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MIT Grieves with America: Resources

June 5, 2020
Announcement

Rae Yuping Hsu, OOloI spacesuit, 2020. Slime mold, bacterial cellulose, scuba fabric, and bioplastic. Suit 23 x 52 x 5in; Inflatable 4 x 2.5ft.

Rae Yuping Hsu (SMACT ’20) Wins Second Place Schnitzer Prize

May 29, 2020
Announcement

Jessica Sarah Rinland, Ý Berá – Aguas de Luz (Bright Waters), 2016. Film still.

Jessica Sarah Rinland (SMACT ’18) to Host Virtual Workshop at Union Docs in NYC

May 27, 2020
Event

Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Karaoke, 2001. Video still.

Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas’s Karaoke

May 25, 2020
Exhibition

Jessica Sarah Rinland, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, 2019. Film still.

Jessica Sarah Rinland (SMACT ’18) Film Screenings May 22-24 at Anthology Film Archives

May 21, 2020
Event

Ryan Aasen, Letter from MIT President Richard Maclaurin to George Eastman, 1919. Laser print, 11″ x 8.5″.

Class of 2020 | Ryan Aasen

May 18, 2020
Press

(Re)placing Chernobyl

(Re)Placing Chernobyl | Webinar on Thursday, May 14, 2020

May 13, 2020
Event

Primer’s ‘itinerant platform’ on the premises of biotech company Aquaporin, located outside Copenhagen

The Future of Artistic Research by Gary Zhexi Zhang (SMACT ’19)

May 11, 2020
PressPublication

Violist Marcus Thompson and software developer Barry Vercoe, both MIT professors, collaborate on “Synapse for Viola and Computer,” included in the Computer Generations (Composers Recordings Inc., 1978) album, 1976.

OK Computer | ACT Receives Grant to Preserve MIT Experimental Music Studio Recordings

May 8, 2020
AnnouncementResearch

Judith Barry, Space Invaders

Judith Barry’s Space Invaders: An early example of computer-aided artwork

April 29, 2020
Press

Pro-test lab Archive posters. Design: NODE Berlin Oslo, 2010.

Urbonas Studio’s Pro-test Lab Archive at The Missing Planet Exhibition

April 24, 2020
Exhibition

Nancy Dayanne Valladares, Botanical Ghosts.

Class of 2020 | Nancy Dayanne Valladares

April 21, 2020
Press

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