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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Victoria Shen
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Shen is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sound and performance based in San Francisco. \nShen’s practice is concerned with the materiality of sound and its relationship to the human body through a lens of disruption and experimentation. She creates and manipulates custom-built sculptures and extensions specific to her body to challenge conventional methods of sound production and erode the boundaries between performer\, tool\, and audience. \nEschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones\, Shen uses what she calls “chaotic sound” to oppose signal and information\, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her work resists passive consumption. Instead\, the body as both subject and instrument\, using movement and tactility to provoke visceral\, often confrontational encounters with sound. Her performances are deliberately physical\, unpredictable\, and ephemeral—rejecting polish in favor of raw immediacy. \nThrough a discursive practice spanning sound\, performance\, installation\, sculpture\, and non-traditional means of distribution\, themes of spectacle\, violence\, control\, and gender are interrogated. The intention is not to comfort or entertain\, but to destabilize: to push systems\, tools\, and traditions until they reveal something unexpected. \nPart of ACT’s Spring 2026 Lecture Series\, this program is in collaboration with the List Visual Arts Center and Non-Event. \nThe event is free and open to the public\, though registration is required. Register here. \n 
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/artist-talk-with-victoria-shen/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo | The Datacenter Does Not Exist
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines AI infrastructure through exocapitalism\, a framework for understanding how capital can move independently of physical constraints like energy\, labor\, and raw materials. We’ll explore the strange economics of the AI boom (trillion-dollar announcements\, debts backed by computer chips\, and endless layers of intermediary management services) to argue that the “datacenter” now exists primarily as a financial object: a bundle of contracts\, debts\, and speculative claims. We conclude by identifying the race that will define 2026: between the financialization of massively-centralized infrastructure and the death of software as we currently know it. \nMarek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo’s Exocapitalism: Economics with Absolutely No Limits (2025\, Becoming Press) has been lauded as among both the most controversial and the most accurate assessments of this economic moment — from “unbelievably inspiring” (Hito Steyerl) to “the Das Kapital of the 21st Century” (New Models) to “an info-hazard” (Metalabel) by “Hegel’s grandchildren” (Nick Land\, derogatory). Marek and Roberto won Google’s 2024 Art and Machine Intelligence Award for their work in AI interface design. \nThis event is part of ACT’s Spring 2026 Lecture Series and is in collaboration with MIT Radius. It is free and open to the public\, though registration is required. Register here. \nSpecial thanks to ACT Graduate Student Hugh Scott-Douglas (SMACT ’27) for spearheading this event.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/marek-poliks-and-roberto-alonso-trillo-the-datacenter-does-not-exist/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
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SUMMARY:Max Cheever | Contents
DESCRIPTION:Max Cheever | Contents\nMarch 9 – March 22\, 2026\n12-5pm (Closed on Mondays)\nOpening reception: March 12th 2026\, 5:30-7:30PM \nContents is an exhibition featuring artwork from Max Cheever (SMACT ‘27). \nThrough the work\, the importance of framing is examined through structured methods of communication. \nContents: 8 wooden posts\, 4 cardboard boxes\, 4 wooden shelves\, 2 glass mirrors. Metaphorically: What the work rests upon\, within\, and around. \nLiterally: A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else. Paradoxically: How to wander on a path already constructed? \nDrawing inspiration from both literary and artistic works\, the exhibition seeks to investigate a transformative process: An artwork that initially engages with specific procedural and aesthetic paradigms\, when examined\, foregrounds fundamentally divergent conceptual\, formal\, or emotional concerns. In other words\, the difference between contents and content: that which can only be engaged with through a reading. \nJoin us for the opening reception on Thursday\, March 12th\, 5:30PM-7:30PM. The reception will be accompanied with a looped screening of the 3 minute film Look in Bartos Theater that viewers can experience as they please for the duration of the opening. Refreshments will be served.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/max-cheever-contents/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260221
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SUMMARY:Eliot Z. Felde and Sophia Chefalo | Dust Ingot
DESCRIPTION:Dust Ingot: An exhibition from Eliot Z. Felde (SMACT ’26) and Sophia Chefalo (SMACT ’26). \nOpening on Friday\, February 13\, 2026\nThe show runs from February 14-20\, 2026
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/eliot-z-felde-and-sophia-chefalo-dust-ingot/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T180000
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SUMMARY:Reza Negarestani | Modeling as Tektological Praxis
DESCRIPTION:Modeling as Tektological Praxis\nBy Reza Negarestani \nThis event is Free and Open to the Public. Register here. \nThis talk examines a cross-disciplinary problem: when compression in modeling—across scales or by computational cost—enables explanation and control\, and when it effaces the organizational structure on which action depends. It is framed by Alexander Bogdanov’s account of organization (ingression / disingression) and substitution as proto-modeling procedures developed within collective political practice\, and it reconsiders Michael Weisberg’s criteria of similarity and simulation as pillars of modeling across disciplines. A pragmatic rubric—fidelity\, transfer\, logical depth—is proposed to align modeling architectures with the generative structure of their targets\, disciplining the use of surrogate models\, multiscale simulation\, inverse design\, and forecasting. In Bogdanov’s register\, the upshot is that modeling’s practical expediency—its capacity to travel across domains without loss of organizational constraint and depth—grounds a concrete universalism rooted in collective revolutionary experimental practice and extending across art\, science\, mathematics\, engineering\, and collective political action. \nThe talk will be followed by a roundtable moderated by Ardalan SadeghiKivi (Lecturer of Comparative Media Studies at MIT)\, in conversation with W. Craig Carter (Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT)\, and Gediminas Urbonas (Professor of the Art\, Culture\, and Technology at MIT). \nThis event is organized with support from: Renée Green\, Tobias Putrih\, and MIT.nano. \n\nPart of the Fall 2025 Lecture Series.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/reza-negarestani-modeling-as-tektological-praxis/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251212
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Data and Life-Like Processes in Digital Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Data and Life-Like Processes in Digital Art\nDecember 8 – 11\, 2025\nViewable by appointment. Please contact the TA for the course\, Will Allstetter (SMACT ’27). \nThe exhibition is a showcase of the students’ final projects for the course “Visualizing Data and Life-Like Processes in Digital Art\,” taught in Fall 2025 by Matej Vakula. Their projects aim to interpret information from a wide range of datasets: from pollution concentration in Shanghai to cyanobacteria growth in the Charles River. Taking an artistic lens to work\, the works not only display the data\, but augment it with artistic\, open-ended lines of questioning. \nStudents in this course are: \n\n\n\n\nAnnie Yining Chen\n\n\nAnnie Yining Chen is an artist\, architectural designer\, and MDes Ecologies student at Harvard Graduate School of Design whose work bridges environmental research and interdisciplinary art. She is interested in merging architecture\, ecology\, and digital media to create immersive\, research-driven installations. Her recent work experiments with sound\, code\, and atmospheric data to explore collective rituals and shared environments.\n\n\n\n\nHanzhang Lai\n\n\nHanzhang Lai is a multidisciplinary designer and photographer currently pursuing a Master of Design Studies (Ecologies) at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her current research at Harvard GSD explores the intersection of sustainability\, climate change\, and social inequality. She is particularly interested in how climate migration and flood resilience strategies can be developed through a bottom-up architectural design approach to empower marginalized communities.​\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Peyer\n\n\n Michelle is in her second year of her Masters in Architecture and on exchange from ETH Zurich. She originally is from Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/visualizing-data-and-life-like-processes-in-digital-art-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T170000
