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Emilija Škarnulytė | Diving through strata: From the cosmic and geological to the ecological and political
November 25, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Ongoing
Fall 2024 Lecture Series
September 23, 2024
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December 6, 2024
ACT Cube (E15-001) and Long Lounge (7-429)
Recently
Lucy Orta
October 24, 2024, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge
How To Fill 0.0159425696 Acres
October 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
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November 3, 2024, 5:00 pm
ACT Gallery
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2024
October 16, 2024
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October 17, 2024
Virtual
Atif Akin | morph, mutant, myth
October 7, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Anne Duk Hee Jordan | Worldbuilding in Times of Ecological Disruptions: Embracing Artificial Stupidity, the Digital Gaze, and the Power of Analog Movements and Natural Intelligence
September 23, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Arts on the Radar 2024
September 6, 2024, 6:30 pm
MIT E15
Events & Exhibitions Archive
Ethos of Abstraction in Biodesign
August 13, 2024
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August 23, 2024
ACT Gallery
Traveling Laundry Line Film Screening
June 1, 2024, 12:00 pm
MIT Museum
Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research: Topics in Biological Arts, Ethics, and Automation at MIT Museum
May 14, 2024, 10:00 am
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12:30 pm
MIT Museum
Sky. Pond. Mouth. Book Launch
May 8, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
The whole star is a moving skin
April 27, 2024, 8:00 am
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May 5, 2024, 5:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery
Shaping Spatial Constellations
April 16, 2024, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Wiesner Room
Daniel R. Small | Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene
April 8, 2024, 6:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Sky Art 24 – Symposium & Exhibition
April 5, 2024, 2:00 pm
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5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Anissa Touati | Imagining Communities through Architecture: The Mediterranean Sea as a Constellation
March 21, 2024, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge
Kimberly Juanita Brown | Mortevivum
March 18, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Curator’s Tour | Atmospheres – Art, Climate, and Space Research
March 1, 2024, 1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
ACT Cube
Jackson 2bears | Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe
February 12, 2024, 6:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Atmospheres – Art, Climate, and Space Research
February 1, 2024, 11:00 am
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March 1, 2024, 2:00 pm
ACT Cube
Undergrad Class Fair for Spring 2024
December 13, 2023, 1:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Wiesner Room
.zerodotzerozerozerozerozerozerozerozeroone Opening Panel and Exhibition
December 6, 2023, 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
MIT.nano Teaching Space
The Biggest Obstacle Film Screening and Conversation with MIT Disabilities ERG
December 5, 2023, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Aubrie R.M. James | shore/lime/line/light
December 1, 2023, 9:00 am
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January 14, 2024, 6:00 pm
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Matej Vakula
November 27, 2023, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Sarah Kanouse | My Electric Genealogy
November 16, 2023, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Albert Figurt
November 6, 2023, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2023
November 6, 2023
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November 8, 2023
Virtual
Sama Alshaibi, Sadik Alfraji, and Huma Gupta | From the Great Flood to the Great Migration
October 26, 2023, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge (7-429)
Margit Rosen | Of Bored Machines and Enthusiastic Humans. Gordon Pask and the Art of Conversation
October 23, 2023, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Seth Riskin
October 23, 2023, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Márton Orosz | György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Science
October 21, 2023, 7:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Fall 2023 Lecture Series
October 21, 2023
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November 16, 2023
Various
CAVS 55
October 20, 2023
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October 23, 2023
Various
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Rhea Vedro
October 2, 2023, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Wiesner Room
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Joe Davis
September 18, 2023, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Wiesner Room
Artistic Inquiry Luncheon Series Fall 2023
September 18, 2023
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November 27, 2023
MIT E15
Arts on the Radar 2023
September 8, 2023, 7:00 pm
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11:00 pm
MIT E15
eros feeding thanatos feeding (eros)
