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Image: Guillermo Bernal. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Guillermo Bernal. Courtesy of the artist.

2019 Winners of the Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

Guillermo Bernal, Erin Genia, Emily Toomey, and Dipo Doherty Every artist’s body of work represents their creative vision and artistic evolution. For younger artists, a portfolio also points to their future potential. Winners of the 2019 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer … Continued

Ani Liu, "Mind Controlled Spermatozoa"
Ani Liu, "Mind Controlled Spermatozoa"

2017 Winners of the Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

The Schnitzer Prize was established in 1996 through an endowment from Harold and Arlene Schnitzer of Portland, Oregon. Harold Schnitzer, a real estate investor, graduated from MIT in 1944 with a degree in metallurgy. The prizes—a first prize of $5000, … Continued

WEARABLE Panelist Hussein Chalayan’s Autumn/Winter Collection, 2007.
WEARABLE Panelist Hussein Chalayan’s Autumn/Winter Collection, 2007.

Leila Kinney Discusses “Being Material”

MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte predicted in 1995 that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world. Two decades later, our everyday lives are indeed ever more suffused by computation and calculation. But unwieldy … Continued

Two dancers wearing specialized costumes with open vents in the back.
bioLogic Second Skin, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab. Photo: © 2012 Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab.

bioLogic’s Living Textile

Bio is the New Interface Textile production historically has been a bellwether for innovations in manufacturing—from such technological improvements as the spinning jenny and the flying shuttle at the dawn of the industrial revolution to recent developments in electronic and … Continued

Wunderkammer, ACT class, student project 1, 2015. Photo: Azra Akšamija.

Spring 2015 Critique Week: Wunderkammer

ACT Professor Azra Akšamija framed her Spring 2015 section of Foundations in Art, Design, and Spatial Practices (4.302), around the idea of Wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosities. These wonder-rooms gained popularity in Europe in the sixteenth century and typically comprised encyclopedic … Continued

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