http://www.bostonmagazine.com/
Jonny Sun’s New Art Project Is a Sitcom, Starring You
The Twitter celebrity’s Laughing Room features a laugh track powered by artificial intelligence.
November 9, 2018
News, interviews, and stories about the arts at MIT
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Leah Talatinian
Senior Officer for Marketing and Communications
https://www.bostonglobe.com
First, he wrote a book with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Next, an art exhibit in Cambridge that will tell you if you’re funny
Between moonlighting as a Twitter comedian, collaborating with “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on a new book, and making appearances on late-night television, Jonny Sun somehow found time to create an interactive art installation that’s debuting in Cambridge this month.
November 9, 2018
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/
Bowie, Joni and Leonard: Breathing life into the poetic trinity
What becomes a legend most?
November 1, 2018
Artspace.com
Smelling A.I.: Anicka Yi On the Future of Olfaction, Death, and How Science Can Benefit From Working With Artists
Describing any of Anicka Yi’s unorthodox works as being “multimedia” would be an accurate, though a severely understated characterization.
October 27, 2018
http://www.nytimes.com/
With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off
“Oh, no! They swept her away!” exclaimed Tomás Saraceno, his eyes wide as he looked through a doorway at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
October 19, 2018
https://www.lanacion.com.ar/
Tomás Saraceno llega al Palais de Tokyo con una “jam session cósmica”
“La idea es actuar juntos en un sistema en devenir, siempre contingente y en permanente evolución, siguiendo various ritmos y trayectorias, para obtener un conjunto del universo”, explicó ayer en la vista guiada para la prensa internacional, junto con la … Continued
October16, 2018
http://archinect.com
The Venice Biennale Swamp Pavilion, Part I: Swamp Radio
Though Venice has been the home of the eponymous Biennale since 1895 and the site of Western trade since roughly 400 AD, its longer history as a swamp is often overlooked.
August 15, 2018
Post-Performance Future
Agnieszka Kurant, Assembly Line, 2017, which was created during her CAST residency at MIT was featured in an article about artists creating work in the theme of “post-performance future.”
July 5, 2018
https://art19.com/shows/state-of-the-art/episodes/85b249b1-a0fb-43f7-8469-82debf068f1d
The Art of MIT: Leila Kinney & Evan Ziporyn of MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST)
Everyone is familiar with MIT and the university’s reputation as a serious force in the world of science, tech, and research, but how many are aware of MIT’s legacy in the arts?
June 14, 2018
Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas, Liquid Archive, 2011. Photo: Andy Ryan.
Integrating the arts and humanities at MIT, then and now
“In our increasingly complex society, science and technology can no longer be segregated from their human and social consequences. The most difficult and complicated problems confronting our generation are in the field of the humanities and social sciences.” This declaration, … Continued
Manufacturing Michief: Pedro Reyes with Torry Bend
I first came across Pedro Reyes’s work while researching performance and social activism.
June 5, 2018
http://www.npr.org
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Infuses Bach’s ‘Sonatas & Partitas’ With Joy
Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces.
May 29, 2018
https://www.culturedmag.com/
MIT’S LEILA KINNEY BRINGS SCIENCE AND ART TOGETHER
As prestigious universities go, MIT is the rare institution that refuses to be limited by tradition.
May 18, 2018
https://www.bostonglobe.com
New ‘Manufacturing Mischief’ features Chomsky, Rand, and Tiny Trump
It’s Noam Chomsky vs. Ayn Rand in a new show from multimedia artist Pedro Reyes — and just to be clear, it’s a comedy, and they’re puppets.
April 24, 2018
https://forward.com/
Want To See Chomsky, Rand, Marx And Musk Argue About Technology? Now You Can — In A Puppet Show
If you have ever sat in a critical theory lecture and wished that your professor would be replaced by a group of dapper, miniaturized historical figures who sometimes rap, there’s now a puppet show to satiate that desire.
April 17, 2018
http://www.nytimes.com/
Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show
“Manufacturing Mischief,” which will have its premiere run on April 26 and 27 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts a mini-Chomsky onstage alongside Elon Musk, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx.
April 16, 2018
https://www.bostonglobe.com
At MIT, Mouse on Mars immerses listeners in ‘surround sound on steroids’
Whether through his work as one half of German electronic music duo Mouse on Mars or through his 2016-17 tenure as an MIT guest lecturer, Jan St. Werner has spent the better part of the past 25 years exploring the … Continued
March 22, 2018
http://www.nytimes.com/
Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party
Mouse on Mars, the brainy, playful, long-running, relentlessly inventive electronic-music duo from Berlin, had a different kind of rollout for its new album, “Dimensional People.”
March 12, 2018
http://www.classical-scene.com
Tribute d’Amore
Last Saturday at Kresge Auditorium the annual Terry and Rick Stone Concert of the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) and the MIT Music and Theater Arts celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Boston recital debut of Marcus Thompson, … Continued
March 1, 2018
http://baystatebanner.com/
Violist’s career forever linked to MLK
One of only a few African Americans to find success in classical music, violist Marcus Thompson has garnered critical acclaim since the start of his illustrious career.
March 1, 2018
https://slippedisc.com/
BOSTON SYMPHONY TRIALS A REAL-TIME APP FOR LIVE CONCERTS
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will offer ConcertCue, an innovative real-time program note app during the orchestra’s “Casual Fridays” program on Friday, February 9.
January 25, 2018
https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Virtual Enemy at the MIT Museum
Once I put on the goggles and strapped the eight-pound backpack around my waist, the museum and its staff disappeared.
January 8, 2018
https://www.lensculture.com/
Confront “The Enemy” in this Virtual Reality Exhibition
A virtual experience at MIT explores urgent questions about the nature of war photography, photojournalism, and the purpose of photographs taken during a conflict.
December 13, 2017
http://www.technologyreview.com/
This VR Exhibit Lets You Connect with the Human Side of War
A pioneering photojournalist hopes VR can restore war photography’s dramatic power to influence and inform us.
December 6, 2017
http://www.richmond.com/
‘Mosque Manifesto’ by Azra Akšamija showing at The Anderson
“Mosque Manifesto” by artist Azra Akšamija is showing at The Anderson, the exhibition and program space for VCUarts, the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.
December 5, 2017