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SUMMARY:Extensions of Soil
DESCRIPTION:Extensions of Soil\nNovember 7 – 14\, 2025\nGallery Hours: 12:00 – 5:00\n* Closed Mondays \nSpecial Events:\nNov 7: 5:00 – 7:00 Opening Reception and Musical Performance\nNov 11: 12:00 – 2:00 Children Drop-In Making Session \nExtensions of Soil is an installation by artist Coco Allred (SMACT ’26) and composer Ophelia Ariadne Worbes (Berklee College of Music). Within the soil\, mycelium\, comprised of fine strings\, creates vast underground networks that share information and nutrients across forests. Informed by the process of fungal networks\, Allred and Worbes turn to strings within their disciplines — paper weavers and string instruments — as the material starting point for creative exchange. \nThe gallery is enveloped in a woven meshwork of Tyvek\, a spun fibrous material most commonly used as a protective skin for buildings in process\, that evolves over the course of the installation through participatory weaving. Sculptures for Soil Drawings animate the surfaces of the installation with shadow projections of live drawing. Trio for Strings acts as the spore\, first heard in its premiere performance on Nov 7\, and becomes a source for iteration through improvisation in response to live weaving and soil drawing in the gallery. Presented as a score for the space in collaboration with sound designer Chuowen Liang\, Trio for Strings becomes a fractal composition entangled with the additional sites of production\, integrating recordings of the forest and the studio. We invite your participation as active shapers of this evolving network. \nThe title\, Extensions of Soil\, or EOS\, comes from Francis D. Hole (1913 – 2002)\, a geography and soil science professor at UW-Madison. He understood love as a necessary condition for social change and transformation and created songs\, experiences\, and terminology to encourage shifting relationality to soil\, appreciating it as a vital substrate from which life emerges. Rather than signing PhD after his name\, he signed TNS\, or temporarily not soil\, and encourages us to think of ourselves and all living things as extensions of soil. \nCoco Allred\, Concept and Installation\nOphelia Ariadne Worbes\, Musical Composition \nGallery Opening and Premiere of Trio for Strings\nNov 7\, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM \n\nOphelia Ariadne Worbes\, Composer\nChuowen Liang\, Sound Design\nAlicia Wu\, Violin\nRain Z\, Viola\nNathan Frederiksen\, Hammered Dulcimer
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/extensions-of-soil/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
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SUMMARY:ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:Considering a graduate degree in Art\, Culture\, and Technology? Join us for our Virtual Open House. This is your chance to meet our faculty and students\, familiarize yourself with our program\, and learn how to prepare your application materials. \nJoin us via Zoom on Monday\, November 3 at 7pm ET and/or Wednesday\, November 5 at 9am ET. \nREGISTER HERE! \nApplication Deadline: January  2026\nArtists and cultural producers with diverse backgrounds and innovative transdisciplinary practices are encouraged to apply. Admission is based on a careful examination of the applicant’s artistic and academic record\, including relevant samples of completed work\, a statement of purpose\, and letters of recommendation. Admission to the graduate program is processed by the Department of Architecture and facilitated by MIT’s web-based admission system. Learn more about the online application and portfolio requirements here. \nEach session will include: \n\nApplication\, Curriculum\, Financial Aid + Resources Overview\nACT Production and Fabrication Resources\nQ+A with Current ACT Graduate Students and Alumni\nFaculty Presentations\n\nCheck back soon for more detailed information on presenters! \nThe Master of Science in Art\, Culture\, and Technology at MIT (SMACT degree) is an academic program and hub of critical art practice\, artistic intelligence and discourse within the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. ACT is headed by distinguished artist-professors and supported by a dynamic cast of practitioner graduate students and staff\, visiting artist-lecturers\, affiliates\, and guests. Through an integrated approach to pedagogy\, public event programming\, exhibitions\, and publications\, ACT builds a community of artist-thinkers around the exploration of art’s complex conjunctions with culture and technology. ACT is not an art school in the traditional sense. The program’s mission is to promote leadership in critical artistic practice and deployment\, developing art as a vital means of experimenting with new modes of knowledge\, valuation\, and expression; and to continually question what an artistic research and learning environment can be and do. \nBorn out of the 2009 merger between MIT’s influential Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS\, founded in 1967 by György Kepes) and the Visual Arts Program (VAP\, founded in 1989)\, ACT shares in a rich heritage of work expanding the notion of visual studies and enabling art to enlist science and technology in cultural production\, critique\, and dissemination at the civic scale. \nAs part of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning\, ACT inhabits a vibrant ecosystem of programs\, centers\, and research labs that continue to promote this interplay between science\, technology\, art\, and design. \nIn addition to engaging in transdisciplinary projects with researchers in departments\, labs\, and centers at MIT\, ACT faculty work with scholars and institutions in the US and around the globe including Iceland\, Cuba\, Mexico\, Brazil\, UK\, Finland\, Norway\, Germany\, Bosnia\, China\, and Japan\, bringing external reviewers\, artists\, speakers\, and students to visit and collaborate with ACT students and faculty. The Office of the Arts at MIT extends the opportunities available to students for collaboration and exchange with internationally recognized artists and scholars. \nProfessors: Azra Akšamija\, Judith Barry\, Renée Green\, Gediminas Urbonas\, Nida Sinnokrot \nLecturers: Laura Anderson Barbata\, Hector R. Membreno-Canales\, Tobias Putrih\, Matej Vakula
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/act-graduate-open-house-fall-2025/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T180000
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SUMMARY:Artist Discussion with Every Ocean Hughes
DESCRIPTION:5:00–6:00 PM – MIT List Visual Art Center open\n6:00–7:00 PM – Artist Discussion in ACT Cube \nList Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes features One Big Bag (2021) is a 40-minute single channel video. \nThe video uses the “mobile corpse kit”—a bag filled with everyday objects doulas use to care for the newly dead—as both the visual structure and narrative driver of the video. With a matter-of-fact demeanor and intense physicality the performer guides the viewer into the largely uncharted waters of corpse care — practical\, political and spiritual. The form of the video creates a tension between the subject matter of dying and the forceful liveness of the performance itself.  Exhibiting artist Every Ocean Hughes will be joined by Suelin Chen to discuss the complications and complexities of end-of-life care drawn from themes presented in One Big Bag. \nList Center galleries will be open at 5:00 PM. \nSpeaker Bios \nEvery Ocean Hughes (b. 1977\, lives and works in Stockholm and New York) is a transdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York (2023); Studio Voltaire\, London (2022); Moderna Museet\, Stockholm (2022); Secession\, Vienna (2015); and PARTICIPANT INC.\, New York (2015). Collaboration has been a central part of her practice: She was editor and cofounder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR\, has written lyrics for several bands (The Knife\, Colin Self\, JD Samson & MEN)\, and has done costume design. Hughes’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; Centre national des arts plastiques\, Paris; Moderna Museet\, Stockholm; and Kadist\, Paris/San Francisco\, among others. For over ten years\, Hughes has taught art in Europe and the US and works as a coach for artists and creative producers as West Street Coaching. \nSuelin Chen is an entrepreneur and healthcare executive who was the founder/CEO of the largest website for end-of-life planning in the world (Cake)\, which has been visited by over 100 million people and was recently acquired by the second largest funeral company in the US. She is now doing corporate and commercial strategy for healthcare companies. She earned her BS and PhD from MIT\, where she worked on medical technology and was also a visitor\, intern (and\, later\, an advisory board member) of the List Visual Arts Center. \nThis program is in collaboration with the List Visual Arts Center. \nList Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes features One Big Bag is on view at the List Visual Arts Center through December 14\, 2025. \nPart of the Fall 2025 Lecture Series.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/artist-discussion-with-every-ocean-hughes/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T193000
