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Landscape image featuring large rock formations and a refined structure similar to a house made out of magma.
Magma Matter, Cristina Parreño Alonso, Courtesy of the artist.

Magma Matter

Reconsidering the aesthetics of function
The Attestation by Jeanette Andrews. Credit HErickson/MIT.

Jeanette Andrews

Exploring the bounds of perception and interpretation through magic
In the midst of a teal background, Michael Mayo smiles while standing casually with his gaze to the horizon.
Michael Mayo. Image credit: Lauren Desberg

Michael Mayo

Layers of heavenly harmonizing, hard-hitting beatboxing, and heartfelt crooning
Ekene Ijeoma, featuring Dr. Kristín Taylor, Dr. Bryan Stanley, Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 12 (2015) 2021. Software-generated score, incarceration data, piano, machine-plotted ink drawings, duration 18:12 min. Installation view, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA Photo by Colin Conces courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts

Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems
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
Joshua Bennett performs America Will Be (2022).

The People’s Poetry Archive

Uniting voices with a living archive of African diaspora poetry
Jordan Rudess performs with the jam_bot and Camilla Bäckman. Credit Caroline Alden.

Jordan Rudess

jam_bot: Exploring the Potential of AI in Live Collaborative Musical Performance
Chloe Bensahel sits facing the camera with one arm resting on a tapestry loom.
Chloe Bensahel. Courtesy of the artist.

Chloe Bensahel

Exploring smart textiles: weaving memory through innovation
Large scale projection installation at the Arachnodrone:Spider's Canvas performance at Palais de Tokyo.
*Spider's Canvas / Arachnodrone*, Palais de Tokyo, 2018. Credit: Aurelie Cenno.

Arachnodrone

A three-dimensional spider web soundscape
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

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

Dream Hotel

Incubating future dreamscapes
Jackson 2bears holding a clay mask with two hands in front of his face.
Jackson 2bears | Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri. 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 Echelman smiling in her "In Tension" Workshop at MIT.
Janet Echelman "In Tension" Workshop, MIT, 2023. Photo by Sham Sthankiya.

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
Digital rendering of translucent human tree-like forms against a black background.
One of the augmented-reality motifs in the new production of “Parsifal” at Bayreuth, directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Bayreuth Festival

Parsifal

Augmenting Richard Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel, Parsifal
A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building.
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
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
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