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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
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 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
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
Glenn Branca. Credit: Maria Jose Govea.
Glenn Branca. Credit: Maria Jose Govea.

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Honoring a pioneer of the avant-garde
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
CAST Visiting Artist Billy Novick performs in The Great Clarinet Summit. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.
CAST Visiting Artist Billy Novick performs in The Great Clarinet Summit. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.

Billy Novick

"Sincerity... elegance... a lovely celebration of tunefulness" — Downbeat
Luciana Souza. Credit Kim Fox.
Luciana Souza. Credit Kim Fox.

Luciana Souza

Brazilian-born vocalist and Grammy winner "organically crosses genre borders"
A self-portrait, line drawing of Rosa Colón Guerra, by the artist.
Rosa Colón Guerra. Courtesy of the artist.

Rosa Colón Guerra

Challenging colonialist narratives through board games
"Grabbing at Newer Vegetables," Anicka Yi, The Kitchen, New York, 2015. Photo: Jason Mandella.

Anicka Yi

Investigating the powers of olfactory sensation
October 20-24, 2014 at the MIT List Visual Art Center
A woman speaks at a podium.
Tauba Auerbach at the CAST Symposium. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.

Tauba Auerbach

A visual distillation of complex mathematical and scientific concepts
SEEING September 26, 2014 1:30 - 4:00 pm Media Lab, E14-674
Christian Bök. Courtesy of the artist.
Christian Bök. Courtesy of the artist.

Christian Bök

Genetically engineered poetry
Jenna Sutela, nimiia seance, 2018. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff / Somerset House Studios.
Jenna Sutela, nimiia seance, 2018. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff / Somerset House Studios.

Jenna Sutela

Interspecies communicator using living material to explore the unknown
A performer appears surrounded by threads of light.
NERVOUS SYSTEM by Andrew Schneider. Alicia ayo Ohs and Andrew Schneider.

Andrew Schneider

Interactive media artist
Tomás Saraceno stands within a large artwork made of black cables and clear orbs.
Tomás Saraceno, Biosphere MW32/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City, 2007. Courtesy: Tomás Saraceno. Credit: Rokma.

Tomás Saraceno

Inflatable and airborne biospheres that expand our thermodynamic imagination
REVERBERATIONS September 25, 2014 MIT Museum SENSING September 27, 2014 2:00 – 5:00 pm Media Lab, MIT Building E14-674
Joel Fan. Courtesy of the artist.
Joel Fan. Courtesy of the artist.

Joel Fan

Soaring and virtuosic pianist
Adrienne Truscott. Credit: Allison Michael Orenstein. © 2018 Adrienne Truscott.
Adrienne Truscott. Credit: Allison Michael Orenstein. © 2018 Adrienne Truscott.

Adrienne Truscott

Genre-straddling performance artist
BIC in concert at MIT. Credit: Caroline Alden.
As part of MIT Sounding, Haitian rapper, poet and singer BIC performs his work in collaboration with Jean Appolon Expressions, a Cambridge-based Haitian contemporary dance company. Photo by Caroline Alden.

BIC

Bringing Kreyòl music and digital poetry to MIT
Artist standing in front of a large wall painting.
Matthew Ritchie at the ICA, where the British-born, New York-based artist had an 18-month residency. Credit: Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe.

Matthew Ritchie

Artistic explorations of existence and scale
Karin Coonrod. Credit: Marina Levitskaya.
Karin Coonrod. Credit: Marina Levitskaya.

Karin Coonrod

Far-reaching inventiveness
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