FAST Future Forum on the Arts Saturday, April 16, 2011 / 9:30 am – 8:30 pm MIT Media Lab E14 FAST Future convened MIT creative arts faculty, alumni and students from throughout the Institute to celebrate the Institute’s one-of-a-kind culture of invention and creativity. This unique environment … Continued
Systems, Process, Art and the Social Friday, February 4, 2011 / 1:00 – 5:00 pm Edgerton Hall – Room 34-101 Systems, Process, Art and the Social forum examined the long shadow of cybernetics and systems theory in art and design from the 1950s … Continued
Celebrating 50 Years of Music and Technology at MIT February 5, 2011 / 9:00am – 10:00pm MIT Media Lab E14 A full day and evening at MIT’s new Media Lab Complex celebrated the Institute’s unique tradition and future plans at the convergence of music, … Continued
Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom Opening Reception and Panel Discussion Thursday, February 3, 2011 MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge (Building E15) Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom is the first museum survey of the work of media art pioneer Stan … Continued
Fred Lerdahl | The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music March 5, 2011, 4:30–5:30 pm MIT Kresge Little Theater Fred Lerdahl, composer, theorist and Columbia University professor, led a discussion about the evolution of speech from song and played a … Continued
Peter Child | Musical Patois: Reflections of Language in Music March 5, 2011, 2:00-4:00 pm MIT Kresge Little Theater A composer, a neurobiologist, a pianist and a computer scientist walk into a lecture hall… You’ll find out what happens next in real … Continued
Pawan Sinha | Insights from New Sight March 5, 2011, 11:00 am-1:00 pm MIT Kresge Little Theater MIT Professor Pawan Sinha’s groundbreaking work on how the brain extracts meaning from sights and sounds has enabled him and his team both to … Continued