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Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.

Golden City

An extended musical composition for Large Ensemble, inspired by California’s rich and complex history.
Orchestra playing at a stage with violet light setting.
KINETIC. Photo credit: Ben Doyle

Kinetic Ensemble

“Agile virtuosity and vibrant sound… brilliantly executed” — Arts and Culture Texas
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
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
A blurry image of a person dressed in black in a grey gallery
Xavi Laida Aguirre'sProofing: Resistant and Ready at the Venice Biennale, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Proofing: Resistant and Ready

Exploring the promises and pitfalls of plasticity
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
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
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
Two ballet dancers in floral leotards and hat piece on stage.
Dancers of the Oakland Ballet Company perform at the Dancing Moons Festival at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, California, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022.

Ballet des Porcelaines

A story of magic, desire, and exotic entanglement
DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.

Climate Inheritance

World Heritage at Risk
Installation view of Two Mobility Futures.
Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all
Installation view of humans in space from the Hammer and the Feather exhibit.
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 https://bit.ly/3a8YjxW Please ask before use

The Hammer and the Feather

Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity
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 rendering of exhibition, The Planet After Geoengineering.
Rania Ghosn/DESIGN EARTH, The Planet After Geoengineering, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

The Planet After Geoengineering

Speculative futures for planet Earth
Game pieces of gem and colorful map of the Promesa Board Game.
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
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

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