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Nell Breyer’s installation “Where Lines Converge,” on view in Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, asks what it means for bodies to convene and perceive themselves as a collective. The artist Nell Breyer ‘02 has long been fascinated by the relationship between … Continued
The work of Sung Tieu necessitates a fair amount of explanatory text. Reading the growing body of writing about Tieu (the artist will open her first US solo exhibitions—“Infra-Specter” at Brooklyn’s Amant on March 30, “Civic Floor” at Cambridge’s MIT … Continued
One of the beauties of art—of all creative endeavors—is that it cannot fully be quantified. Statues and films and stories all have value. But apart from a few high-flying market makers, it’s hard to assess their actual worth. The difficulty … Continued
A new startup born out of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning has developed a green roof concept aimed at improving the quality of life of Parisians while addressing a host of environmental and urban health concerns for the ancient city of 2.1 million.
Chicago native and founder of the Society of Spoken Art Lupe Fiasco announced on Thursday that he’s a Yale University’s Saybrook Fellow.
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) in collaboration with Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab have selected four screen-based Indigenous artists from different regions in Canada for the new Immersive Incubator taking place at the MIT campus from April … Continued
Last May, Lupe announced that he would be teaching at MIT as part of the college’s MLK Visiting Professor Program for the 2022-23 academic year. He was previously a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology from … Continued
Visiting musician Clarice Assad applies her inclusive approach to a new project about the Amazon The accomplishments of Brazilian-American composer, vocalist, and pianist Clarice Assad are many. She has won accolades, earned prestigious residencies, and her work is performed … Continued
Mais de 75 músicos e pesquisadores do MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), prestigiada universidade norte-americana e considerada a melhor do mundo há mais de 10 anos, participam de intercâmbio cultural e científico sobre música, tecnologia e ritmos da Amazônia, em … Continued
Artistas brasileiros e indígenas, além de compositoras indicadas ao Grammy, vão se unir a 75 músicos e pesquisadores do MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), considerada a melhor universidade do mundo por alguns rankings há mais de 10 anos, para apresentar … Continued
A portrait concert of composer Derek David will feature new vocal and chamber works that reflect upon Jewish identity and Yiddish culture in a contemporary landscape.
Pink chickens changing the earth? How about a distortion in spacetime that you can actually see? Strange questions – and the MIT Museum in Cambridge has a few answers. Visitors can see the best of MIT, plus new technologies, at the … Continued
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
CNN visits Christopher Joshua Benton at Abu Dhabi Art.
The artist is drawn not just to spirituality, but to religions that are assembled from many different practices, mirroring in a way her own assembling of works from different items. For example, the Santeria religion fuses Yoruba beliefs with Roman … Continued
Inside the depths of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center on MIT’s campus, artist and architecture student Karyn Nakamura has MacGyvered an abandoned pub into an immersive space to host her performance Break My Body, Liberate My Soul.
An underappreciated gem of the Greater Boston art scene, make sure to add the MIT List Visual Arts Center to your list.
The racial paradigm in the United States means that Black architects must continue to operate against the grain in order to get projects built, says From the Ground Up exhibition curator Hasaan Kirkland.
The company literally wants to see you sweat. By measuring electrodermal activity, they hope to understand the role of audio in users’ lives.
Artist Alison Nguyen’s first institutional solo exhibition opens this weekend at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where she’s premiering “history as hypnosis.”
When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again.
The term “bio art” is often linked to works from the late 1990s and early 2000s that involved the manipulation of genetic code. One might recall Eduardo Kac’s fluorescent bunny or the ear implanted in Stelarc’s arm. The curators of … Continued
At Universal Studios Japan, one of the world’s most popular theme parks, a single parade can run 45 minutes and involve more than 100 performers, a half-dozen floats, intricate choreography, and a huge all-out water fight with the audience. It’s … Continued
When the MIT Museum opened its new 56,000-square-foot space in Kendall Square last October, it was a time of public celebration. Today, it has reimagined the online experience for visitors, who can now browse through more than 156,000 items from … Continued
For composers like Tod Machover, the future of AI and music depends on collaboration with human creativity.
