Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Fay Chandler Seed Grant
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
Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.
Testbeds
A new life for the byproducts of architectural design
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
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.
The Conquered
A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
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?
Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project. Image courtesy of the artist.
Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project
History is made through the objects we save and the stories we tell about them
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
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The Hammer and the Feather
Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity
Promesa Board Game: Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play. Image credit: HErickson/MIT.
Promesa: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation
Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play
Natalia deCampos and Fabio Tavares perform in a workshop of Immense Joy/Hots. Credit: Ana Busto.
Immense Joy / H.o.t.S
Clarice Lispector’s brutal and tender exploration of what it truly means to be poor
Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.
See Us Seesaw Together
Kinetic connection at a physical distance
Cristina Parreño Alonso
Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Tectonics of Wisdom
Expanding architecture’s temporal sensibilities through the material ancient wisdom of the library
Viola Ago and Hans Tursack. Courtesy of the artists.
Hans Tursack and Viola Ago’s Understorey
Toward a twenty-first century ecological design
Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.
Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces
Translating the cosmos into music
Playwright and MIT Senior Lecturer Ken Urban's The Immortals, recipient of a CAST Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant, is a work in progress by playwright Ken Urban, draws from the strange and troubling case of Henrietta Lacks. Credit Melissa Blackall.
Observations from The Immortals workshop at MIT
Students share their experiences from a workshop with theater professionals Director Logan Vaughn, dramaturg Ignacia Delgado, and actors Heather Alicia Simms, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Naomi Jacobson, and Jordan Geiger came together at MIT to work with Ken Urban, Senior Lecturer … Continued
Stephanie Frampton. Courtesy of the artist.
Stephanie Frampton’s ARTificial Intelligence
Examining emerging ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence
Brandon Clifford. Courtesy of the artist.
Brandon Clifford’s Filament: Megaphones at the New York Philharmonic
Breaking the proscenium tradition of the symphony
Marcus Thompson's Faculty Recital, 2018. Credit: L Barry Hetherington/MIT.
Marcus A. Thompson’s Faculty Recital
Fay Chandler Creativity Grant