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SUMMARY:Quantum Healing: When Art\, Tech & Resilience Meet
DESCRIPTION:MIT Open Documentary Lab presents a conversation between Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan and storyteller Sona Tatoyan about their shared mission to heal the world through science and art. \n\nGuided by María Puig de la Bellacasa’s understanding of care as a world-making ethic\, ACT takes up the charge to turn art into durable infrastructures of care. Quantum Healing convenes a scientist and a storyteller to show how art and technology metabolize inherited trauma into shared resilience; for ACT\, care is not sentiment but method – an embodied\, iterative practice for prototyping better worlds across disciplines\, diasporas\, and more-than-human relations. – Gediminas Urbonas \n\nA conversation between Syrian-Armenian-American storyteller and Hakawati founder Sona Tatoyan and Lebanese-Armenian-Canadian-American Entrepreneur and Moderna Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan\, two visionary Armenian diaspora leaders bound by heritage and a shared mission to heal the world: one through art and the other through science. Hear how they turned their genocidal legacies and experience with oppressive regimes into triumphant acts of resilience\, creativity\, and healing. Learn how they innovate and iterate to create groundbreaking work in the arts and sciences. How does storytelling heal societal wounds? Can scientific leaps mirror artistic epiphanies and vice versa? How do their legacies inform their work and mission? What advice do they have for scientists and artists working in today’s climate? They will discuss these questions and more. \nModerated by Professor Lerna Ekmekcioglu. \n📅 Friday\, October 24\, 6 – 7:30 PM \n📍 MIT Museum\, 314 Main Street\, Lee Family Exchange Space\, Cambridge\, MA 02142 \nThis event is generously supported by the MIT Program in Art\, Culture\, and Technology and Radius \nRSVP for the event hereAbou
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/quantum-healing-when-art-tech-resilience-meet/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T193000
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SUMMARY:Julia Scher | A History of Surveillance and Security
DESCRIPTION:For the last forty years\, Julia Scher’s research has explored social control dynamics in the public sphere\, focusing especially on themes of surveillance. The art projects have taken the form of interactive installations\, reformulated surveillance\, site tours\, interventions\, performances\, photography\, writing\, online projects\, linear video\, and sound. \nThis talk offers a personal and critical reflection on the intertwined histories of surveillance and security—fields in which Julia Scher has worked on as an artist. \nSurveillance is often discussed as a technical or political issue\, but it is also deeply emotional\, cultural\, and aesthetic. It shapes how we move\, how we’re seen\, and what we choose to hide. Drawing from historical precedents\, contemporary systems\, and her own artistic practice\, Scher will explore how surveillance has expanded from state control and Cold War paranoia into the intimate\, performative spaces of everyday life. \nToday\, we don’t just experience surveillance—we participate in it as participant/subjects. Many projects today introduce us to the complex negotiation of identity\, access\, and control that is continually evolving\, growing\, and what Scher would characterize as the Ecology of Visibility. \nThis lecture will reference a range of works and artists engaging these questions—many of whom\, like Scher\, use installation\, media\, and performance to engage with themes of vulnerability\, visibility\, and power. We’ll consider how art can reflect and disturb surveillance logics\, from early conceptual gestures to some beginnings of AI-driven environments. The talk is presented as a short piece about systems—architectural\, technical\, social\, psychological— and what societies have tried for the sake of civil peace. \nFollowing the talk\, Scher will be joined by Catherine D’Ignazio as respondent. D’Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity\, particularly as they relate to space and place. \nPart of the Fall 2025 Lecture Series.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/julia-scher-a-history-of-surveillance-and-security/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Coco Allred | Primacy of Shape
DESCRIPTION:Primacy of Shape\nAn exhibition/workshop\nWiesner Gallery (MIT Student Center W20\, second floor) \nSpecial Dates:\nSeptember 16\, 2025 / 5:00–7:00pm / Opening Reception\nSeptember 29\, 2025 / 5:00–7:00pm / Closing Reception \nOn Display:\nSeptember 2–29\, 2025 / Gallery open from 1:00–6:00pm\, Tuesday–Friday\nWiesner Student Art Gallery\, Stratton Student Center\, W20 Room 209\, 84 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA \nIn Primacy of Shape\, Coco Allred (SMACT ’26) transforms the MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery into a printmaking studio and workshop for a growing exhibition of prints\, a video animation\, and a handmade book. Allred looks at shapes as symbols\, inspired by Friedrich Fröbel’s early 20th-century educational geometric toy sets called “Gifts\,” in which the sphere\, cylinder\, and cube symbolize truth\, knowledge\, and beauty. Inspiration is found in organic objects and their ecological sources—found shapes that connect to the natural places they emerge from. \nIncluded in the exhibition are three short films by Allred\, including Recursive Gardens\, an examination of the pedagogical roots of kindergarten and the notion of nurture rather than genius as a predictor of success. The aesthetics of early kindergarten teaching materials became important building blocks of 20th-century art and design in Germany\, as well as a touchstone for Allred’s reflections on shape\, relationship\, nature\, and nurture. Read more about this exhibition. \nFill out the printmaking workshop interest form here! \nAlphabet of Shapes Printmaking Workshops\nNo prior experience is needed; It is free to participate and materials will be provided. \nSunday\, September 7 / 2:00–4:00pm\nWednesday\, September 10 / 4:00–6:00pm\nSaturday\, September 13 / 2:00–4:00pm\nWednesday\, September 17 / 4:00–6:00pm\nSunday\, September 21 / 4:00–6:00pm\nTuesday\, September 23 / 5:00–7:00pm\nSaturday\, September 27 / 2:00–4:00pm
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/coco-allred-primacy-of-shape/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250815T190320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250815T190320Z
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SUMMARY:Arts on the Radar 2025
DESCRIPTION:Get to know the arts at MIT! Explore resources\, events\, workshops\, and connect with fellow MIT art lovers. \nREGISTER TO ATTEND
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/arts-on-the-radar-2025/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251011
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250912T162215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T143448Z
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SUMMARY:screaMachine | Festival Henge
DESCRIPTION:Festival Henge @ MIT Media Lab Fall 2025\nscreaMachine / Gearóid Dolan \nThis is a community participation project that involves\, absorbs\, and reflects the community of artists at and associated with MIT \nFestival Henge is a dynamic\, participatory installation composed of eight freestanding\, translucent hand-made LED video panels arranged in an octagonal formation. Evoking the spatial logic of the artist’s earlier Panoctagon work\, the structure functions as both architectural gesture and digital canvas. Each low-resolution video screen displays imagery visible from both sides\, while also allowing the surrounding environment to be visible between the LED pixels\, inviting viewers into a 360° audiovisual environment with sixteen-channel surround sound. \nOpen Call for Participating DJs and VJs – Sign Up Here!
