Spider’s Canvas at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France on November 23, 2018. Photo by Aurelie Cenno.
Spider's Canvas at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France on November 23, 2018. Photo by Aurelie Cenno.
The Enemy multiuser presentation, May 2016.
Photo credit: Katherine Higgins.
EAPS faculty member Glenn R. Flierl demonstrates the Aerocene Float Predictor software with CAST Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno, MIT Memorial Lobby, April 2018. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.
As part of MIT Sounding, Haitian rapper, poet and singer BIC performs his work in collaboration with Jean Appolon Expressions, a Cambridge-based Haitian contemporary dance company. Photo by Caroline Alden.
BIC in concert at MIT. Credit: Caroline Alden.
Space suit testing, Astronaut Training Method No. Xiii, Moon Goose Colony, 2017. Copyright: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bild Kunst.
The Laughing Room interactive installation funded by a CAST Faculty Grant.
Image courtesy of: the artists.
Bill McKenna prepares for Aerocene Test Flights, MIT Killian Court, April 2018. Credit: Sham Sthankiya/MIT.
2017 Hacking Arts, “Signature Hack” with CAST Visiting Artist Agnieszka Kurant. Credit: Blanco Gomez.
2017 Hacking Arts, "Signature Hack" with CAST Visiting Artist Agnieszka Kurant. Credit: Blanco Gomez.
2017 CAST “Being Material,” Symposium. Bettina Stoetzer moderates the “LIVABLE” discussion with Tal Danino, Director, Synthetic Biological Systems Laboratory, Columbia University,
Bill Maurer, Dean, School of Social Sciences and Professor, University of California, Irvine, and Claire Pentecost, Professor, Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2017 CAST "Being Material," Symposium. Bettina Stoetzer moderates the "LIVABLE" discussion with Tal Danino, Director, Synthetic Biological Systems Laboratory, Columbia University, Bill Maurer, Dean, School of Social Sciences and Professor, University of California, Irvine, and Claire Pentecost, Professor, Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Met x Microsoft x MIT. Credit: Victor Castro
MIT has long been a place where a productive interplay of art, science, and technology drives innovation and creativity. The word “arts” was etched in stone more than 100 years ago inside the dome in the Lobby 7 entrance. Visiting artists have been welcomed since the 1970s. The “Infinite Corridor” in the center of campus joins together engineering labs, architectural studios, and music practice rooms.
The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) was established in 2012 to create new opportunities for art, science, and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge, and discovery. The projects it supports and presents take many forms, including boundary-crossing research by faculty, collaborative work with visiting artists, cross-disciplinary classes, performances, installations, symposia, and publications. A joint initiative of the Office of the Provost, the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) and the School of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS), the Center is funded in part by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
MIT sees making as an essential form of thinking. The arts introduce new ideas and material things into this vision—in provocative, illuminating, and beautiful ways. CAST’s mission adds an essential dimension to MIT’s motto—Mens et Manus—mind and hand, or learning by doing.
Whether you’re an artist, engineer, scientist, humanities scholar, prospective student, or art lover, CAST invites you to explore MIT’s creative culture of experimentation, risk-taking, and imaginative problem solving.
Leila W. Kinney
Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and MIT CAST
