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Nicole L’Huillier 2020 Schnitzer First Prize
← 2020 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts Nicole L’Huillier First Place, 2020 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual ArtsMore about the artist El Poema de la Fábrica Cósmica (CERN, ALMA, ESO) Kinetic sonic sculpture. Installed at … Continued
Tutti
“[Tutti] is an example of using our mobile devices to enrich our lives musically in new ways—letting us have virtual experiences—such as feeling what it is like to be a musician.” –Eran Egozy, Project Lead and Professor of the Practice, … Continued
An interactive music-making experience that gives audiences the chance to perform using cellphones as instruments
2018 Creative Arts Competition supports arts-focused startups from idea to impact
On April 30, MIT’s yearlong suite of opportunities for student arts entrepreneurs culminated in the sixth annual Creative Arts Competition, a $15,000 prize for the most promising arts-focused startup at the Institute. Eight teams were selected as finalists (from 23 … Continued
Music/Tech: Christopher Janney
In 1976, Christopher Janney was one of only four graduate students to enroll in MIT’s new masters program in Environmental Art, where he first began his formal experiments combining architecture and jazz under Otto Piene, Director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, founded in 1967. His thesis, “SOUNDSTAIR: The Nature of Environmental/Participatory Art,” was performed on many iconic stairways — from the Spanish Steps in Rome to MIT’s own Building 7 — in which the dancer’s footsteps would trigger sounds, altered in real-time by Janney. In essence, the entire building became a musical instrument.