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Lara Baldi, Poster for event at The Artist’s Sanctum, June 15, 2020.
Lara Baladi | Virtual Event with The Artist’s Sanctum
Event
MIT Grieves with America: Resources
Announcement
Rae Yuping Hsu, OOloI spacesuit, 2020. Slime mold, bacterial cellulose, scuba fabric, and bioplastic. Suit 23 x 52 x 5in; Inflatable 4 x 2.5ft.
Rae Yuping Hsu (SMACT ’20) Wins Second Place Schnitzer Prize
Announcement
Jessica Sarah Rinland, Ý Berá – Aguas de Luz (Bright Waters), 2016. Film still.
Jessica Sarah Rinland (SMACT ’18) to Host Virtual Workshop at Union Docs in NYC
Event
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Karaoke, 2001. Video still.
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas’s Karaoke
Exhibition
Jessica Sarah Rinland, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, 2019. Film still.
Jessica Sarah Rinland (SMACT ’18) Film Screenings May 22-24 at Anthology Film Archives
Event
Ryan Aasen, Letter from MIT President Richard Maclaurin to George Eastman, 1919. Laser print, 11″ x 8.5″.
Class of 2020 | Ryan Aasen
Press
(Re)placing Chernobyl
(Re)Placing Chernobyl | Webinar on Thursday, May 14, 2020
Event
Primer’s ‘itinerant platform’ on the premises of biotech company Aquaporin, located outside Copenhagen
The Future of Artistic Research by Gary Zhexi Zhang (SMACT ’19)
PressPublication
Violist Marcus Thompson and software developer Barry Vercoe, both MIT professors, collaborate on “Synapse for Viola and Computer,” included in the Computer Generations (Composers Recordings Inc., 1978) album, 1976.
OK Computer | ACT Receives Grant to Preserve MIT Experimental Music Studio Recordings
AnnouncementResearch
Judith Barry, Space Invaders
Judith Barry’s Space Invaders: An early example of computer-aided artwork
Press
Pro-test lab Archive posters. Design: NODE Berlin Oslo, 2010.
Urbonas Studio’s Pro-test Lab Archive at The Missing Planet Exhibition
Exhibition
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