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Architecture Isn’t Just for Humans Anymore

In the remote desert of Nevada, MIT students design shelter for all species In a rural valley of northwestern Nevada, home to stretches of wetlands, sagebrush-grassland and dozens of natural springs, is a 3,800-acre parcel of off-grid land known … Continued

Layers of extruded white clay form lines and waves.

Misalignments by Dalma Földesi and Jung In Seo, 2020

Misalignments

Material misfits in the uncanny space of the inexact

Wuming Theater Club’s Das Kapital

Confronting capitalism through absurdist comedy

A large blue object sits against a white background.

Personal Thrill, part of A New Way of Play, by Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay and Sarah Wagner, 2020. Courtesy of the artists.

A New Way of Play

The forms and functions of participatory design and critical pedagogies

A large black inflated sculpture with spikes on the left side sits outside a building.

BUGS for Jonathan Goldman

A series of public sculptures inspiring new interactions and collective behaviors

A student works on a light-up LED garment on a mannequin.

Siranush Babakhanova and the garment she designed, with electronics by Thomas Sanchez Lengeling and Terry Kang.

Neoperceptions

Augmenting human perception with live performance technology

Infinite Magazine cover featuring a male model holding a rose.

Infinite Magazine Issue 2. Image courtesy of the artists.

Infinite

An MIT Undergraduate Student Fashion Collective

A student models a pink and brown outfit during a fashion show.

2018 CAMIT Grant, Trashion Show. Courtesy of the artists.

Trashion Show

Fashioning sustainability

Two actors read from scripts while others look on.

CAMIT Grant recipient MTA Playwrights Lab. Ayomide Fatunde '18, Jordan Clark, and Cody Sloan. Credit Sarah Wagner.

MTA Playwrights Lab

MIT's new play festival

A device made of interlocking wooden triangles with other metal and wire components.

CAMIT Grant Recipient Modular Rhythm Machine. Credit: Nicolás Kisic Aguirre

Modular Rhythm Machine

An exploration of rhythm, sound, public space, and power

An art gallery with small and large paintings and photographs.

CAMIT Grant Recipient Murals of Senior Haus Exhibition, MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery. Credit: Peter Downs.

Murals of Senior Haus

Find where you thrive

A row of five black-and-white photo portraits on a black background.

CAMIT Grant Recipient, Portraits of Resilience. Courtesy of the Artist.

Portraits of Resilience

Finding resilience and meaning in the face of anxiety and depression

Two students in black costumes perform on a stage with red and yellow lights and smoke effects.

CAMIT Grant Recipient, Meaning in the Making. Courtesy of the Artists.

Meaning in the Making

A Vibrant Spectacular of Mind, Hand, and Heart by Garrett Parrish, '17

Artists in white lab coats interact with a man in a reclining chair.

#mfaNOW Uncanny Cat Café. Credit: Hot Milks Foundation

The Uncanny Cat Café and Affective Induction Spa

Visit a future where the uncanny is catty and meow is now. Techno-Optimism turned inward. Sensations that make sense

Two actresses in red costumes perform an argument on stage.

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble's Marina.

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble: Marina

Summer 2017 production by the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble

A presenter on a stage with images of "Props Paper" behind her.

Props Paper at 2017 World Design Event Antenna. Credit: Jeroen van der Wielen.

PROPS PAPER

A weekly newspaper on contemporary practices in image-making.

A panel of five black-and-white images from an animation depicting a tree, a stick figure, and an apple.

Still from animated film "An Extra Dimension"

MIT Animation Group

Providing opportunities for students to learn about and create digital art and animation

Close-up photo of three people's hands trying out a black and white touchpad device.

E-Form Prototype Midi Controller demonstration at the 2017 Arts on the Radar event. Credit: Courtesy of the artist Willy Wu.

E-Form

An electronic music interface able to capture music’s nuances through human touch

A row of transparent bars with black designs illuminated from underneath.

Clickspace

Visualizing the instantaneous moments of translation that take place in a designer’s typical digital workflow

A man wearing a virtual reality headset.

September 55 VR piece, installation view, Istanbul, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of Deniz Tortum.

September 1955

A student paints a mural.

2017 Borderline Murals. Courtesy of the artists.

The Borderline Mural Project

Connecting people and places at MIT

The Amphibian SCUBA Diving simulator, a research project from the MIT Media Lab, lets users experience the underwater world through a high presence virtual reality system. Photo: James Day.

Amphibian

An immersive SCUBA diving experience through a terrestrial simulator

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

A series of glass plates with watercolor paintings are lined up in a row.

Model of a Drawing Process: Watercolor-Calculating. Credit: Onur Yüce Gün.

Onur Yüce Gün

Model of a Drawing Process: Watercolor-Calculating

A dancer in a black and purple costume with open vents in the fabric.

bioLogic Second Skin, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab. Photo: © 2012 Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab.

bioLogic

Growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin