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Pianist Maki Namekawa in a leather jacket looking into the camera.
Maki Namekawa, Credit: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Maki Namekawa Presents Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett, Joe Hisaishi, Evan Ziporyn

DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.

Climate Inheritance

World Heritage at Risk
Installation view of Two Mobility Futures.
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 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
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
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
Profile view of Sean Jones playing the trumpet.
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
Talia Khan speaks into a microphone on stage in Kresge Auditorium with a large projection of images of Brazil behind her.
Hearing Amazonia performance, MIT Kresge Auditorium, November 2021. Image Credit: Danny Goldfield.

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
Lion's Jaw. Courtesy of the artists.

Lion’s Jaw

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

Rania Ghosn’s The Planet After Geoengineering

Speculative futures for planet Earth
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
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. 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
Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.
Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up
Image credit: Danny Goldfield.
Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.

Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces

Translating the cosmos into music
Jay Scheib's In the Jungle of Cities. Courtesy of the artist.
Jay Scheib's In the Jungle of Cities. Courtesy of the artist.

Jay Scheib’s In the Jungle of Cities

Volumetric Cinema. Credit David Levine.
Volumetric Cinema. Credit David Levine.

Volumetric Cinema

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient
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