Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.
CAST Faculty Projects Articles
Ancestral Memory, credit Doug Segars
Ancestral Storytelling: Movement and Memory
This article was originally published by the MIT Media Lab. Ancestral Storytelling: Movement + Memory embodies motion capture techniques for an interactive and immersive movement and sonic healing performance, living video archive, and workshop utilizing traditional ancestral storytelling and folkloric … Continued
The Eternal Swamp, credit Sarnath Banerjee
Illustrating India’s Complex Environmental Crises
A CAST Visiting Artist project traces the history of cause and effect that have led India to its current crossroads. Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, and CAST Visiting Artist Sarnath Banerjee (no relation) share a similar … Continued
Kristin Young (Sophia) in VALIS. Credit: Maria Baranova.
Reimagining the Opera of the Future
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation In the mid-eighties, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel VALIS in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called … Continued
Testbeds at MoMA. Credit Michael Vahrenwald / Esto.
Transforming a Wasted Resource for Public Good
Jaffer Kolb and his collaborators are working to turn architectural waste into shared community infrastructure When Jaffer Kolb, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at MIT, refers to himself and his collaborators as “garbage people,” he’s talking about the … Continued
Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Floatlab, 2022. Courtesy of höweler + yoon.
FloatLab
A platform for engagement with the environment
Ken Urban, The Immortals Workshop, 2019. Credit: Melissa Blackall.
The Immortals
Tapping theater’s ability to transform
The Hammer and the Feather is an immersive audio and visual installation, developed at MIT by technical instructor Christian Frederickson and visual artist and filmmaker Greg King. Bridging humanistic and scientific inquiry, the piece uses gravity as a poetic and conceptual departure point for musical, visual, and sonic material.
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The Hammer and the Feather
Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity
Jenna Sutela and Markus Buehler, film still from Wet-on-Wet, 2021.
Wet-on-Wet
A new art-science collaboration uses molecular structures as creative medium
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu's Twelve Faces of Armenian Feminism, 1860s to 1960s.
Twelve Faces of Armenian Feminism
A project of recovery and reclamation focused on 12 unsung change-makers
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. The Swamp Observatory AR App. Powered by Hoverlay (2022). Photo by Jonas Žukauskas.
The Swamp School and The Swamp Observatory
A project of imagination and non-material architecture
Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.
The Silence
Dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down
Rania Ghosn/DESIGN EARTH, The Planet After Geoengineering, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
The Planet After Geoengineering
Speculative futures for planet Earth
Jay Scheib, In the Jungle of Cities, 2019. Credit Juliet Dombrowski.
In the Jungle of Cities
A works/process presentation inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s genre-smashing play
Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan perform The Day at Jacobs Pillow. Credit: Hayim Heron. Courtesy of Jacobs Pillow.
The Day
Artists collaborate on a sensory exploration of life and the eternal
The Lorelei Ensemble performs Elena Ruehr's Songs from Extrasolar Spaces. Credit: Danny Goldfield.
Songs from Extrasolar Spaces
Translating the cosmos into music
Tectonics of Wisdom. Courtesy of Cristina Parreño Alonso.
Tectonics of Wisdom
Expanding architecture’s temporal sensibilities through the material ancient wisdom of the library
Ian Condry at the MIT Computing Exposition, 2019. Credit HErickson/MIT.
Sound, Learning & Democracy
New musical and sonic works created specifically for a 360-degree environment
Water Wars: Episode 2, The Eternal Swamp. Illustration by Sarnath Banerjee
Water Wars
Demystifying social science through creative storytelling
Amanda Crider and Lacey Dorn preforming in Persona workshop at MIT. Credit: L. Barry Hetherington.
Persona
Visceral operatic adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film
Prathima Muniyappa (with camera) and other class members examine a student demo. Credit: Graham Jones.