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Film/Photography

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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and performance
A man holds a mirror up to his face that shows a distorted image of himself on a computer screen.
Albert Figurt, courtesy of the artist.

Albert Figurt

Exploring the many lives of the Desktop Narrative format
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

Making Change: In Place Over Time

What does it mean for research to be racially just and restorative?
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
Volumetric Cinema. Credit David Levine.
Volumetric Cinema. Credit David Levine.

Volumetric Cinema

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient
Informal development in the northern peripheries of Mumbai, India, 2015. Credit: Matthew Niederhauser, John Fitzgerald, and the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism
Informal development in the northern peripheries of Mumbai, India, 2015. Credit: Matthew Niederhauser, John Fitzgerald, and the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism

John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser

Capturing the pace and process of global suburbanization
Underwater photograph of a person diving into the water
Bill Viola, Five Angels for the New Millennium, 2001. Credit: Kira Perov.

Bill Viola

Instrumental in establishing video as a vital medium of contemporary art
2009
A man looks into a miscroscope.
Image: Vik Muniz at MIT. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.

Vik Muniz

Shifts in scale, photographic manipulation, and unexpected materials
Keith Ellenbogen, Photograph of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist.

Keith Ellenbogen

Using ultra high-speed cameras to showcase underwater worlds in exquisite detail.
John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul.
John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington

John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul

The films of John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul, founders of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, are the catalyst for an exploration of the overarching theme of “cinematic migrations.”
Katerina Cizek
Katerina Cizek, Courtesy of the artist

Katerina Cizek

Pioneer in participatory and interactive documentary production
October 2-4, 2013
Trevor Paglen, Courtesy of the Artist

Trevor Paglen

Constructing the unfamiliar and meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us

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