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/screamachine-festival-henge/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250506T133355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T133355Z
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SUMMARY:Make\, Shift
DESCRIPTION:Make\, Shift is a collective exercise in unfolding explorations. Marking a milestone in seven artists’ movements through distinct material and conceptual explorations\, this exhibition invites viewers to weave through material meditations\, intimate and alien media\, labor-powered fermentation\, soft memorials\, intergenerational pedagogy\, subsonic perception\, and more-than-human ecologies. Spanning sculpture\, photography\, print\, audiovisual installation\, new media\, and performance\, the exhibition nods to the range and scope of inquiries circulating through the ACT studios. \nExhibition Artists:\nCoco Allred (SMACT ’26)\, Sophia Chefalo (SMACT ’26)\, Eliot Z. Felde (SMACT ’26)\, Aram Kavoossi (SMACT ’26)\, Vinzenz Aubry (SMACT ’25)\, Frank (Haotian) Cong (SMACT ’25)\, Haozhen (Joe) Feng (SMACT ’25)\, Luca E. Lum (SMACT ’25) \nExhibition Info:\n+ Opening Reception: May 5\, 5:00–7:00 PM \n+ Gallery Hours: May 5–19\, 9:00 AM–9:00 PM \n+ Location: Wiesner Student Art Gallery\, Stratton Student Center\, 84 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA \nACT Studio Teaching Team:\nProfessors Judith Barry and Nida Sinnokrot\nTAs Zhi-Ray Wang and Lina Bondarenko
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/make-shift/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250510
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250430T202745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T202745Z
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SUMMARY:Haozhen Feng and Zairan Yu | She Swims in Silence
DESCRIPTION:A large net-like installation suspended mid-air echoes with mirrors\, fish-shaped sculptures\, and images of Asian women within the exhibition space. Ghostly fish seem to swim through invisible currents\, repeatedly traversing between reflective surfaces and fragmented stage settings. Using the Chinese folklore tale “Chasing the Fish” as a metaphorical and narrative thread\, Haozhen Feng’s (SMACT ’25) and Zairan Yu’s exhibition integrates archives\, sound\, multi-channel video\, performance\, and virtual reality to intertwine the bodily transformations of Chinese women with myth and history\, questioning the female narrative absence regarding gender and roles within Chinese modernization. \nAs a form and method of working\, the exhibition establishes direct\, slow\, and sensory interactions between mirrors\, the audience’s bodies\, and sound. Guided by Bernard Stiegler’s theory of “History of Representation” and interweaving perspectives from philosophers such as Judith Butler and Nicholas Mirzoeff\, the exhibition questions gendered silences in official histories and emphasizes the tension between national myths and personal memories. This interdisciplinary research-driven exhibition empowers silenced female groups\, demonstrating how artistic practice can serve as an alternative historiography to challenge mainstream narratives and recover marginalized voices.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/haozhen-feng-and-zairan-yu-she-swims-in-silence/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250429T191542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T191852Z
UID:13456-1746198000-1746208800@act.mit.edu
SUMMARY:The World as Ruins: Mizna Futurities Issue Launch Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Mizna Futurities Issue launch and symposium is an invitation to collective speculation on relationalities of people\, land\, futurity\, and catastrophe in the twenty-first century. Taking the form of a symposium\, but abandoning the emphasis on lectures for a multidisciplinary assemblage of performance\, conversation\, and workshopping\, this event will comprise readings\, performances\, artist talks\, discussions\, workshops\, and experiments in collective gathering and speculation. \nThe afternoon will feature poetry readings and conversation with George Abraham\, Dana Alsamsam\, Yi Wei\, and Pinar Banu Yasar; a screening of the short film على حافة البحر/ At the Edge of the Sea by Dena al-Adeeb and Sholeh Asgary; and an artist talk by ACT lecturer Raafat Majzoub (SMACT ’17) in conversation with Barrak Alzaid. \nThis symposium will be a public proposal of other\, possible worlds we may step into\, transforming the space of the ACT Cube into an imaginative space for thinking\, feeling\, and creating our way into an unfolding world\, a futurity unsettled by the catastrophes of the present. \nThis event is organized by Aram Kavoossi (SMACT ’26). \nRegistration is required; the event is free and open to the public.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/the-world-as-ruins-mizna-futurities-issue-launch-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250426
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250416T161814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T194611Z
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SUMMARY:Aram Kavoossi and Luca Lum | stand and watch in the dark 
DESCRIPTION:stand and watch in the dark \nAram Kavoossi and Luca Lum\nApril 18 – 25\, 2025\nOpen 12-6pm on Fridays\, Saturdays\, Sundays\, and Tuesdays. Open 12-7pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Closed on Mondays.\nOpening reception on Friday\, April 18 from 6:30-9pm. \nOpening Night Artist Talk: 7:15–8PM | Elegies in Real Time moderated by Harris Chowdhary \nShadows cut\, processes drone\, effigies sit in and watch the dark. Through moving image\, sound\, installation\, and scenography\, Luca Lum (SMACT ’25) and Aram Kavoossi (SMACT ’26) explore what it means to live in a depleted present\, a present whose material qualities and resources feel pre-determinedly arranged by future projections and the curation of the past\, by tracing what Renée Green describes as the “emotional fullness in locations of perceived absence … shifting remains.” Both artists plumb the respective shadows of their respective sites to harness their elegiac tonalities. For Kavoossi\, this refers to an intimate\, alienated choreography of the Western landscape; for Lum\, this resonates with animacies\, grief\, and loss in anticipatory structures in Singapore and America that arrange how time is felt or relocated. \nIt is within the supposedly impossible and impassable where new contours of life may be found\, albeit in ruinous forms\, seeking address. In this respect\, the artists echo Edouard Glissant’s proposal that “We are told\, and it is true\, that everything is disorganized\, confused\, decrepit\, madness is everywhere\, the blood and the wind. We see it and we live it. But it is the whole world that is speaking to you\, through so many gagged voices.” \nLum and Kavoossi’s moving image pieces will each run after the other. \nLuca Lum (SMACT ’25) is an artist and writer attuned to arrhythmias of time\, memory\, and affect. She considers the technological\, semiotic and informational as material\, relation\, and predicament. \nAram Kavoossi (SMACT ’26) is an artist\, writer\, and editor currently based in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/aram-kavoossi-and-luca-lum-stand-and-watch-in-the-dark/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Student Projects and Initiatives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250331T193613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T163251Z
