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Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Tectonics of Wisdom

Expanding architecture’s temporal sensibilities through the material ancient wisdom of the library

Three people pose next to a geometric architectural installation.

The Open Collectives team is initiated by MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab founded and directed by architect Rafi Segal (back right), in collaboration with MIT Civic Data Design Lab director Sarah Williams (front), artist Marisa Morán Jahn (left), and futurist Greg Lindsay (not pictured). Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn.

Rafi Segal and Marisa Jahn’s Architecture for New Collectives

Tent installation of Azra Aksamija's exhibition, Displaced Empire.

Azra Aksamija, Displaced Empire, 2021. The Imperial Banner depicts refugee designs as a conduit for heritage and cultural reproduction at Azraq. Laser burned drawing on denim. Courtesy of the MIT Future Heritage Lab.

Azra Akšamija’s Displaced Empire

How does Al Azraq Refugee Camp live together?

Portrait of Adesola Akinleye. Credit: Foteini Christofilopoulou.

Adesola Akinleye

Investigating the embodied choreography of urban space

Lupe Fiasco. Courtesy of the artist.

Lupe Fiasco

Breaking down and building up the languages of rap

As part of the 2019-20 MIT Sounding series, Lochan Rijal, an award winning multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter from Nepal, performed a public concert of Nepali music featuring original compositions played on traditional Nepali instruments. Photo by Caroline Aldenr. Please ask before use.

Lochan Rijal

Sharing the rich heritage of traditional Nepalese music

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

Lakaï Dance Theatre. Credit: Nadelle Scott.

Lakaï Dance’s The Block: An Afro-Musical

Sharing personal stories and narratives through movement

Iva Bittová. Courtesy of the artist.

Iva Bittová

Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer

Glenn Branca. Credit: Maria Jose Govea.

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Honoring a pioneer of the avant-garde

Harry Allen. Courtesy of the Artist.

Harry Allen and Rob Swift

MIT hosts harbanger, a battle DJ septet

Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.

Jay Scheib’s The Silence

Dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down

Constanza Macras. Credit: Thomas Aurin.

Constanza Macras

Building dance theater from the ground up

Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan perform The Day at Jacobs Pillow. Credit: Hayim Heron. Courtesy of Jacobs Pillow.

The Day

Artists collaborate on a sensory exploration of life and the eternal

Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.

Elena Ruehr’s Songs from Extrasolar Spaces

Translating the cosmos into music

Jay Scheib's In the Jungle of Cities. Courtesy of the artist.

Jay Scheib’s In the Jungle of Cities

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

Image: Playwright and MIT Senior Lecturer Ken Urban's The Immortals. Credit Melissa Blackall.

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

Isabelle Su: "I control what part of the web the viewer sees while Ian Hattwick plays with the hearing distance. All the fibers within this hearing distance (in blue/white) are sonified while the fibers outside of this range (in green/brown) do not produce sound. Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth improvise with the web instrument, building on Ian's sound, with Evan on EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) and Christine on electric guitar with EBow."

A Three-Dimensional Spider Web Soundscape Comes to Life

Spider’s Canvas was performed February 16-18, 2019 at the MIT Building W97 Main Theater. Visit sounding.mit.edu for more information. Following the live performances, the piece was displayed in the MIT.nano Building 12 in Spring 2019. Spider’s Canvas / … Continued

Diversifying Space

A boundaryless exploration

Volumetric Cinema. Credit David Levine.

Volumetric Cinema

2018 Mellon Faculty Grant Recipient

CAST Visiting Artist Billy Novick performs in The Great Clarinet Summit. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.

Billy Novick

"Sincerity... elegance... a lovely celebration of tunefulness" — Downbeat

David Bowie's Blackstar performed by Maya Beiser with the Ambient Orchestra, 2017.

2018-19 MIT Sounding

Contemporary music with a global cast

The 2018–19 season of the innovative annual performance series MIT Sounding continues to blur musical boundaries. Curated by Evan Ziporyn, faculty director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), this season of MIT Sounding presents unique artists who push the envelope of their respective genres, creating new evolving music for the 21st century.

Ken Urban’s The Immortals

Tapping theater’s ability to transform