June 27, 2023
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July 8, 2023
ACT Student Gallery
The Biggest Obstacle | Film Screening and Q+A with Gearóid Dolan
June 7, 2023, 5:30 pm
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7:30 pm
Bartos Theater (E15-070)
Counteractions: An ACT Thesis Screening
May 31, 2023, 2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
MIT Museum
Forensic Artifacts of a Democracy in Crisis
May 19, 2023, 5:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery (E15-095)
Frances Negrón-Muntaner | Valor y Cambio: Decolonizing Money in Puerto Rico
April 24, 2023, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
The Cube
2023 Max Wasserman Forum: Altered Access | Contemporary Art Forum
April 21, 2023
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April 22, 2023
The Cube
Jae Rhim Lee | What It’s Really About
April 10, 2023, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
The Cube
Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble
March 24, 2023, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery
The Art of Un-War | Film Screening and Discussion with Maria Niro and Krzysztof Wodiczko
March 20, 2023, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Bartos Theater
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales | Film Screening and Discussion with Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes
March 6, 2023, 5:30 pm
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7:30 pm
Bartos Theater
Malkit Shoshan | Design Activism: Border Ecologies and the Architecture of UN Missions
March 2, 2023, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Long Lounge
Free Rain
February 17, 2023, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery
Symbionts and What is Life? | Dual Book Launch and Discussion with Caroline A. Jones, Stefan Helmreich, and Sophia Roosth
February 16, 2023, 4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Pandemic Pondering Exhibition
February 10, 2023
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March 5, 2023
Keller Gallery
Ute Meta Bauer | Saying It Without Saying. Can a Biennale Be a Newspaper?: On The Process of Creating the 17th Istanbul Biennial
November 7, 2022, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2022
October 25, 2022
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October 27, 2022
Virtual Event
Cooking Sections | When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]
October 17, 2022, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge, 7-429
Artistic Research Conversation | Gearóid Dolan
October 7, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Ekow Eshun | In the Black Fantastic
September 21, 2022, 6:30 pm
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8:00 pm
Dreyfoos Auditorium
Lundahl & Seitl | A Language of What May Not Be Said
September 19, 2022, 2:00 pm
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7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Wojnarowicz in Cambridge
September 14, 2022
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October 26, 2022
Rotch Library Gallery
Arts on the Radar 2022
September 9, 2022, 5:00 pm
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11:00 pm
MIT Building E15 Lobby
Reconfiguración
September 9, 2022, 9:00 am
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October 29, 2022, 9:00 pm
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Un-War Exhibition
June 13, 2022
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October 28, 2022
ACT Corridor
zero.zerozerozerozerozeozerozerozeroone
May 27, 2022
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October 1, 2022
East Lobby at MIT.nano Building
Here and Elsewhere
May 27, 2022
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June 30, 2022
ACT Student Gallery
Soma Salon 002 | Art & Public Sphere: Choreographing the City
May 7, 2022, 4:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Herter Intercommunity Garden
Nida Sinnokrot | Palestine is not a Garden
April 28, 2022, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge 7-429
Artistic Research Conversation | Fragments & Approximations
April 21, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Jens Hauser | On Microperformativity: Alternative Animated Agencies in Art
April 12, 2022, 5:00 pm
Artistic Research Conversation | misrecognition
April 7, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Alia Farid
April 4, 2022, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Artistic Research Conversation | The Notion of ‘Community’ in Activist Urban Praxis: A Theory
April 1, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Artistic Research Conversation | GROUP PROBLEMS: Learning to Live Together at Scale
March 31, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Artistic Research Conversation | Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp
March 10, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Choreographing the City: Navigations
March 7, 2022, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2022 Lecture Series | Looking Forward ACT! Intersecting Explorations Across Art-Culture-Technology
March 7, 2022
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May 9, 2022
Classroom Conversations | Rafi Segal: The Fantastic Realities of Maps
February 16, 2022, 2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Artistic Research Conversation | Funding, Research, and Collaboration Opportunities with ppppress