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SUMMARY:Judith Barry in Conversation with Joan Jonas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between ACT Professor Judith Barry and ACT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas. Among other things\, they will discuss recent and current projects and exhibitions. \nRegistration is required. This event is free and open to the public. \nJoan Jonas (b. 1936\, New York\, NY) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, text\, and sculpture. Jonas’s experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres\, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968\, her practice has explored ways of seeing\, the rhythms of rituals\, and the authority of objects and gestures. Jonas has exhibited and performed extensively around the world. Her notable exhibition history includes Documenta 5\, 6\, 7\, 8\, 11\, and 13; the 28th São Paulo Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and the 13th Shanghai Biennale. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at the United States Pavilion for the 56th Edition of the Venice Biennial; Tate Modern\, London; Museu Serralves\, Porto; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza\, Madrid; Dia Beacon; Haus der Kunst\, Munich; and The Drawing Center\, New York. Most recently\, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted a retrospective of Jonas’s work. Jonas is the recipient of many awards including The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon (2016); the Maya Deren Award given by the American Film Institute (1989); and the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2009). In 2024\, she was presented the Nam June Paik prize\, awarded to artists who have contributed to the development of contemporary art\, mutual understanding\, and world peace; and in 2018\, Jonas was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize\, given to those individuals who have contributed significantly to the scientific\, cultural\, and spiritual betterment of mankind. \nJudith Barry is an artist and writer whose work combines a number of disciplines including installation and project-based research\, architecture/exhibition design\, film/video\, performance art/dance\, sculpture\, photography\, and digital media. \nShe has exhibited internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale\, Venice Biennale(s) of Art/Architecture\, Sharjah Biennial\, Sao Paolo Biennale\, Nagoya Biennale\, Carnegie International\, Whitney Biennale\, Sydney Biennale\, and Documenta\, among others. Her awards include the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2000 and “Best Pavilion” at the Cairo Biennale\, 2001. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. \nPublic Fantasy\, a collection of Barryʼs essays\, was published by the ICA in London (1991). \nOther publications include Projections: mise en abyme (1997)\, the catalogue for The Study for the Mirror and Garden in Granada\, Spain (2003) and Body without Limits\, Salamanca\, Spain (2009). \nHer work is included in the collection of MoMA\, NYC\, Whitney Museum NYC\, Generali Foundation\, Vienna\, MCA\, San Diego\, Pompidou Center\, Paris\, Le Caixa\, Barcelona\, MACBA\, Barcelona\, FNAC\, Paris\, Goetz collection\, Munich\, Frac Lorraine\, Metz\, and CIFO\, Miami among others. A survey of her work traveled in Europe\, most recently at Berardo Museum\, Lisbon\, Portugal in 2010. \nRecent exhibitions include “…cairo stories” (2018) and “Imagination\, dead imagine” (2017)\, Mary Boone Gallery NYC\, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum\, Boston\, (2018) (solo). ”West By Midwest”\, MCA\, Chicago\, “Art in the Age of the Internet”\, ICA Boston and UMMA\, Ann Arbor\, “Unholding”\, Artists Space\, NYC\, “The Voice”\, Coreana Museum\, Seoul\, “Exhibition as Image”\, Ludlow 38\, NYC\, “Down And To The Left”\, Armory Center for the Arts\, Pasadena\, “Electronic Superhighway” MAAT\, Lisbon and Whitechapel\, London\, “Dis-Play/Re-Play”\, Austrian Cultural Forum\, NYC\, and “Putting Rehearsals to the Test”\, VOX Contemporary Image\, Montreal (group) among many others. \nShe has taught and lectured extensively in the USA\, Asia and Europe. Full-time teaching positions include ACT at MIT\, Cambridge (2002-2003)\, the Merz. Akademie\, Stuttgart\, Germany (2003–2005). Currently she is Professor at ACT\, and previously served as Director of the program. \nPart of the Spring 2025 Lecture Series. This event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/judith-barry-in-conversation-with-joan-jonas/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250411T164107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T164132Z
UID:13287-1743984000-1744156799@act.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Layers of Place: MIT Symposium
DESCRIPTION:LAYERS OF PLACE: MIT SYMPOSIUM\nJoin us on April 7 and 8. Register here. \nApril 7: Augmented Reality as Art\, Voice and Resistance\n\nIn conjunction with the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective’s exhibition\, Layers of Place: MIT\, this interdisciplinary panel explores how artists and communities are using augmented reality to reveal the layers of histories\, stories\, and perspectives of place. How does AR make the invisible visible? How can artists and communities present counter-narratives\, and bring the past into dialogue with the present to imagine new futures? What unfolds when digital commentary overlays physical space and how does co-creation shift power in that process? \nFrom the perspective of a curator\, technologist\, community leader\, artist\, and scholar\, we will hear how artists and communities co-create with AR as an artistic medium and a tool of resistance to reclaim narratives of place. How can AR be used to find commonalities between communities\, to bridge divides\, and to see multiple perspectives? How can site-specific work move beyond? What are the limitations of an invisible medium like AR — and how might its discreet nature also open new pathways for resistance and storytelling? \nPanelists: \n\nLeonie Bradbury\, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence\, Emerson College\, moderator\nGediminas Urbonas\, Associate Professor\, Art\, Culture\, and Technology\, MIT\nLori Landay\, Artist\, Layers of Place: MIT – Moving Memory\nMeghna Singh\, Artist\, Layers of Place: MIT – The Fovnders Pillars\nMichael Dawson\, Co-founder and CEO\, Innovators for Purpose\nNicolas Robbe\, CEO\, Hoverlay\n\n\n\n\nApril 8: Layers of Place: A dialogue with the MIT Open Documentary Lab AR and Public Space Artist Collective\nThe MIT Open Documentary Lab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective presents Layers of Place\, a multiyear exploration of how digital augmentation reshapes our understanding of space\, place\, and shared histories. \nThrough Hoverlay\, a location-based mobile AR app\, MIT’s landscape becomes an evolving canvas for urban annotation\, bridging personal\, communal\, and historical experiences and revealing hidden stories and new perspectives. Hear from the artists who created the exhibit about their intent\, process\, and discoveries. What did they learn about digital augmentation as a tool for collective dialogue\, imagination\, and resistance? How do the pluralities of perspectives and layered realities complicate our relationship to place and provoke a new understanding of place and each other? \n\nPanelists: \n\nNadav Assor\, Humble Monuments\nRashin Fahandej\, Humble Monuments\nSahar Sajadieh\, Paper Boat\nLori Landay\, Moving Memory\nMeghna Singh\, The Fovnders Pillars\nDanny Goldfield\, 1 to Infinity: MIT\nHalsey Burgund\, Artist\, Technologist\nSarah Wolozin\, moderator\n\n\nSymposium Schedule \n📅 April 7 \n\n5:00 – 6:00 PM | Exhibit Tour with Artists\n6:00 – 6:30 PM | Reception\n6:30 – 8:00 PM | Augmented Reality as Art\, Voice and Resistance panel\n\n📅  April 8 \n\n5:00 – 6:00 PM | Exhibit Tour with Artists\n6:00 – 6:30 PM | Reception\n6:30 – 8:00 PM | Layers of Place: A dialogue with the MIT Open Documentary Lab AR and Public Space Artist Collective\n\n\n  \nLocation: MIT E15-001 | ACT Cube/Blackbox Theatre
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/layers-of-place-mit-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250208T023447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T021545Z
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SUMMARY:After Dark + Artfinity
DESCRIPTION:A special edition of the MIT Museum’s After Dark offers interactive experiences and community-focused activities that are free and open to the public. \nAfter Dark is a monthly after-hours event created by the MIT Museum. Attendees will enjoy a variety of hands-on making demonstrations\, conversation\, and interactive play accompanied by live music and a pop-up cash bar featuring artisan lite bites by culinary specialists from around the city. \nAs part of the Artfinity festival\, the March edition of After Dark celebrates the artistic and cultural community at the Institute and is free and open to adult members of the public (18+). No registration necessary; admission is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Come explore\, create\, and connect; whether you’re an artist\, a tech enthusiast\, or simply curious\, there’s something here for you. \n\nDon’t miss this expanded celebration of art in all its forms\, including activities available in the MIT Museum throughout the evening: \n\nThe galleries are open\, including two exhibitions of work by MIT faculty: Rania Ghosn’s Cosmograph and Azra Akšamija’s Translations‍\nLive DJ sets\nFood and drink available for purchase\nChallenge traditional ideas of solo artistry by embracing play and co-creating new forms alongside artist and MIT graduate student Coco Allred (SMACT ’26)\nTake a break from your over-optimized day-to-day and join professor Sara Brown for fun and inefficient arts and crafts\n\nThis event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/after-dark-artfinity/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250314
