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Two people in front of a piece showing small different symbols
Suket Dhir points to a detail on a jamdani weaving at the 2025 Artfinity ACT Lecture with Abhijit Banerjee. Photo: Gearoid Dolan.

Cheyenne Olivier & Suket Dhir

Weaving economic narratives through a traditional Bengali craft
Ana Rajcevic. Photo: Matjaz Rust.

Ana Rajcevic

Exploring embodiment through animal-inspired neuroprosthetics
In a gray space, fungi grow from a burgundy spot on the ground
Fungi prototype. Image courtesy of the artist.

Of Boar and Fungi: A Nuclear Love Affair

Exploring radioactive entanglements in post-Chernobyl forests
Green foliage inside a box in a dark room
Rendering for Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience. Courtesy of Joshua Higgason.

Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience

Blurring the digital and natural through immersive experience
TRACES, by Balsa Crosetto Piazzi & Giorgis Ortiz, 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Photo: Marcos Guiponi

Traces

Es Devlin draws Come Home Again, Tate Modern, 2024. Image courtesy of Es Devlin.

Es Devlin

Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and 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
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

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
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
DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.

Climate Inheritance

World Heritage at Risk
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
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
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
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Website, 2015, designed and engineered by NODE/Bengler. Photo: NODE/Bengler.

On the Record

Creating new shared territories for discursive and collaborative practices
A large archway made of geometric interlocking purple and pink panels on a metal frame.
Credit: Wikimedia

Chuck Hoberman

With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms
2012
A woman plays violin from within a spherical sculpture with holes
Julia Ogryzidiak, Okeanos, 2012. Credit: RJ Muna

Julia Ogrydziak

Creating experiential art works and performances that draw from architecture, art, electronic music, science, nature, and more
Arthur Ganson leans against a robotic artwork.
Arthur Ganson, Gestural Engineering. Credit: Joshi Radin.

Arthur Ganson

Kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson creates machines at once whimsical and philosophical
A seated woman looks up from a large book
Anne Lilly. Courtesy of the Artist

Anne Lilly

Anne Lilly’s sensuous and interactive sculptures connect physical realities with the interior world of the mind.
2014
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