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Student showing a pink iridescent piece in the Introduction to Physical Computing for Artists class.
Student in Introduction to Physical Computing for Artists. Credit Sarah Bastille.

Learning to Compute Through Art

One student confesses that motors have always freaked them out. Amy Huynh, a first-year student in the Technology and Policy Program says “I just didn’t respond to the way electrical engineering and coding is usually taught.” Huynh and her fellow … Continued

Iva Bittová with MIT students in Rhinebeck, NY, courtesy Laura Grill Jaye.

MIT Students Find Their Voice

With her one-of-a-kind musical style, Distinguished Visiting Artist Iva Bittová helps students make music that is authentically their own   On a weekend in September, a group of students from MIT’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble visited CAST Distinguished Visiting Artist Iva … Continued

Students stand in a bright warehouse around a pink foam sculpture of a mountain.
The Deep Time Project, credit Audrey Chen.

Taking the Long View: The Deep Time Project

Architecture students address the urgent need to reframe the relationship between design and time How would we design and build differently if we learned to live at multiple time scales? How would human communities respond to global challenges if the … Continued

Reconfiguración, Wiesner Student Art Gallery. Credit Alejandro Medina

Reconfiguración

An exhibition at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery invites visitors to contemplate the intelligence embedded in living systems   “When we attune ourselves to the multiple intelligences of nature, we recognize that the technology is already there. It’s just about … Continued

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Emma Yimeng Zhu 朱艺蒙 (SMACT ’21) Brings Ideas to Life

Artist and architect Emma Yimeng Zhu 朱艺蒙 is challenging us to reimagine our world.   Emma Yimeng Zhu 朱艺蒙 (SMACT ’21) is fascinated by lines. By the boundaries they form, by the blurring of them, and by how we might … Continued

A gallery room with two low pedistals , one with a robotic arm and the other with ceramic bricks.
Screenshot of Misalignments online exhibition. Credit: Dalma Földesi and Jung In Seo.

Misalignments

When MArch’20 graduates Dalma Földesi and Jung In Seo first started taking ceramics classes at MIT’s Student Art Association (SAA), they found a fascinatingly protean substance. Clay could be liquid or solid, heavy and dense or feather-light. Before it hardens, … Continued

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