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20250303T203754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T203028Z
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SUMMARY:Azra Aksamija | Telltales of Tide and Terra
DESCRIPTION:Join Azra Aksamija and the MIT Future Heritage Lab team at the MIT Museum for an interactive paper-cutting workshop where you can design textile patterns inspired by plant intelligence.\n\n\n\nTelltales of Tide and Terra is an art-science project that documents plant intelligence through textile patterns\, exploring how plants adapt to environmental challenges. Through creative engagement with scientific observations\, the project translates plant behaviors and adaptation strategies into visual narratives that are screen-printed onto upcycled fabrics dyed with indigo. These textile blueprints form a growing herbarium that captures remarkable plant capabilities—from underground root communication networks to sophisticated water retention mechanisms and heat adaptation strategies. \nJoin the MIT Future Heritage Lab (FHL) team at the MIT Museum for an interactive paper-cutting workshop where you can design textile patterns inspired by plant intelligence. Working with scientific insights about plant adaptation\, participants will transform their insights into intricate paper-cut designs that reflect various plant behaviors and survival mechanisms. These collaborative creations will contribute to a growing textile herbarium as part of FHL’s ‘Telltales of Tide and Terra’ project\, with selected patterns to be screen-printed and featured in traveling exhibitions that share these fascinating stories of plant adaptation with broader audiences. \nAzra Aksamija\, PhD\, is an artist and architectural historian born in Sarajevo\, BA\, and based in Boston\, US. She is a professor in the MIT Department of Architecture\, where she directs the Art\, Culture\, and Technology program and the Future Heritage Lab. \nAksamija is the author of Mosque Manifesto: Propositions for Spaces of Coexistence (2015) and Museum Solidarity Lobby (2019)\, and has edited Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism (2020) and Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp (2021\, coedited with R. Majzoub and M. Philippou). \nHer work has been exhibited at leading international venues\, including the Generali Foundation and Secession in Vienna; biennials in Venice\, Liverpool\, Valencia\, and Manila; Manifesta 7; museums of contemporary art in Zagreb\, Belgrade\, and Ljubljana; Sculpture Center and Queens Museum of Art in New York; Royal Academy of Arts London; and design festivals in Milan\, Istanbul\, Eindhoven\, and Amman. Recent exhibitions include shows at Kunsthaus Graz\, the Aga Khan Museum Toronto\, the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale\, and the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Riyadh\, SA. \nAksamija holds master’s degrees in architecture from Graz University of Technology (2001) and Princeton University (2004)\, and a PhD in history\, theory\, and criticism in architecture from MIT (2011). She received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2013) for her work at the Islamic Cemetery Altach\, Austria; the Art Award of the City of Graz (2018); and an honorary doctorate from Montserrat College of Art (2020). She was awarded the LafargeHolcim Award for the Middle East region (2021) with a commendation in the Global Competition\, and was named an Emerging Voices Winner by the Architectural League of New York (2022). \nThis event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/azra-aksamija-telltales-of-tide-and-terra/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T180000
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SUMMARY:Johan Grimonprez | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
DESCRIPTION:Film screening of Oscar® nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and conversation with filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. \nJazz and decolonization are entwined in Johan Grimonprez’s Oscar® nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. \nIt is 1961\, six months after the admission of sixteen newly independent African countries to the UN\, a political earthquake that shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers to the Global South. As Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe in indignation at the UN’s complicity in the overthrow of Lumumba\, the US State Department swings into action by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. \nFeaturing excerpts from “My Country\, Africa” by Andrée Blouin (narrated by Marie Daulne aka Zap Mama)\, “Congo Inc.” by In Koli Jean Bofane\, “To Katanga and Back” by Conor Cruise O’Brien (narrated by Patrick Cruise O’Brien)\, and audio memoirs by Nikita Khrushchev. \nFollowing the screening\, Johan will be joined by Amah Edoh for a conversation. Amah is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the production of knowledge about Africa\, and on how “African-ness” is produced across West Africa and Western Europe\, both through objects and in bodies. Amah was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at MIT from 2017 to 2022. She has researched and written on Dutch Wax cloth\, a textile designed and manufactured in the Netherlands for West and Central African markets since the early 20th century\, that has since become a highly prized textile in these regions. Her latest publication\, forthcoming in American Anthropologist\, is an autoethnographic exploration of how political and economic upheaval in Togo since the early 1990s impacted the Dutch Wax cloth trade and the Togolese women who\, over the course of decades\, had made the cloth into a significant cultural artifact in the country. \nPart of the Spring 2025 Lecture Series. This event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/johan-grimonprez-soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250309
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SUMMARY:Kevin McLellan | States
DESCRIPTION:Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan’s poem “States\,” projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building. Begins at 7pm on March 7 and March 8. \nKevin McLellan is the author of Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize\, selected by Alexandria Peary)\, in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection\, selected by Timothy Liu)\, Ornitheology\, Tributary\, Round Trip\, and the book objects Hemispheres and [box]\, which reside in several special collections\, including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. His videos have appeared in numerous film festivals\, including the Berlin Short Film Festival\, Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival\, the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival (where “Dick” won Best Short Form Short)\, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. McLellan lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nRyan Aasen (SMACT ’20) is an artist\, researcher\, and educator broadly interested in the politics of media technologies. He was an artist-in-residence at Triangle\, an MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative fellow\, and a Northern Lights.mn Art(ists) on the Verge fellow. His work has been exhibited internationally\, and he has taught art and technology courses at MIT\, Parsons\, and Stevens Institute of Technology. Aasen is based in New York City. \nThis event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/kevin-mclellan-states/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T182130Z
