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MLK Visiting Scholar Lupe Fiasco Issues “AUTOBOTO”
MLK Visiting Scholar for 2022-2023 at MIT Lupe Fiasco releases new album.
July 8, 2022
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MIT’s new design hub
Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the Morningside Academy for Design is expected to open in the fall.
June 29, 2022
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Artist Xin Liu Lets Science-Backed Absurdity Take the Wheel
The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible.
June 28, 2022
Making art through computation
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
June 26, 2022
24HTECH: A new board game highlights the colonized experience
Departing from games that glorify European conquest, “Promesa” helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony.
June 10, 2022
USA News Hub: Promesa Board Game
A new board game from Mikael Jakobsson and Rosa Colón Guerra that highlights the colonized experience in Puerto Rico.
June 11, 2022
Art & Market: Irmandy Wickasono
Irmandy Wicaksono, a PhD Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences from Indonesia is featured by Art & Market.
June 10, 2022
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RUEHR ‘Icarus’ and other chamber music
Icarus (2018) is a tone poem inspired by the famous Greek legend of the hero’s ill-fated flight too close to the sun. A multilayered work expressively, it focuses primarily on the euphoria of building the wings and initial flight, but … Continued
June 9, 2022
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Under Amy Brand, MIT Press celebrates 60 years
Since 2015, director and publisher of the MIT Press Amy Brand has presided over one of the largest university presses in the world, which marks its 60th anniversary this month.
June 8, 2022
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Anjunabeats’ Nourey Flights Climate Change by Blending MIT Research and Music
ourey discusses all things sustainability, climate change, and being eco-conscious at your next festival ahead of Above & Beyond’s 2022 Group Therapy Weekender.
July 21, 2022
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A Reinvention of MIT’s Campus
Spaces for learning, living, discovering, and making were created and renewed during the MIT Campaign for a Better World.
June 14, 2022
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Power and prototypes: Matthew Angelo Harrison at MIT List Visual Arts Center
The Detroit-based artist positions organized labor and workers’ rights as entombed relics, victims of post-industrial economy — and leaves little room for discussion.
June 9, 2022
XR filmmaker tackles Caribbean land ownership issues
Creative technologist preps trio of film and virtual reality documentaries on Barbuda.
May 11, 2022
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11 art exhibits to heat up your summer
When the heat is on, some of us go to the beach, others retreat to air-conditioned movie theatres, and a few smart souls seek out the cool quiet of a museum.
June 13, 2022
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Construction to revamp Metropolitan Warehouse commences
Construction activities are scheduled to begin for the redevelopment of the Metropolitan (Met) Warehouse (Building W41) in June.
June 9, 2022
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Written half a century ago, a children’s book on Beethoven finds a publisher
“He had to overcome so many obstacles in his life, and yet that didn’t deter him from doing what he wanted to do,” Michael Gruenbaum said of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
May 25, 2022
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It Must Be Now! is a call for change
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and some special guests came together to perform It Must Be Now! (IMBN!), a two-year endeavor combining music, spoken word, and interpretive dance.
May 26, 2022
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Grammy-winning musician Lupe Fiasco to teach rap at MIT next spring
Rapper and 12-time Grammy nominee Lupe Fiasco has been appointed to the 2022-23 MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program at MIT.
May 25, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco Announces New Teaching Job at MIT
Lupe Fiasco is graduating from Chicago rhyme-slinger to MIT professor, announcing Friday that he’ll be teaching at the prestigious school.
May 23, 2022
Lupe Fiasco is Going to be Teaching a Class at MIT
Lupe Fiasco is trading backpack rap for, well, just backpacks. The Food & Liquor MC has been announced as part of MIT’s MLK Visiting Professor Program for the 2022-23 academic year.
May 21, 2022
A Life Worth Living
Azra Akšamija explores the complex role of culture in war and other crises.
May 24, 2022
Lupe Fiasco To Teach Rap At MIT
Earlier this week, Lupe Fiasco announced via social media that he is going to be teaching rap at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
May 20, 2022
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Volunteer Collective Teams Up to Help Ukrainian Design Professionals
To support the large community of design professionals, many of whom have had their lives uprooted by the conflict, a team of architects based in Boston has formed Hire Ukrainian Designers.
May 17, 2022
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Why Scientists Are Turning Molecules Into Music
Markus Buehler, a materials engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also a musician and composer, believes the crossover between molecules and music goes even further than “music therapy.” He says we could potentially use music to make new … Continued
May 17, 2022
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MIT’s ‘It Must Be Now!’ advances social justice through music and media
Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented an immersive music and multimedia event with themes of racial injustice and healing.
May 12, 2022