February 10, 2022, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2022 Artistic Research Conversations
February 10, 2022
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April 28, 2022
No Humans in the City, but Weeds – Conversation & Website Launch
January 11, 2022, 8:30 am
Virtual Event
Art, Science & Climate Crisis Panel
December 6, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
ppppress Exhibition in Wiesner Gallery
December 6, 2021
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January 21, 2022
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
A 39,000-Year History of Virtuality
November 19, 2021, 12:30 pm
ACT Cube
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2021
November 16, 2021
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November 18, 2021
Virtual Event
POSTPONED: Sovereignty & Indigenous Curation Panel
November 15, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Boundary Conditions: Architecture, Simulation, Cinema
November 12, 2021, 12:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Cameron Rowland | Encumbrance
November 8, 2021, 6:00 pm
Contested History & Performative Preservation Panel
October 25, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Leslie Thornton | Begin Again, Again
October 23, 2021, 2:00 pm
Unbounded: Transmedia Storytelling @ MIT, 2019-2021
October 18, 2021
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November 23, 2021
Lina Lapelytė | Vibrations
September 27, 2021, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Sanford Biggers | Oracular
September 16, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Fall 2021 Lecture Series | Looking Forward ACT! Intersecting Explorations Across Art-Culture-Technology
September 16, 2021
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December 6, 2021
Stranger Senses Screening | Ars Electronica Festival 2021 Garden Program
September 10, 2021, 6:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Bartos Theatre (e15-070)
Cao Fei | Narrative Labyrinth – From Reality to Illusion, From Fantasy to Reality
May 3, 2021, 9:00 am
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11:00 am
Virtual Event
Azra Akšamija | Future Heritage
April 22, 2021
Virtual Event
Brook Andrew, Mario Caro, Candice Hopkins, and Miguel López | Indigenous Curation
April 12, 2021
April 6 | Working While Black | Tanya Wallace-Gobern and Thomas Shapiro
April 6, 2021
Transmedia Storytelling Initiative | 3D/5G: Surveillance and Agency
March 31, 2021, 5:00 pm
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6:30 pm
March 30 | Driving While Black | Frank Baumgartner and Gretchen Sorin
March 30, 2021, 1:00 pm
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2:30 pm
March 16 | Voting While Black | Darryl Pinckney and Nsé Ufot
March 16, 2021, 1:00 pm
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2:30 pm
Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Natq (impossible speech)
March 15, 2021
Virtual Event
Spring 2021 Lecture Series | The Incidence of Fingerprints When Earth Meets the Sky
March 15, 2021
March 2 | Learning While Black | Anthony Abraham Jack and Stefan Lallinger
March 2, 2021
Black Progress | Garrett Bradley and John Akomfrah
February 23, 2021, 1:00 pm
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2:30 pm
Virtual Event
Spring 2021 | Black Mobility and Safety in the US Lecture Series
February 23, 2021
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May 17, 2021
Virtual Event
Cesare Pietroiusti | Economic Principles and Artistic Use of Paradox
December 7, 2020, 2:00 pm
Virtual Event
John Bingham-Hall | Choreographing the City: Morning Conversations
November 16, 2020, 11:30 am
Virtual Event
Ekene Ijeoma | Poetic Justice
November 9, 2020, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Professor Hufanga Dr. ‘Okusitino Mahina | Choreographing the City
November 2, 2020, 5:30 pm
Virtual Event
Arianna Mazzeo | Choreographing the City: Morning Conversations
November 2, 2020, 11:00 am
Virtual Event
Barbara London | What’s Technology Got To Do With It?
October 26, 2020, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Virtual Event
Fall 2020 Lecture Series | The Allegorical Resonance of Alchemical Affect
October 26, 2020
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December 7, 2020
‘Data Magic and Democracy: Privacy, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling’
October 19, 2020, 5:30 pm
Virtual Event
Derek Hoffend on Video Installation
October 14, 2020, 2:00 pm
Fall 2020 | Black Mobility and Safety in the US Lecture Series
September 8, 2020
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November 17, 2020
Virtual Event
Who Feels at Home in the Visible World?
September 5, 2020
Virtual Exhibition
Arts on the Radar 2020
September 3, 2020
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September 5, 2020
Virtual Event
Jasmine Dreame Wagner | Artists and Archives
April 7, 2020, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Stefanie Hessler | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
March 30, 2020, 11:00 am
E15-001
Robert Dell | Artists and Archives
March 10, 2020, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2020 | Artists and Archives Series
March 10, 2020
ACT Cube
Carlos Garaicoa | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
March 9, 2020, 11:00 am
E15-001
Brian Mayton | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
March 4, 2020, 11:00 am
E15-001
Stephen Prina | ¡Stephen Prina Live!