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SUMMARY:Abhijit Banerjee | Jamdaani Weaving
DESCRIPTION:Art Exhibition and Lecture on the history and future of handloom jamdaani weaving by MIT Economist Abhijit Banerjee\, Artist-Illustrator Cheyenne Olivier\, and Woolmark Prizewinning Garment Designer Suket Dhir. The Exhibition will feature artworks in jamdaani including a woven scroll and garments\, and a video on jamdaani weaving. \nThis is the first exhibition of a textile art project that stands at the intersection of two of Banerjee’s long-term interests–the economics of traditional crafts and the visual presentation of economic ideas. Here will be exhibited the first of 5 woven scrolls based on illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier telling Abhijit Banerjee’s version of the story of Jamdaani weaving from the 18th century to the present day\, its encounters with the colonizers (who tried to destroy the industry)\, the forced migration of the weavers and the struggles of the industry to survive in a market economy and globalizing world. The installation confronts the shimmering multi-colored jamdaani scroll with gritty videos of the actual weaving process by Ranu Ghosh and Suket Dhir’s more practical world of designing clothes using motifs from the project. \nAbhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. In 2003\, he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan\, and he remains one of the Lab’s Directors. \nBanerjee is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the Econometric Society. He is a winner of the Infosys Prize and a co-recipient of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel\, awarded for his groundbreaking work in development economics research. \nBanerjee is the author of a large number of articles and six books\, including Poor Economics\, which won the Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year\, Good Economics for Hard Times\, both co-authored with Esther Duflo\, and Cooking to Save Your Life. He is the editor of three more books and has directed two documentary films. \nBanerjee has served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He is a trustee of Save the Children USA\, a trustee of the British Museum\, and the Chair of the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel and the Global Advisory Board for Covid-19 Response of the government of West Bengal. \nCheyenne Olivier is a French illustrator. She graduated from the Estienne Arts and Design School in Paris and the Decorative Arts School in Strasbourg\, where she earned an MFA in Illustration. Her images\, characterized by their geometric and playful nature\, often center around the visual representation of social and environmental issues. Notably\, she collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo on a series of ten picture books addressing poverty. Currently\, she illustrates a monthly column on food and economics alongside Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee for the Times of India. Olivier has been honoured with the Young Talent Award at the International Comics Festival in Angoulême\, as well as the regional Avenir Prize by the French National Crafts Institute. She is currently pursuing a PhD in children’s literature at the University of Tours and the Design School in Orléans. Her connection with India continues to deepen through her collaborations with Indian authors\, artists\, and readers\, along with her active participation in numerous literary festivals and events. \nSuket Dhir graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Design and achieved a successful association with Good Earth. The designer has garnered popularity for playful fabrics and attention to detail. His signature creations harmonise leisure and minimalism. Suket Dhir is known as the man of complexities. A former travel risk analyst\, Sveltlana Dhir is the muse for the brand. \nFollowing their presentation\, they will be joined by Amah Edoh for the conversation. Amah is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the production of knowledge about Africa\, and on how “African-ness” is produced across West Africa and Western Europe\, both through objects and in bodies. Amah was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at MIT from 2017 to 2022. She has researched and written on Dutch Wax cloth\, a textile designed and manufactured in the Netherlands for West and Central African markets since the early 20th century\, that has since become a highly prized textile in these regions. Her latest publication\, forthcoming in American Anthropologist\, is an autoethnographic exploration of how political and economic upheaval in Togo since the early 1990s impacted the Dutch Wax cloth trade and the Togolese women who\, over the course of decades\, had made the cloth into a significant cultural artifact in the country. \nPart of the Spring 2025 Lecture Series. This event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/abhijit-banerjee/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T230000
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SUMMARY:Gearóid Dolan | From Panoctagon to Festival Henge
DESCRIPTION:A pair of temporary site installations connected across space and time by performance\, Panoctagon and Festival Henge investigate the creation of space activated by presence\, structure\, and the artifact of community\, from the voices for social justice to the expression of joy. \nPanoctagon is a temporary forum space dedicated to a decade of protest as documented by the artist in New York City\, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter. \nFestival Henge is a temporary community party space reflecting the club events and DJ parties the artist has been running since the late 1980’s. \nThis event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/gearoid-dolan-from-panoctagon-to-festival-henge/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250322
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
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SUMMARY:Hector Rene Membreno-Canales | Golden Cargo: Conquest of the Tropics
DESCRIPTION:ACT lecturer Hector Rene Membreno-Canales’s Golden Cargo: Conquest of the Tropics examines the complex history of the United Fruit Company (UFC)\, a global banana exporter with deep ties to Greater Boston and MIT. The exhibition draws from several archives\, including MIT’s Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collection\, established in 1921 by the Department of Naval Architecture. Known colloquially as “El Pulpo” (The Octopus)\, the United Fruit Company gained infamy for its far-reaching control over labor\, immigration\, and agriculture throughout Central America. The exhibition pairs original artworks with archival objects\, photographs\, documents\, and ephemera. \n\nHector Membreño-Canales\, born in Honduras to banana plantation workers\, weaves historical and autobiographical narratives while exploring UFC archives. The exhibition creates visual metaphors connecting collective memory with personal history through historical artifacts\, archival materials\, and museum collections. \nA centerpiece of the exhibition is a ship’s bell from MIT’s Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collection\, one of the nation’s oldest marine technology archives. The bell once rang aboard the S.S. Francis R. Hart\, an oil tanker that flew the Honduran flag while serving the United Fruit Company. Hart\, an 1889 MIT graduate\, became president of the United Fruit Company in 1933 and maintained strong ties to Central America. \nThe photo collages in Golden Cargo feature altered and appropriated images from Harvard Business School’s Baker Library archive. This collection encompasses over 75 United Fruit Company albums\, containing more than 5\,200 photographs from 1891 to 1962. The exhibition contextualizes these images with historical papers and books. \nGolden Cargo: Conquest of the Tropics examines the United Fruit Company’s local\, national\, and global impact. By the 1930s\, the corporation had become Central America’s largest employer and private landowner\, controlling 3.5 million acres across Honduras\, Costa Rica\, Guatemala\, Panama\, Colombia\, Cuba\, Jamaica\, and Ecuador. In Guatemala alone\, the company owned roughly 42 percent of the country’s land—surpassing even the Guatemalan government’s holdings. Historians have characterized this period as the United Fruit Company’s attempt to purchase Guatemala. \nJuxtaposing contemporary artworks with archival documents\, the exhibition invites viewers to navigate between studio-created still lifes and institutional archives and artifacts. \nThis event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/hector-rene-membreno-canales-golden-cargo-conquest-of-the-tropics/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250314
