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Guillermo Klein. Credit Andrea Bocallini.

Guillermo Klein

A stellar collision of vocal jazz, Latin music, and poetry

Structure with blue scaffolding and small green transparent squares.

Close up view of the Memory Matrix at MIT, 2016. Credit: Fadi Massod.

Memory Matrix

A solidarity-building and educational enterprise

Tomás Saraceno, Aerocene, GrandPalais, 2015. Photo: Studio Saraceno.

Behind the Artwork: Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene Project

“With Lodovica [Illari] and Bill [McKenna], we are trying to reimagine how human beings will navigate around the world,” says artist Tomás Saraceno, describing the lofty goal of his Aerocene project. These emission-free floating sculptures, made from silver and transparent … Continued

Johnny Gandelsman performs in MIT Kresge Auditorium, February 2020. Credit: Leon Yim.

Johnny Gandelsman

Violinist Gandelsman "plays with a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination" —Boston Globe

Amanda Crider and Lacey Dorn preforming in Persona workshop at MIT, 2015.

Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib’s Persona

Visceral new operatic adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film

Lara Baladi

Archiving revolution

Informal development in the northern peripheries of Mumbai, India, 2015. Credit: Matthew Niederhauser, John Fitzgerald, and the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism

John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser

Capturing the pace and process of global suburbanization

“Generative drawing” critique, 4.022 Architectural Design Fundamentals, 2015. Photo: S. Lacey.

Transcending The Algorithm: Architecture Students Create Generative Drawings

With his canvas stretched on the floor, Jackson Pollock dipped brushes or sticks into paint cans; then he drew in the air, dripping paint on the canvas, hovering, leaning, lunging, and gesturing here and there with varying speed. His pace, … Continued

Ge Wang, “The Art of Designing Electronic Music,” Ge Wang and Eran Egozy talks, MIT Museum, 2015. Photo: L. Barry Hetherington.

Ge Wang

Computer Maestro

Students reach for one of several earbuds and ipods suspended above.

Student installation for “The Harmonic Archive,” 2014.

The Harmonic Archive: Music, Sound & Installation Art as Artistic Research

Anyone who rides public transportation has likely experienced this breach of commuter etiquette: fellow passengers’ oblivion to the tinny blare emanating from their headphones. Students enrolled in “The Harmonic Archive: Music, Sound & Installation Art as Artistic Research” have used … Continued

A large archway made of geometric interlocking purple and pink panels on a metal frame.

Credit: Wikimedia

Chuck Hoberman

With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms

2012

Composer Libby Larsen. Courtesy of the Artist.

Libby Larsen

Composer and articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time

2004

Santiago Calatrava. Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times.

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava is well known for his neofuturist style and his wild feats of engineering. The Milwaukee Art Museum, his first building in the United States, is famous for its shading “wings” that open and close in response to the position of the sun.

2005

Playwright and screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Pulitzer-winning dramatist

2006

A man sits behind a laptop and a music stand.

David Sheppard. Image courtesy of the artist.

David Sheppard

Realizing visionary new artworks through live performance and cutting-edge technology

A collection of many small musical instruments

Small Instruments, visiting artist Pawel Romanczuk

Pawel Romanczuk, Small Instruments

Complex sounds from small instruments

2014

Underwater photograph of a person diving into the water

Bill Viola, Five Angels for the New Millennium, 2001. Credit: Kira Perov.

Bill Viola

Instrumental in establishing video as a vital medium of contemporary art

2009

Gustavo Dudamel conducts.

Gustavo Dudamel

Acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and compelling conductors of our time, Gustavo Dudamel’s infectious energy and exceptional artistry have made him one of the most sought-after conductors by orchestras and opera companies around the world.

2010