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Matthew Ritchie with collaborators on The Long Count / The Long Game (clockwise from top left: Evan Ziporyn, Aaron Desner, Shara Worden, Bryce Dessner, Kelley Deal, Matthew Ritchie), ICA, Boston, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the ICA.

Creation myths and the creative process: Matthew Ritchie at MIT

“The project started with a general interest in creation myths”; that is how artist Matthew Ritchie describes the genesis of his multimedia performance piece, The Long Count/ The Long Game. He further explains his approach to such grand narratives began … Continued

Excerpt from “Event Horizon: Olafur Eliasson’s Raumexperimente,” by Caroline A. Jones

MIT Professor of Art History Caroline Jones’ article, “Event Horizon: Olafur Eliasson’s Raumexperimente,” appears in Olafur Eliasson: Contact, the catalogue for Eliasson’s recent exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, which was on view until February 23, 2015. Below … Continued

Pawel Romanczuk, Small Instruments IAP, 2015. Photo: L. Barry Hetherington.

Samoróbka Sound: Small Instruments Workshop & Concert

It is hard to have a bad time when you are playing a drinking straw as a flute. At the concluding concert for his IAP class, “Small Instruments: Musical Instrument Building & Performance,” Pawel Romanczuk gave the audience their very … Continued

Joan Jonas (left) and Anna Kohler (right), Infinite Record Symposium, 2014. Photo: Jake Gunter.

Infinite Record: MTA symposium investigates memory & the archive

Mnemosyne, “memory,” is the mother of all the Muses. “Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance,” an international conference devoted to the continuous and living archive, organized by Anna Kohler and Jay Scheib (Music & Theater Arts, MIT), celebrated memory’s role as … Continued

A collection of innovative musical instruments made of glasses, bottles, metal tubs, wood, and other materials.

For your edification and enjoyment: A Guide to Arts IAPs 2015

Once again, it is time to sign up for The Independent Activities Period (IAP), a special term at MIT that runs from early January until the end of the month. IAP 2015 will run from Monday, January 5, through Friday, … Continued

A window display showing hanging chains of sun-shaped lights reads "Little Sun: calculated simplicity"

Little Sun installation in the windows of the MIT Museum, 2012. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.

Little Sun redux with Velux at MIT

Artist Olafur Eliasson, the 2014 McDermott Award Winner, has found MIT an eminently suitable place for collaboration on his Little Sun project. Described as “a work of art that works in life,” Little Sun is a high-quality, portable, solar powered … Continued

A participant in the Umbrella Project stands under an umbrella among a crowd of multicolored umbrellas lit from within by LEDs..

The Umbrella Project, MIT Briggs Field, 2013.

Pilobolus Dance Company Collaborates with MIT Robotics

UP: The Umbrella Project was a collaboration between the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and internationally acclaimed dance company Pilobolus, bringing together more than 250 members of the MIT community to participate in a large-scale live performance … Continued

Tomás Saraceno stands within a large artwork made of black cables and clear orbs.

Tomás Saraceno, Biosphere MW32/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City, 2007. Courtesy: Tomás Saraceno. Credit: Rokma.

All That is Solid Melts Into Air: CAST Inaugural Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno

“It’s 99.9 percent air,” says artist Tomás Saraceno of his latest work, “On Space Time Foam.” On Space Time Foam is a multi-layered habitat of diaphanous membranes suspended 24 meters above the ground, its form continuously shaping and shaped by … Continued

A man holds a glass instrument up to a man's ear.

Musician Mark Stewart Builds Glass Orchestra with MIT Students

GlaOn tour with Paul Simon in the late 1990s, musician Mark Stewart bought his first didgeridoo, a hollow wind instrument from Australia known for its sonorous quaver. Once home in New York, Stewart was walking in the Garment District when … Continued

View of MIT dome at night with large illuminated inflatable sculptures in front and many people watching.

Otto Piene, SKY Event, 2011. Photo: Andy Ryan.

MIT establishes Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)

A new Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) is being established at MIT with support from a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Tech Songs is Published

Early in the twentieth century MIT President Henry Pritchett (1900-1907) asked alumnus Frederic Field Bullard, Class of 1887, to compile a book of Tech songs. (Originally located in Boston’s Back Bay, MIT was known informally as “Boston Tech,” or simply … Continued

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