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SUMMARY:Vinzenz Aubry | Public Eyes
DESCRIPTION:This generative video installation engages viewers with a circle of animated digital eyes that respond to human presence. As participants approach\, they encounter an unknown entity of digital avatars closely following their movement. A mediated face-to-face encounter with the unknown. Who is really watching who? \n\nIn this generative video installation by Vinzenz Aubry (SMACT ’25)\, viewers are presented with a digital interface which transforms into a meditation on observation and self-awareness. As participants approach\, they encounter an unknown entity of digital avatars looking outwards. They carefully track their movements\, creating an immediate and visceral sense of visual dialogue with the Other. Quite the opposite of surveillance\, this is an invitation to explore the complex dynamics of seeing and being seen. \nThrough public mediation\, drawing on Emmanuel Lévinas’s concept of the Other\, Michel Foucault’s theories of observation and power\, and Ad Reinhardt’s consideration of the Black Square\, the installation examines: Who is really watching who? An eye is not only watching\, but acts as a mirror\, reflecting our physical presence and our internalized patterns of self-observation. \nThe installation plays with what physiologists call “coenesthesia” – our immediate awareness of our own bodies in space and time. As viewers engage with the work\, they become simultaneously spectator and performer\, observer and observed\, creating a dynamic feedback loop that challenges notions of spectatorship. \nThis event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/vinzenz-aubry-public-eyes/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Student Projects and Initiatives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
CREATED:20241109T023122Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Neumann | “The Predictability of Unpredictability*…”
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the MIT List Visual Arts Center\, we invite you for an evening of experimental sound and visual performance\, “The Predictability of Unpredictability*…” by Andrew Neumann. The event is free and open to the public\, though reservation is suggested. \nThis performance\, originally conceived as a small system designed for solo improvisation has for the past year been going through a series of new permutations; sonically\, structurally\, and physically. Employing a Buchla Music System as the main sound source\, this analog synthesizer works in conjunction with a custom designed video switching system controlled by a laptop\, allowing the system to cut and manipulate video cameras and prerecorded images in real time. The notion of “unpredictability” in this scenario is\, one may assume predictably high! \nAbout the Artist \nAndrew Neumann is an American artist who works in a variety of media\, including sculpture\, film\, video installation\, and electronic/interactive music. His work is concerned with developing hybrid systems that integrate sound\, image and text into performative and installation situations. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. He has had one-person shows at bitforms Gallery\, NYC\, the DeCordova Museum\, the Boston Cyberarts Festival. His single channel videos have been shown on PBS\, The Worldwide Video Festival\, Artist Space\, Microscope Gallery\, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, Ucross Foundation\, STEIM\, Harvestworks\, NYC\, and elsewhere. He has had solo music/video performances at numerous venues\, including Experimental Intermedia and Roulette\, both in NYC. \nPart of the Fall 2024 Lecture Series. This event is in conjunction with Steina: Playback.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/andrew-neumann-the-predictability-of-unpredictability/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241207
DTSTAMP:20260403T172047
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SUMMARY:Interrogative Design Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Interrogative Design Symposium is organized as a celebration of the artistic and intellectual legacy of Krzysztof Wodiczko\, ACT’s Professor Emeritus\, with the launch of the book Interrogative Design\, edited by ACT alumnus Ian Wojtowicz (SMACT ’12) and published by the MIT Press.  \nThe Symposium examines the role of art and design in activating the public sphere and enriching public discourse through the production of critical questions. \nThese events are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.\nRegister here. \nThursday\, December 5\n6pm\nBook Launch of Interrogative Design with the MIT Press and the MIT Press Bookstore\nIntroductory remarks by Dean Hashim Sarkis of the MIT School of Architecture + Planning\nBook presentation by the editor\, Ian Wojtowicz (SMACT ’12)\nA keynote conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko\, an audience Q+A\, and a book signing \nFriday\, December 6\n12:30pm\nPanel 1: Body Scale\nFocusing on themes such as Cultural Prosthetics\, Ethics of Technology\, Realism\, and Interrogation. The panel will feature Kelly Dobson (SMVisS ’00)\, Sohin Hwang\, Zenovia Toloudi\, and Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS ’07)\, along with Sara Hendren and Warren Sack serving as moderators. \n2:30pm\nPanel 2: Civic Scale\nFocusing on themes such as Trauma\, Memory\, Monuments\, Public Space\, and Participation. This panel will feature Ian Wojtowicz (SMACT ’12)\, Doris Sommer\, Pelin Tan\, Gediminas Urbonas\, Caroline Jones\, and Malkit Shoshan\, along with Dora Apel and Mark Jarzombek serving as moderators. \n  \nAbout Interrogative Design:\nA timely collection that shows how design can animate public space and catalyze democratic processes through vital discussion and public engagement. \n“Design thinking” emphasizes the production of solutions after a period of research. By contrast\, interrogative design focuses on activating the public sphere and enriching public discourse through the production of questions. A notable contribution to the fields of critical design and media art\, interrogative design traces its development to Krzysztof Wodiczko and his 1990s public art projects\, documented in the book Critical Vehicles. \nIn Interrogative Design\, Ian Wojtowicz showcases this lineage with new writing from Wodiczko and a host of contributions from diverse and influential practitioners\, including Rosalyn Deutsche and Antoni Muntadas. This book highlights the dynamism of interrogative design as it is practiced today. \nNever has the need for work that provokes thoughtful discourse been more necessary\, and this volume catalogs both the need and potential viable techniques. A consolidated collection on the legacy and the vital currency of interrogative design\, this volume will delight practitioners with new material and serve students as a practical handbook. \nContributors also include: Dora Apel\, Dan Borelli\, Harrell Fletcher\, Pete Ho Ching Fung\, Dana Gordon\, Sara Hendren\, Garnet Hertz\, Sohin Hwang\, Ekene Ijeoma\, Marisa Morán Jahn\, Mark Jarzombek\, Jaekyung Jung\, Sung Ho Kim\, Jean-Baptiste Labrune\, Pia Lindman\, Ani Liu\, Andrew Todd Marcus\, Matthew Mazzotta\, Alex Milton\, Max Mollon\, Mariana Morais\, Antoni Muntadas\, Gauri Nagpal\, Maria Niro\, Ginger Nolan\, Robert Ochshorn\, Adam Ostolski\, Sofia Ponte\, Gustavo Romeiro\, Natalia Romik\, Warren Sack\, Kirk Savage\, Nitin Sawhney\, Sanjit Sethi\, Samein Shamsher\, James Shen\, Carl Solander\, Richard Streitmatter-Tran\, Orkan Telhan\, Bruce M. Tharp\, Stephanie M. Tharp\, Zenovia Toloudi\, Marek Wasilewski\, Lani Watson\, Sampson Wong\, and Ben Wood. \nThe Interrogative Design Symposium is partnered with and supported in part by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
URL:http://act.mit.edu/event/interrogative-design-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions
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