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Interior of a Testbeds garden greenhouse
Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.

Testbeds

A new life for the byproducts of architectural design
Clarice Assad. Courtesy of the artist. Credit: Marcelo Macaue.

Clarice Assad

Jackson 2bears Leween holding a clay mask with two hands in front of his face.
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
Janet Echleman smiles at the camera wearing a statement white glasses
Janet Echleman. Photo credit: Roser Brothers.

Janet Echelman

Dancer Marcus McGregor dancing in a white tall crown-shaped hat.
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
Aerial view of the Topdara Stupa in the dark.
Topdara Stupa, Parwan, Afghanistan. Point-cloud by Nikolaos Vlavianos, On-site data collection Moby Group.

Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan

Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan
View of the Totem House installation in a forest.
Installation view of Totem House, by studioSUMO, Crystal Bridges Museum. Image credit: Ironside Photography.

Histories of Negation | BLACK city: The Arkansas Edition

Giving presence to absent histories
Photograph of Kazuko Ishii sits on a desk behind a black rotary telephone.
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 of Native American Nations in Oklahoma.
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
A dark lit and highly saturated image of a forest.
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.

The Conquered

A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
Circular images of deserted mountains and a rock sundial.
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
Illustrations of a turquoise droplet with bold "splash" text.
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
Melissa Isidor standing in Mill Creek with a map of the area.
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

Claiming the Future

What does it mean for research to be racially just and restorative?
Two ballet dancers in floral leotards and hat piece on stage.
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
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
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
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 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

Front Porch Collective

A black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater
Adesola Akinleye faces the camera and smiles.
Portrait of Adesola Akinleye. Credit: Foteini Christofilopoulou.

Adesola Akinleye

Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space
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