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ACT Featured in MIT News’ Summer 2021 Reading List

July 14, 2021
Publication

Azra Akšamija, View 2: Palimpsest. Walking through the installation, the viewer is surrounded by an array of vertical and horizontal text strips, inviting cross-reading of selected names and quotes.

Azra Aksamija | To Build, or Not to Build … A Monument: Why I Withdrew my Winning Proposal to Cambridge Suffrage

July 12, 2021
PressPublication

Christopher Benton, The Opportunity Pavilion, 2021. Detail view. Photo: Naoki Takehisa.

Christopher Joshua Benton (SMACT ’23) in East-East Vol. 4: The Curio Shop

July 7, 2021
Exhibition

Erin Genia (SMACT ’19) in Sound on Mystic Installation

July 6, 2021
Exhibition

Renée Green, Pacing (Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University; Free Agent Media, 2020)

Reneé Green Book Launch at Bortolami Gallery

July 2, 2021
Event

Imagining an alternative America from a Native perspective

July 1, 2021
Event

Kwan Queenie Li, Jerusalem, 2019.

Kwan Queenie Li (SMACT ’22) Awarded 1st place Enterprise Poets Prize for Imagining a Future

June 30, 2021
Press

A Fictional Landscape of Togetherness, Virtual Interactive Platform, Summer 2020. Image credit: Emma Yimeng Zhu.

A Fictional Landscape of Togetherness

June 28, 2021
Academics

Gary Zhexi Zhang, Poyers! (2021), still from computer generated video

Gary Zhexi Zhang (SMACT ’19) in Conversation with Bahar Noorizadeh

June 25, 2021
Event

Renée Green, Excerpts A.1, Installation view, The Upstairs, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, 2021

Renée Green | Excerpts A.1 at Bortolami Gallery

June 23, 2021
Exhibition

Christopher Janney, Passing Light, San Antonio Airport, San Antonio, TX, 1998.

CAVS Fellow and alumnus Christopher Janney’s “Passing Light” in Performance at San Antonio International Airport

June 22, 2021
Event

Anatomy of a Revolution. Still from the 3’23 video. © Lara Baladi, 2020

Lara Baladi in The Protest and The Recuperation

June 17, 2021
Exhibition

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