March 2, 2020, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Nicole L’Huillier | Artistic Research Luncheon
February 27, 2020, 12:30 pm
E15-207
Jill Magid | The Proposal
February 10, 2020, 4:30 pm
ACT Cube
Dora García | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
February 10, 2020, 11:30 am
E15-001
Spring 2020 Lecture Series | The Allegorical Resonance of Alchemical Affect
February 10, 2020
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May 4, 2020
The MIT Nuclear Reactor | Artistic Research Luncheon
February 4, 2020, 12:30 pm
E15-207
Artistic Luncheon Series | Spring 2020
February 4, 2020
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April 14, 2020
ACT Cube
Martin Guinard | Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics
December 5, 2019, 12:30 pm
E15-207
Naeem Mohaiemen | A Missing Can of Film
December 2, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Kevin McLellan | Hemispheres Book Launch
November 21, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Raitis Smits – Digital Art and Archiving in the 21st Century
November 15, 2019, 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
deRoth Room
Diffractions: Holography at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
November 12, 2019
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November 29, 2019
E15-223
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2019
November 8, 2019, 11:30 am
Wiesner Building (E15)
Joe Davis | BioArt
October 31, 2019, 2:30 pm
ACT Cube
The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: György Kepes at MIT
October 10, 2019, 2:30 pm
E15-207
Gediminas Urbonas | Wet Ontologies of the Swamp
October 7, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Sarah Oppenheimer | FE_20190923: Periodic Function
September 23, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Fall 2019 Lecture Series: The Inexplicable Wonder of Precipitous Events
September 23, 2019
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December 2, 2019
ACT Cube
Futurity Island: Amphibian Pedagogies and Submerged Perspectives
September 6, 2019
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September 7, 2019
ACT Cube
Joan Jonas | Sources and Methods
September 5, 2019
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June 1, 2021
ACT Gallery
Sakiya | Between the Qaiqab and the Ballut
August 2, 2019
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August 3, 2019
Ein Qiniya, Ramallah
Mutual Pictures #8
June 9, 2019, 7:00 pm
Bartos Theatre
2019 SA+P Thesis Show
June 6, 2019
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September 27, 2019
Gallery 9
2019 Schnitzer Prize Exhibition
June 5, 2019, 12:00 pm
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series | Demian DinéYazhi´(Diné)
May 23, 2019, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Put That There | ACT Studio Exhibition
May 21, 2019
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May 29, 2019
MIT Building 41
Inadelso Cossa | Personal Perspectives on Mozambican History through Film
May 6, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Bartos Theatre
Film Screening: A Memory in Three Acts + The Dead Tell No Tales
May 6, 2019, 4:00 pm
Bartos Theatre
Keller Easterling | Medium Design
April 29, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series | Skawennati
April 18, 2019, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Haidee Wasson
April 17, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
Archiving the Intersection of Art and Technology
April 17, 2019
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April 26, 2019
ACT Archive
New Media and Civic Arts Series: DIS Collective (Lauren Boyle)
April 10, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
Beth Stryker | Critical Mapping and Tactical Interventions
April 1, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Jaroslav Švelch
March 20, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi
March 6, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Spring 2019
March 5, 2019
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May 9, 2019
deRoth Room
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series | Elizabeth James Perry
February 20, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Bartos Theater
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Caren Kaplan
February 20, 2019, 5:00 pm
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6:30 pm
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series
February 20, 2019
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May 23, 2019
New Media and Civic Arts Series – Spring 2019
February 20, 2019
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April 17, 2019
Franco Mattes | People Disguised as Algorithms
February 11, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2019 Lecture Series | The Digital Hum of the Long, Slow Now
February 11, 2019
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May 6, 2019
February School 2019
February 6, 2019
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March 8, 2019
Wiesner Gallery (W20-209)
David Joselit | Untranslatable: Conceptual Art since the 90s
December 10, 2018, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Joan Jonas and Sung Hwan Kim | In Conversation
