Visual Arts

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
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
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
Water Wars: Episode 2, The Eternal Swamp. Illustration by Sarnath Banerjee
Water Wars
Demystifying social science through creative storytelling
Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.
See Us Seesaw Together
Kinetic connection at a physical distance
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
Credit: Wikimedia
Chuck Hoberman
With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms
2012

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, Gestural Engineering. Credit: Joshi Radin.
Arthur Ganson
Kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson creates machines at once whimsical and philosophical
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

Image: Vik Muniz at MIT. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Vik Muniz
Shifts in scale, photographic manipulation, and unexpected materials
Mel Chin and Rick Lowe
Exploring the complexities of building healthy communities through art and activism
Guilherme Marcondes. Image Courtesy of the Artist
Guilherme Marcondes
Guilherme Marcondes makes captivating films and animations that probe the relationship between humans and our constructed environment.
2013

Scanner and Stephen Vitiello. Credit: Meg Rotzel
Scanner and Stephen Vitiello
Sonic investigations into bodily experience and spatial practice
"Grabbing at Newer Vegetables," Anicka Yi, The Kitchen, New York, 2015. Photo: Jason Mandella.
Anicka Yi
Investigating the powers of olfactory sensation
October 20-24, 2014 at the MIT List Visual Art Center

Tauba Auerbach at the CAST Symposium. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Tauba Auerbach
A visual distillation of complex mathematical and scientific concepts
SEEING
September 26, 2014
1:30 - 4:00 pm
Media Lab, E14-674

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