Multimedia Archives - Arts at MIT

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

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and performance

Albert Figurt, courtesy of the artist.

Albert Figurt

Exploring the many lives of the Desktop Narrative format

Portrait of Jordan Rudess. Photo credit KOBARU.PL

Jordan Rudess

Exploring the potential of AI in live collaborative musical performance

Chloe Bensahel. Courtesy of the artist.

Chloe Bensahel

Exploring smart textiles: weaving memory through innovation

Dream Hotel, AI sketches. Image credit: Alejandro Medina.

Dream Hotel

Incubating future dreamscapes

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

A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building. Image: Nikolaos Vlavianos.

Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan

Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan

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

Exhibition opening reception, credit Heidi Erickson.

Machine Learning and the Arts

Exploring the creative potential of emerging digital technologies

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

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

Jason Levine

Audiovisual artist and performer whose primary medium is code

A theater performance with a dragon sculpture.

Robert Lepage, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Metropolitan Opera. Credit: Ken Howard.

Robert Lepage

Versatile in every form of theater craft, Robert Lepage is equally talented as a director, playwright, actor and filmmaker

2012

An elevated hallway with side walls made of pink and purple tinted glass

Olafur Eliasson, Your rainbow panorama, 2006-2011. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Credit: Studio Olafur Eliasson.

Renowned for the multi-faceted practice of his studio in Berlin, Olafur Eliasson creates ambitious public art projects, large-scale installations, architectural pavilions, major art exhibitions, spatial experiments, sensory experiences, and a distinctive art and social business enterprise — Little Sun, a solar powered lamp that is “a work of art that works in life.”

2014