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SUMMARY:February School 2019
DESCRIPTION:Below are the events currently scheduled for February School 2019. Most workshops have limited places. To sign up for a workshop event\, please email info@thefebruary.school. \nIn the month of February\, the MIT Program in Art\, Culture and Technology will set up a temporary school in the Wiesner Gallery\, Student Center (W20).  \nInitiated in 2018\, February School is an experiment in peer-to-peer learning which aims to intervene and critically reflect on the institutional and pedagogical structures of MIT. The School is a subsystem of education where students and the general public are invited to organize and attend classes\, cinema cycles\, exhibitions\, community discussions\, workshops\, and construction projects throughout the month. Operating ‘within and against’ the structures and conventions of the Institute\, February School explores other ways of learning\, sharing\, and building knowledge and community. \nSchedule and Events: \nMoving a Still Painting:\nJessica Sarah Rinland (SMACT ’18)\nFebruary 6th\, 11am-1:30pm\nFebruary 12th\, 4-5:30pm\nTaught by Jessica Sarah Rinland\, this two-day 16mm workshop will cover hands-on Camera-less Filmmaking and instruction of Bolex H16 filming. Participants will learn techniques for both filming and painting\, drawing\, or scratching directly onto film.  \nWith rolls of transparent film for each participant\, we will be exploring multiple filmmaking styles and perspectives to find new ways of making and seeing. At the end of the workshops\, the films will be projected. \n  \nMutual Pictures #5:\nJenna Sutela and Nicole L’Huillier\nBartos Theatre (E15-070)\nFebruary 6th\, 7pm \nScreening and listening session followed by an informal discussion with the artists\, and dinner.  \nJenna Sutela works with words\, sounds\, and other living materials. Her installations and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments\, often in relation to technology. In 2019 she will be an MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology Visiting Artist. \nNicole L’Huillier is a transdisciplinary artist from Santiago\, Chile\, currently pursuing a PhD in the MIT Media Lab\, Opera of the Future group\, working at the intersection of art\, music\, architecture\, science\, and technology.  \n  \nInstruments of Protest: Speaker Tower\nNicolás Kisic Aguirre (SMACT ’18)\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nPt 1: February 12th\, 1-4pm\nPt 2: February 19th\, 1-4pm\nPt 3: February 27th\, 5-7pm \nDuring the month of February\, a series of protests are being held in the Boston area against Raytheon\, a major US weapons contractor and war profiteer with strong ties to MIT. Raytheon seeks talent in local universities\, sponsors different programs\, and has strong partnerships with the Institute. Throughout this workshop\, participants will research the connection between MIT and Raytheon and collaborate on a sound piece to explore new ways of occupying the sonic space to manifest and strengthen a collective voice.   \nParticipants will engage with the Speaker Tower\, a portable and autonomous instrument of protest developed by artist Nicolás Kisic Aguirre\, in a series of workshops culminating in a performance and protest. \n  \nDouglass Davis Darwin Lincoln X\nWith MIT Radius\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 13th\, 7:30pm \nIn this interactive event\, participants will read aloud sections of Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech alongside related texts from the abolitionist\, civil rights\, and black power movements. With Gospel music led by Robbie Pate.  \nRadius is an MIT faculty group that explores ethics at the heart of science and technology at MIT. \n  \nTo Cambridge With Love\, MIT\nLaura Perovich and Lillian Hsu\nWiesner Gallery\, (W20-209)\nFebruary 14th\, 3-5pm \nHow do MIT and Cambridge interact as institutions and as individuals? What kind of power structures inform their relationships? This workshop will investigate the MIT and Cambridge relationship and explore new methods for engagement on local challenges such as justice\, environment\, city planning\, health\, public space\, education\, and more. Community and city representatives will join us to explore first steps to beginning new collaborative projects together. Since the NECCO conversation hearts are gone\, we’ll decorate cookies with messages from MIT to Cambridge and Cambridge to MIT establishing our relationship…and eat these cookies to internalize our new future together!  \nLaura Perovich\, PhD Candidate\, MIT Media Lab. \nLillian Hsu\, Director of Public Art and Exhibitions\, Cambridge Arts Council.  \n  \nGiant Inflatables Workshop\nAgnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang (SMACT ’19)\nWiesner Gallery\, (W20-209)\nFebruary 16th | 11am-3pm\nFebruary 23rd | 11am-4:30pm  \nOver 2 sessions\, we will collaboratively make a giant inflatable! No experience required. First session: intro to sewing and designing inflatables. Second session: make a room sized inflatable/an inflatable room. There will be food.  \n  \nPixilate: A Spontaneous Collective Animation Workshop\nSamuel Mendez\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 17th\, 12-1:30pm \nIn this workshop\, participants will receive a basic introduction to the mechanics of pixilation: stop-motion animation using human body movement. Then\, they will learn through creating a short animation collaboratively\, one photo at a time\, using only body movement. This workshop aims to expose anyone interested to a budget-friendly animation technique\, and expand all participants’ notions of what can be said without words. No previous formal artistic experience necessary. Comfortable clothes recommended.  \nSamuel Mendez is a Master’s student in the Department of Comparative Media Studies at MIT.  \n  \nAn Analog Interface in a Digital World\nKalli Retzepi\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nOpening February 18th\, 6pm  \nBranden Hookway describes the interface as a “form of relation”. As interfaces increasingly work by inserting themselves in our subconscious ways of being\, this short photographic exploration probes the nature of our encounters with them by creating a dialogue between digital and analog interfaces\, and asks\, given our techno-cultural context\, what the consequences of these momentary mediations are.  \nKalli Retzepi is a graduate student at the Media Lab. She uses technology\, design\, and images in order to explore the politics of digital interfaces\, the narrative of the user and to imagine new metaphors for the Web.  \n  \nTraditional Dyeing Workshop\nElizabeth James Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag)\, weaver\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 21st\, 1-5pm \nParticipate in this fun hands-on workshop to learn how to dye with natural materials and traditional techniques. Through the process\, learn about local plant ecology and textile arts traditions in the Northeast Algonquian Tribal Nations from Wampanoag culture-bearer and master weaver\, Elizabeth James Perry. Make a dyed item to take away with you. \nElizabeth James Perry will also be speaking about her work on Wednesday February 20\, 2019 7pm in the Bartos Theater. \n  \nSkip Read Open Studio\nBilly Foshay\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 22nd\, 6:30-8:30pm \nSkip reading is an adaptation of William Borough’s “cut-up method” that allows readers to skip freely around different portions of a text to create new non-linear interpretations. The goal is to surpass the linearity of reading by rearranging words through the readers’ discretion to composite a new text. Participants are encouraged to bring in a text of their choosing they wish to be skip read. This could be writing of their own or of another – a textbook\, a poem\, a paper\, an online review\, an email\, etc. Each skip read text will require three readers\, and therefore 3 electronic copies of the text. The readers will take turns reading a selected portion of the text – the next reader picking up where the previous left off and continuing the cycle until the group feels the composite is complete. The audio will be captured with microphones and recording devices.  \nBilly Foshay is an MFA candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.  \n  \nREALIZSTANCE\nSultan Sharrief\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 23rd-24th\, 1-6pm \nA mixed reality performance piece in which a group comes together\, develops a script that fits into an existing VR structure\, and puts on an event for their peers. The narrative involves a message that has been sent back from the future and encourages people to come together and join in a compassion dance that is rooted in spiritual traditions from around the world. The event is creative with performance\, set design\, hair and makeup design\, cosplay\, live action role playing elements\, as well as use of new technology like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in a communal setting. At the end of the experience\, there is a curriculum that was developed with the transformative justice project in Detroit where the event partners facilitate discussions with the attendees. The goal is to use creative practice as a means of fostering collaboration across difference and creating safe space for sensitive but in depth dialog about race and class.  \nSultan Sharrief is a trans-media activist\, filmmaker\, educator\, and social entrepreneur. His interest lies at the intersection of art\, business\, and community impact. \n  \nCybernetics Library: The Anti-Canonizer (working title)\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 25th\, Time TBD \nThe Cybernetics Library\, a collective of artists\, architects\, and designers\, who have created a physical library around the history of cybernetics\, as well as organizing events like the Cybernetics Conference in 2018\, will be hosting a workshop as part of February School exploring connections between their work and collection and MIT. They will also bring some great books. More details to come! \n  \nGardening Workshop\nLaura Knott\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 27th\, 10am-1pm  \nIt may seem that gardeners are growing tomatoes\, or zucchini\, or pumpkins\, corn\, and beans. But the best gardeners are growing soil. And\, in the meantime\, they’re growing communities of bacteria and fungi and\, sometimes\, of neighbors and friends. This workshop brings together textual references and a little dirt\, to think together about food\, seeds\, and gardening as a generative and regenerative action.  \nLaura Knott is an artist\, curator\, editor and author\, specializing in work at the intersection of art and technology. She is also an alumna of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.  \n  \nEcosystem: The Sentence Verses the Line and the Line Verses the Sentence\nKevin McLellan\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nFebruary 27th\, 2-4pm \nWe must consider that each line of poetry is an independent division of information that has the ability to accommodate both separation and wholeness\, yet each line also informs or speaks to the abutting lines\, thus challenging: the sentence\, the sentence’s preoccupations\, and the reader’s expectations. In this seminar we will contemplate the sentence and the line; participate in a relevant writing prompt; and then engage in discussion.  \nKevin McLellan is the author of Hemispheres (Fact-Simile Editions\, forthcoming)\, Ornitheology (The Word Works\, 2018)\, [box] (Letter [r] Press\, 2016)\, Tributary (Barrow Street\, 2015)\, and Round Trip (Seven Kitchens\, 2010). He won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize and Gival Press’ 2016 Oscar Wilde Award\, and his poems appear in numerous literary journals including: American Letters & Commentary\, Colorado Review\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review\, West Branch\, Western Humanities Review\, and Witness. Kevin is a Financial Assistant in MIT’s Program in Art\, Culture\, and Technology.  \n  \nClosing Party\nWiesner Gallery (W20-209)\nThursday February 28th\, 8pm \nCome celebrate the end of the February School 2019! \n  \nMutual Pictures #6: November Actions\nHosted in collaboration with MIT Radius and MIT KSA\nBartos Theater (E15-070)\nMarch 4th\, 6pm \nFilm screening of excerpts of “November Actions”\, a powerful documentary by Ricky Leacock following the protests of MIT students\, faculty\, and staff against the war in Vietnam and MIT’s complicity in that war. Followed by a moderated conversation with a panel to provide focused discussion on three pressing issues/crises facing the MIT community: Ethics of AI and the #techlash movement of tech workers; MIT and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and Local Impact of MIT: Housing and physical operations (sustainability/environmental issues). We will invite one local expert on each of these issues to serve as panelist. \nThis event provides not only historical information but also inspiration and a strong sense of “what’s next” amongst the community for actions we can take now (letter signing re: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and MIT\, lunches to talk about how to work in the tech industry within an ethical framework\, how to learn more about MIT’s real estate dynasty and how that is impacting our area of Cambridge). \nOn March 4\, 1969\, there was an extraordinary mass meeting of MIT faculty\, students and staff to protest MIT’s complicity in the Vietnam War. This was considered a “positive protest” and included plans for positive action. Included in the storied panel of speakers were Noam Chomsky\, Lionel Trilling and Nobel Laureate George Wald. Wald’s speech “A Generation in Search of a Future” became known world-wide. In addition\, the day marks the founding of the Union of Concerned Scientists. \nJoin us for an exploration of the power of protest at MIT focusing on this momentous moment in MIT’s history. What can we learn from previous protests and use that knowledge and energy to spur the Institute to create ethical policies?  \nWe will screen excerpts of November Actions: Defiance at MIT\,1969—a powerful documentary following the protests of MIT students\, faculty and staff against the war in Vietnam and MIT’s complicity in that war–protests that lead to the historic March 4th event. \n This will be followed by a moderated conversation with a panel to provide focused discussion on three pressing issues facing the MIT community: \nThe Ethics of AI: Abby Everett Jaques\, a philosopher at MIT\, is the Ethics lead for MIT’s Quest for Intelligence\, and a Research Fellow in Digital Ethics at the Jain Family Institute \nMIT’s on-going relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Ryan Costello\, Coalition to Stop the Genocide in Yemen \nLocal Impact of MIT: Housing: Rose Lenehan\, MIT Graduate Student in Philosophy and tenant organizer  \nModerator: David Wright\, PhD\, Senior Scientist and Co-Director\, Global Security Program\, Union of Concerned Scientists \nIntroductory Remarks: Deborah G. Douglas\, Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology at MIT Museum\, and Research Associate in MIT’s Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society \nThis event will be a starting point for additional programs\, lunches\, panels later on in spring 2019\, focusing more specifically on these issues. Participants at the MIT March 4 @ 50 Years event would be able to sign up for follow-up programming.   \nThe MIT Press has recently published March 4\, Anniversary Edition: Scientists\, Students\, and Society\, edited by Jonathan Allen and foreword by Kurt Gottfriend\, co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists.  \nRefreshments will be served. \nCo-Sponsored with the MIT Faculty Newsletter\, and the MIT Day of Action Committee \n  \nMachine + Arm Knitting Workshop\nCarmel Snow\nMarch 8th \nA hands on arm + machine knitting workshop learn- ing basic knit structures knitting theory and material innovation. Explore 3D knitting thru making shapes innovative knit struc- tures and material designs to make new forms objects and sculptures with textiles. In the workshop you will learn basic arm knitting domestic machine knitting and learn more about Indus- trial knitting craft + industry. Carmel Snow will talk about her tex- tile journey and whats happening in the knit revolution world- wide. Feel free to bring yarn rope threads to knit + explore with. \nCarmel Snow is a CNC Knit Researcher at the Self Assembly Lab at MIT \nSign up required\, email info@thefebruary.school to register. \n  \nFebruary School is supported by MIT Office for Graduate Education\, the Graduate Student Council and Arts Committee.
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