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Material Formations critique, Skylar Tibbits Design Studio, 2015. Photo: Sharon Lacey.

Material Formations (and Deformations)

Forget the balsa wood and foam core of yesterday’s design classes. Students in Skylar Tibbits’s innovative studio course are using everything from gummy bears to glass to rubber to foam, to create three-dimensional representations of the generative drawings they produced … Continued

Students reach for one of several earbuds and ipods suspended above.

Student installation for “The Harmonic Archive,” 2014.

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) receives $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Combined grants provide 8 years of funding, among largest gifts received by the arts at MIT Cambridge, MA, April 22, 2015–The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) has received $1,500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in support … 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

Bruno Latour delivers keynote address at CAST symposium, 2014. Photo: Barry Hetherington.

Seeing/ Sounding/ Sensing: CAST’s first symposium investigates the senses and what it means to be aesthetic

In his keynote address for CAST’s first symposium, Seeing/ Sounding/ Sensing, Bruno Latour (Professor at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris) observed that “Much of our philosophy comes from the still life; it’s a disease of the Dutch. Descartes and … Continued

Hand-written text and a diagram of a human head from a historic document.

Seeing/ Sounding/ Sensing: CAST Symposium in Context

On September 26-27, CAST is convening artists, neuroscientists and scholars in the visual arts, music, physics, mathematics, history, anthropology and philosophy to participate in the symposium “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing.” Organized by MIT Professors Caroline A. Jones (Chair) and … Continued

Eight images of brain scans with varying levels of blue, red, green, and yellow.

Q&A: Caroline Jones on Cognitive Neuroscience and the Arts

Caroline A. Jones is a Professor of Art History in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. She studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. … Continued

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