EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Leah Talatinian
Senior Officer for Marketing and Communications
Virtual Reality isn’t a mere fad which will come and go – it is technology that will soon turn empirical experience on its head.
Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical was presented to Bat Out of Hell.
Peek into the MIT Museum on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, and you may glimpse a slightly odd scene: a group of people huddled together, wearing sci-fi-looking headsets.
As the fall semester draws to a close and — while avoiding studying for finals — you consider redecorating your sparse dorm room, try to think bigger than the usual arrangement of postcards, posters, and Polaroids.
As a photojournalist, Karim Ben Khelifa has been on the frontlines of wars and international conflicts — including in Iraq and Afghanistan — observing and documenting them through his camera lens.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has commissioned new public artworks by Olafur Eliasson and Nick Mauss, due to be unveiled in fall 2018.
Slip the straps of the eight-pound backpack over your shoulders, buckle it around your waist, and try not to tense up as an attendant tightens your virtual-reality headset.
Pianist Sarah Cahill offers a belated 80th birthday celebration for the composer that challenges conceptions about Minimalism.
Can an immersive virtual-reality project engender empathy and end violence?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts to Audra McDonald.
Audra McDonald, the winner of a record six Tony Awards, has been chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald is the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just announced that Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald is the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.
Much of what we hear about public space comes via routine transactional politics, when officials tell us whether or not we can afford, say, parks, schools, and libraries.
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman of Brooklyn Rider and Silkroad Ensemble; new-music piano luminary Sarah Cahill; and Evan Ziporyn, virtuoso clarinetist and faculty director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.
“One of the most profound museum experiences of my life.”–WGBH Radio
At the MIT Museum, a new virtual reality exhibition conceived by photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa takes participants face-to-face with opposing combatants in international conflict zones.
Trevor Paglen, 43, artist and geographer living in Berlin: “Documenting the hidden operations of covert government projects and examining the ways that human rights are threatened in an era of mass surveillance.”
Visitors to war photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa’s project experience the humanity in people on both sides of conflicts.
“Most of us will never know what it feels like inside a war zone. The new exhibit at the MIT Museum is offering an emersion experience like few others.” (Segment begins at 18:40)
Walking by the MIT Museum is intriguing this fall — a quick peek through its Mass Ave windows shows patrons decked out in heavy goggles and backpacks meandering through a mostly empty space.
Walking by the MIT Museum is intriguing this fall — a quick peek through its Mass Ave windows shows patrons decked out in heavy goggles and backpacks meandering through a mostly empty space.
While a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers program in 2015, Shaun O’Boyle photographed a grounded iceberg in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
The project “Enemy” is born of “frustration”, is a war correspondent Karim Ben Khelifa. “The frustration of not being to the height of the journalism I wanted to do, that I had idealized.”