December 3, 2018, 6:00 pm
Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
November 19, 2018, 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
ACT Cube (e15-001)
Raitis Smits | Digital Art and Archiving in the 21st Century
November 15, 2018, 12:30 pm
E15-283a
Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
November 14, 2018, 7:00 pm
Building 32-155
Richard Sennett | The Good Craftsman
November 13, 2018, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Fall 2018 Lecture Series: Vibrant Signs and Indeterminant Matter(s)
November 13, 2018
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December 10, 2018
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
October 18, 2018, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
October 4, 2018, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
September 13, 2018, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
New Media and Civic Arts Series – Fall 2018
September 13, 2018
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November 15, 2018
ACT Cube
Arts on the Radar 2018
September 7, 2018, 7:00 pm
Wiesner Building
The Swamp Pavilion: Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale
May 26, 2018
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November 25, 2018
Venice Architecture Biennale
Rasa Smite | Renewable Futures
May 3, 2018, 12:30 pm
deRoth Room
In Our Present Condition…
May 1, 2018
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July 15, 2018
SA+P Dean's Office Gallery
Creating Indigenous Futures
April 28, 2018, 11:45 am
ACT Cube
Zooetics+ Symposium
April 27, 2018
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April 28, 2018
MIT Building E15
Joe Paradiso | Resynthesizer
April 27, 2018
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May 31, 2018
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Marisa Morán Jahn | CareForce One Travelogues
April 25, 2018
ACT Cube
Honor Harger | Sounds in Space: Revealing the Invisible Universe
March 8, 2018
ACT Cube
Xu Bing | Dragonfly Eyes
March 7, 2018
Bartos Theatre
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Spring 2018
February 13, 2018
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May 8, 2018
deRoth Room
The February School
February 7, 2018
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February 28, 2018
Wiesner Gallery
Antenna at Dutch Design Week
December 13, 2017
Dutch Design Week
Judith Barry | A Discussion of Several Research-Based Projects
December 4, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Postcommodity | The Repellent Fence and Beyond
November 13, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Cube
David Reinfurt | A Post-Industrial Postscript
October 20, 2017, 2:00 pm
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5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Cristina Ricupero | Don’t Believe A Word I Say
September 25, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Fall 2017
September 20, 2017
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October 16, 2017
Wiesner Room, E15-207
Trevor Paglen | The Planet is a Sensor
September 11, 2017, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
ACT Cube
Fall 2017 Lecture Series | The Edge of Knowing and Un-Knowing
September 11, 2017
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December 4, 2017
Public Space? Lost and Found Publication + Launches
May 4, 2017
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May 11, 2017
New York City + Venice
Cynthia Madansky | 1+8
April 25, 2017, 7:00 pm
Bartos Theatre
Pedro Reyes | Art as Conflict Resolution
April 24, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Tania Bruguera | Can Aesthetics Disarm Oppression?
March 13, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Spring 2017
February 22, 2017
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May 1, 2017
E15-207
Jill Magid | Permission as Material
February 13, 2017, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2017 Lecture Series | Double Agents
February 13, 2017
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April 24, 2017
Chus Martinez | The Duck is the Übermensch
December 5, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Gerald Raunig | Dividuum
November 7, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Marta Kuzma | [BRECHT]IT: EXIT STAGE LEFT
October 31, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Tobias Putrih | Slight Agitation 1/4
October 20, 2016
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January 22, 2017
Fondazione Prada
Urbonas Studio | Future Fictions Summit: Iceland
October 13, 2016
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October 22, 2016
Reykjavík Art Museum
Cristina Ricupero | Secret Societies and the Limits of Transparency
October 5, 2016
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October 7, 2016
Etienne Turpin | Computation Rules Everything Around Me
October 3, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Azra Akšamija | Fitch Colloquium: Preservation and War
September 30, 2016
Columbia
Florian Schneider | Imaginary Property
September 26, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Fall 2016 Lecture Series | Tinker User Tracer Human
