Q&A Archives - Arts at MIT

"Surrounded by Digitized Faces" and Bodies is a collection of interactive installations that mirror visitors own images in unexpected ways. Using immersive sound, video recording, and projection, faces and bodies of gallery visitors become part of works which reflect the skepticism and irony of postmodern life. The artists use vivid optimism to urge viewers to look inside and befriend their inner selves. Courtesy of Yangyang Yang.

3 Questions: Three Emerging Student Artists React To Their Wiesner Student Art Gallery Experiences In Fall 2019

Exposures II featuring Adam Jost and SAA artists, Surrounded by Digitized Faces and Bodies featuring Yangyang Yang and recent IDM alumni, and Ohyoon Kwon’s Closing Remarks Each month, the Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Gallery welcomes students, staff, faculty, and … Continued

On Display: April 22 - May 23, 2019 Works by Laura Perovich, graduate student in the MIT Media Lab and Community Collaborators Participatory Self-Portrait is a collaborative exhibit investigating art, environment, and community in our past and present. It includes community-based environmental art from Chelsea, MA, and Cambridge, MA, and explores the intertwined systems that form our collective decisions about how to create our future. You are invited to shape and be shaped by this interactive installation. Photo by Sarah Hirzel Please ask before use

3 Questions: Three Emerging Student Artists React to Their Wiesner Student Art Gallery Experiences

Students show their research at MIT through their gallery exhibitions Each month, the Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Gallery welcomes students, staff, faculty, and visitors to view a new and engaging exhibition of student art work. A gift from MIT’s … Continued

DESIGN EARTH, "Planetarium for the Anthropocene," 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Q&A with Rania Ghosn

Suspend disgust at the thought of trash; make it a compelling subject for designers and the broader public. That’s Rania Ghosn’s tactic for getting more people to improve our built environment and ask the necessary questions about landfills, oil rigs, … Continued

Vision in Neuroscience and Art. Students conduct visual experiments. Credit: Seth Riskin.

Q&A with Seth Riskin

Seth Riskin, SM ’89, came to MIT in 1986 to coach the women’s gymnastics team, before applying to the graduate program in Visual Studies at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), then under the direction of German artist Otto … Continued

Hacking Arts Festival, 2016.

Hacking Arts Festival 2016 Merges Art, Tech and Entrepreneurship

“We’re not just talking about the future of the arts—we’re creating it,” says Helen Smith, MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2017 and co-chair of Hacking Arts 2016. Igniting cross-disciplinary innovation, Hacking Arts brings together artists, engineers and entrepreneurs to take … Continued

Arnold Dreyblatt, student installation for “The Harmonic Archive,” 2014. Photo: L. Barry Hetherington.

Q&A with CAST Visiting Artist Arnold Dreyblatt

Media artist and composer Arnold Dreyblatt’s connection to MIT began in 2000. As both a visual artist and a composer, there have been multiple threads to his involvement at MIT over the years. In his residency this fall he was … 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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