EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Leah Talatinian
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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
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
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
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
“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
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
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.
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