September 26, 2016
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December 5, 2016
Cinematic Migrations at Fondazione Antonio Ratti (far)
July 1, 2016
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July 23, 2016
Fondazione Antonio Ratti (far)
Urbonas Studio | The Druzhba Project
May 27, 2016
–
November 27, 2016
Venice Architecture Biennale
Don’t/Erase/Till/Monday
May 5, 2016, 7:00 pm
Carpenter Center
Lars Bang Larsen | Mediated Entities
May 2, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Corinne Diserens | Historical Resonances
April 25, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Azra Akšamija | The Memory Matrix
April 23, 2016
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May 7, 2016
Wiesner Building
Ron Martin | Infinite Footsteps
April 20, 2016
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April 23, 2016
Building 37
Ina Blom | Rethinking/Collective/Memory/In the Age of Digital Archives
April 15, 2016
Technology/Affect/Space: Workshop with Eric Kluitenberg
April 6, 2016
ACT Cube
Anna-Sophie Springer | Curatorial-Editorial Urgencies/ A Palimpsest of Species and Spaces
March 28, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Future Island: Cuba
March 7, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev | Empathy and Artistic Relations
February 29, 2016, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Spring 2016 Lecture Series | Curation: Agencies + Urgencies
February 29, 2016
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May 2, 2016
Pelin Tan | Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear
November 16, 2015
Wendelien van Oldenborgh | Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
November 9, 2015
Marjetica Potrč | Public Space is a Social Agreement
October 26, 2015
PAW | 10 Actions at ICA Boston
October 21, 2015
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December 3, 2015
ICA Boston
Rosa Barba | On Objects as Ideas
October 19, 2015
Maryam Jafri | Between Storyboard and Grid, Some Recent Works
October 5, 2015, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Fall 2015 Lecture Series | Toward a Philosophy of the Act
October 5, 2015
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November 16, 2015
The Center in Print | CAVS Poster Exhibition
June 18, 2015
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August 18, 2015
Rotch Library
it could be an algorithm: karada/sex/watch/repeat/archive/chewing/clues/translation
May 16, 2015
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May 18, 2015
Wiesner Building
Claire Pentecost | The Quick and the Dirty
April 13, 2015
Rikke Luther | Public Place in its Meltdown Area
April 6, 2015
Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol | Proposition for Reclaiming a Space
March 16, 2015
Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou | Co-producing the City
March 9, 2015
Jeanne van Heeswijk | Fields of Interactions
March 4, 2015
Doris Sommer | The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
March 2, 2015
Spring 2015 Lecture Series | Toward Civic Art
February 2, 2015
Daniela Pérez and Patrick Charpenel | Gustav Metzger’s Dome(s) Project
December 8, 2014
Gabriel Kahan | Regenarratives
November 24, 2014
Neil Leonard | Sound Installation and Concert
November 19, 2014, 8:00 pm
Wiesner Building
Kelly Nipper | Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture
November 17, 2014
Homecoming after Death: An Islamic Cemetery in Austria
October 20, 2014
CULTURUNNERS | CULTURUNNERS@MIT
October 6, 2014
CULTURUNNERS
October 1, 2014
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October 6, 2014
Wiesner Building
Marko Peljhan | Dronological: The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems
September 22, 2014
Fall 2014 Lecture Series
September 22, 2014
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December 8, 2014
Elvan Zabunyan | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Translations of Memory
April 28, 2014
Yvonne Rainer | Where’s the Passion? Where’s the Politics?
April 7, 2014
Kazue Kobata | Migration Inside-Out: Contemplate, Imagine, Act…
March 17, 2014
Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6, 2014
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March 7, 2014
ACT Cube
John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul | Transfigured Night
March 3, 2014
Spring 2014 Lecture Series | Cinematic Migrations
March 3, 2014
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April 28, 2014
Scanner/Vitiello
February 10, 2014, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Joan Jonas | Reanimation, An Ongoing Performance
December 9, 2013
Azra Akšamija | Solidarity Works: Politics of Cultural Memory
December 5, 2013
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March 21, 2014
Ryan Kuo | Party
November 25, 2013
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January 10, 2014
Venus Window
Tarek Elhaik | The Incurable-Image
November 25, 2013
Florian Hecker: Chimerizations — Book Signing
November 13, 2013
John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul
November 4, 2013
Lovett/Codagnone | Re-Adapting Cinematic Traces
October 21, 2013
Charles Atlas | Instantaneous! and Everywhere?
