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Lydia Yan’s poster project highlights the e-waste crisis in Guangzhou, China, urging reflection with the question: “What do we feed our children?”
Image: Adelaide Zollinger

Transversal Design for Social Impact

February 20, 2025
AcademicsResearch

Renée Green, Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 295

January 23, 2025
AcademicsExhibition

Renée Green. Partially Buried, 1996. Chibachrome

Renée Green’s Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

September 15, 2024
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Laura Anderson Barbata, Ocean Calling, 2017. Created in collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies, Chris Walker and Jarana Beat, Ocean Calling is a response to the effects of global warming on all forms of life that make the ocean their home. Presented at the United Nations at the first Ocean Conference in 2017. Procession, performance, dance, music, textile arts, costuming, ritual, and protest. Photo: Frank Veronsky.

New Faculty Profile: Laura Anderson Barbata

April 4, 2024
Academics

“Creating Art, Thinking Science,” credit HErickson/MIT

Creative Collisions: Crossing the Art-Science Divide

February 23, 2024
AcademicsExhibition

Zhanyi Chen, Artificial Satellite Astrology, 2023. A horoscope of Hurricane Katrina, drew using the positions of meteorological satellites instead of planets. Courtesy of the artist.

Zhanyi Chen’s Artificial Satellite Astrology

August 22, 2023
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Renée Green. Space Poem 8.1 (Vide ma tête), 2022-2023, Barnard Library, New York. Installation view. Image: Guang Xu

Renée Green Awarded 2023 Orzeck Fellowship at Barnard College, New York

April 25, 2023
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Faruk Šabanović, option5. Installation view.

Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Faruk Šabanović

June 14, 2022
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Kwan Q Li, Non-Arrival, Yet, In Proximity. Installation view.

Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Kwan Queenie Li

June 13, 2022
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Weihan Jiang, I Am Anxiously Waiting. Video still.

Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Weihan Jiang

June 10, 2022
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Alejandro Medina, Cloud Forest (Ways of Seeing), video still

Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Alejandro Medina

June 1, 2022
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Reina Suyeon Mun, SilenceTop, 2022.

Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Reina Suyeon Mun

May 25, 2022
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