiles while playing on drums.

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.

A black and white photograph of Fabio Tavares (right) observing fellow performer Natalia deCampos (left) looking away from him, down to the left.

Natalia deCampos and Fabio Tavares perform in a workshop of Immense Joy/Hots. Credit: Ana Busto.

Immense Joy / H.o.t.S

Clarice Lispector’s brutal and tender exploration of what it truly means to be poor

Digital illustration of small human forms sitting on four black inflated oval tubes.

Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.

See Us Seesaw Together

Kinetic connection at a physical distance

2023 Hearing Amazonia

Hearing Amazônia–The Responsibility of Existence

Exploring the plight of the natural world through Brazilian and Amazonian music

A musical score.

VALIS. Courtesy of Tod Machover.

VALIS

Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation

Front Porch Collective

A black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater

Lion's Jaw. Courtesy of the artists.

Lion’s Jaw

Creating an environment where risk, rigor, and rebellion can flourish through dance

Adesola Akinleye faces the camera and smiles.

Portrait of Adesola Akinleye. Credit: Foteini Christofilopoulou.

Adesola Akinleye

Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space

Lupe Fiasco. Courtesy of the artist.

Lupe Fiasco

Breaking down and building up the languages of rap

Lochan Rijal speaks into a microphone while sitting on stage and holding a traditional Nepali instrument.

As part of the 2019-20 MIT Sounding series, Lochan Rijal, an award winning multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter from Nepal, performed a public concert of Nepali music featuring original compositions played on traditional Nepali instruments. Photo by Caroline Aldenr. Please ask before use.

Lochan Rijal

Sharing the rich heritage of traditional Nepalese music

Lakaï Dance Theatre. Credit: Nadelle Scott.

Lakaï Dance’s The Block: An Afro-Musical

Sharing personal stories and narratives through movement

Iva Bittová. Courtesy of the artist.

Iva Bittová

Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer

Glenn Branca. Credit: Maria Jose Govea.

Glenn Branca. Credit: Maria Jose Govea.

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Honoring a pioneer of the avant-garde

Harry Allen. Courtesy of the Artist.

Harry Allen. Courtesy of the Artist.

Harry Allen and Rob Swift

MIT hosts harbanger, a battle DJ septet

Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.

Jay Scheib’s The Silence

Dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down

Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.

Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up

Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan perform The Day at Jacobs Pillow. Credit: Hayim Heron. Courtesy of Jacobs Pillow.

Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan perform The Day at Jacobs Pillow. Credit: Hayim Heron. Courtesy of Jacobs Pillow.

The Day

Artists collaborate on a sensory exploration of life and the eternal