October 7, 2013
Fall 2013 Lecture Series | Cinematic Migrations
October 7, 2013
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December 9, 2013
Azra Aksamija | Wearable Mosques
August 2, 2013
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October 1, 2013
Resonating MIT
May 13, 2013
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May 17, 2013
Guerino Mazzola & Reza Negarestani | Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation
May 9, 2013
Luke Fowler | Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation
May 1, 2013
Simin Farkhondeh | Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
April 29, 2013
Keith Fullerton Whitman | Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation
April 22, 2013
Nora Alter | Listening to Marker
April 8, 2013
Knut Åsdam | The Long Gaze, The Short Gaze
March 18, 2013
Gediminas Urbonas and KARAOKE at Transmediale 2013
March 12, 2013
Karim Aïnouz | I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
March 11, 2013
Cinematic Migrations | Seminars with John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul
March 4, 2013
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March 5, 2013
John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul | Considering the Stuart Hall Project
March 4, 2013
Arthur Jafa | APEX_TNEG
February 25, 2013
Spring 2013 Lecture Series: Experiments in Thinking, Action & Form: Cinematic Migrations
February 25, 2013
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April 29, 2013
Tadej Pogačar | P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
December 10, 2012, 5:30 pm
Media Lab
Krista Lynes | Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village
November 26, 2012
Ros Gray | The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography
November 19, 2012
Chip Lord | Recent Projects: Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule] and To & From LAX
November 5, 2012
John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul | Reconsidering Handsworth Songs
October 30, 2012
Jesal Kapadia | Affects and Emotions for a Non-capitalist Cinema
October 15, 2012
Fall 2012 Lecture Series | Experiments in Thinking, Action & Form: Cinematic Migrations
October 15, 2012
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November 26, 2012
Cinematic Migrations
September 1, 2012
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May 1, 2014
Renée Green | Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams
May 3, 2012
ACT Cube
Michael Eng | Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
April 9, 2012
Muntadas | Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
April 9, 2012
Sylvère Lotringer | Topology of Autonomy
April 6, 2012, 1:30 pm
ACT Cube
Gloria Sutton | Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
April 2, 2012
Taru Elfving | Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
March 12, 2012
Bruce Yonemoto | Re-representations and Simulations
March 5, 2012
Michael Corris | What Do Artists Know? Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
February 13, 2012
Spring 2012 Lecture Series | Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form
February 13, 2012
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April 23, 2012
Disobedience Archive
December 9, 2011, 12:00 am
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April 15, 2012, 12:00 am
Media Lab
Celebrating CAVS
December 8, 2011
MIT Wiesner Building (E15)
Amar Kanwar
November 21, 2011
Shun Kanda & James Wescoat | MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
November 14, 2011
Stella McGregor: Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency
November 7, 2011
Lucy Walker | 99 is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary
October 31, 2011
INTELLIGENT LIFE — The Second Tribute to Commemorate Electroacoustic Pioneer Marianne Amacher
October 22, 2011
Otto Piene | Lichtballett
October 21, 2011
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December 31, 2011
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Documentary Fictions: The Otolith Group In Conversation with TJ Demos
October 21, 2011
Bartos Theater
Joichi Ito | Enabling Emergent Voices and Expression Through Technology
October 17, 2011
Jack Persekian | In the Meantime
October 3, 2011
Tess Thackara: Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights
September 26, 2011
Fall 2011 Lecture Series | Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions – Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis
September 26, 2011
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November 21, 2011
Joan Jonas | My New Theater: Reading Dante III
September 14, 2011
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October 31, 2011
MIT Lobby E14
Otto Piene: Sky Event at Fast Light 2011
September 7, 2011
Killian Court
Attila Csörgö | Turning Out the Space
April 4, 2011
Ricardo Dominguez | Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology
March 28, 2011
Jae Rhim Lee | Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and Other
March 14, 2011
Laurent Grasso | Science & Fictions
March 7, 2011
AR – Artistic Research
March 3, 2011
Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg | A Guide to Campo Del Cielo
February 28, 2011
Florian Dombois | Luginsland (On Art as Research)
February 14, 2011
Spring 2011 Lecture Series | Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet
February 4, 2011
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April 4, 2011
Lauren Bon | Metabolic Studio
November 8, 2010
Steve Dietz | Build Your Own World
November 1, 2010
Sheila Kennedy | Soft, Smart & Stealthy: New Paradigms for Design Practice
October 25, 2010
Dava Newman | Second Skin Bio-Suit
October 18, 2010
Omar Foglio and Jose Luis Figueroa | Tierra Brillante
October 4, 2010
Laura Anderson Barbata | Twenty-first Century Living in the Amazon: in the Order of Chaos
September 27, 2010
Regina Maria Moeller | Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin and Poison Ivy
September 20, 2010
Elke Gaugele | Climate Changes in Science Fashion
September 13, 2010
Fall 2010 Lecture Series | Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments
September 13, 2010
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November 8, 2010
Magda Fernandez
March 15, 2010
Peter Schumann with John Bell moderator
March 8, 2010
Constanza Macras with Jay Scheib, moderator
March 1, 2010
Xavier Le Roy with Nell Breyer, moderator
February 22, 2010
Spring 2010 Lecture Series | The Theatrical/ The Performative/ The Transformative
February 22, 2010
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April 12, 2010