Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.
Faculty Projects
VALIS. Courtesy of Tod Machover.
VALIS
Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation
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
Ian Hattwick. Courtesy of the artist.
Ian Hattwick’s Instrument Design as Artistic Practice
Discovering new sounds and new forms of music-making
Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.
Jay Scheib’s The Silence
Dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down
Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.
Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces
Translating the cosmos into music
PhD student Sarah Schwettmann explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains.
3 Questions: Sarah Schwettmann on the interface between art and neuroscience
The MIT PhD student explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains. Computational neuroscientist Sarah Schwettmann is one of three instructors behind the cross-disciplinary course 9.S52/9.S916 Vision in Art and Neuroscience, which introduces students to … Continued
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
Ken Urban. Credit Kevin Thomas Garcia.
Ken Urban’s The Immortals
Tapping theater’s ability to transform
Stephanie Frampton. Courtesy of the artist.
Stephanie Frampton’s ARTificial Intelligence
Examining emerging ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence
"All The Light That's Ours To See," Judith Barry, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Judith Barry’s All The Light That’s Ours To See
Large-scale immersive installations
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
Dissolve Music
Ian Condry’s “Dissolve Music”
Dissolving boundaries between arenas of sonic engagement to identify paths towards alternative, more inclusive futures
Anna Kohler’s Mytho? Lure of Wildness
“A theatrical work about what looking feels like, to the muse and to her creator.” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker
Azra Aksamija, The Lightweaver, photomontage of a kinetic light installation for the Future Heritage Lab at the refugee camp Al Azraq, Jordan, 2017. Credit: Azra Aksamija.
Azra Akšamija’s Lightweaver
Enhancing the cultural fabric of refugee camps with adaptive smart textiles
Amanda Crider and Lacey Dorn preforming in Persona workshop at MIT, 2015.