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DISTACT
: is a hybrid space for news updates, announcements, archival picks, and insights related to our own work and that of our wider community.![Stills, 2009. Film still](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/RGreen_Stills_2009-1172x781.jpg)
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Gearóid Dolan’s Protest ReEmbodied Featured in Emergency Index Vol. 10+
March 4, 2024
![Catastrophe Time, 2023. Image courtesy of Gary Zhexi Zhang.](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/C8CD7B5D-D4D9-4654-B03D-71C4999D57E2-878x878.jpg)
Gary Zhexi Zhang: Catastrophe Time! Book launch and conversation
February 16, 2024
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Kevin McLellan’s Sky. Pond, Mouth. Wins the Granite State Poetry Prize, and Other News
February 8, 2024
![Renée Green. Road ____: Part I, 1994. Installation detail, Juf, Madrid, 2023. Image: Alejandro Cayetano](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/04_RGreen_Camino_Part_1_Juf_Cayetano-627x878.jpg)
Madrid Returns: Camino Road at Juf
December 12, 2023
![Image courtesy of Christopher Joshua Benton.](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_5593-1152x878.jpg)
Christopher Joshua Benton Awarded Obermayer Prize for Academic Writing
May 30, 2023
![“official photograph of a member of congress holding a cat, photorealistic” / “official photograph of a member of congress holding a gun, photorealistic.” Courtesy of Ryan Aasen.](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/aasen_ai_act1-1170x878.jpg)
Ryan Aasen on Racial Stereotypes in AI Image Generation
May 15, 2023
![Christopher Joshua Benton, The Author Cooks a Bean Pie, 2022. Courtesy of Christopher Joshua Benton.](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Author-Cooks-a-Bean-Pie_by-Christopher-Joshua-Benton-1-733x878.jpg)
Christopher Joshua Benton in 2023 MIT Thresholds Architectural Journal
May 2, 2023
![Design and Solidarity Book Launch Poster](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Design-and-Solidarity-Book-Launch-1172x659.png)
Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal | Design & Solidarity Book Launch on April 20
April 18, 2023
![Notes on Formation – Ammar Khammash book. Photograph by Laetitia El Hakim.](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cover-1172x781.jpg)
Notes on Formation: Ammar Khammash
April 13, 2023
![Marcel Broodthaers. Bateau-Tableau, 1973. moCa Cleveland, 2022. Installation view. Image: ©FieldStudio](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/08_RGreen_Contact_moCa_Front2022_FieldStudioPhotography-1172x837.jpg)
Contact Conversations in Cleveland
November 10, 2022
![Mise-en-Scène, 1991. Migros Museum für Gegentwartskunst, 2022. Image: Flavio Karrer](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/16_RGreen_ID_Migros_Flavio_Karrer-1172x878.jpeg)