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Zhanyi Chen, Artificial Satellite Astrology, 2023. A horoscope of Hurricane Katrina, drew using the positions of meteorological satellites instead of planets. Courtesy of the artist.

Zhanyi Chen’s Artificial Satellite Astrology

August 22, 2023
AcademicsResearch

Christopher Joshua Benton, The Author Cooks a Bean Pie, 2022. Courtesy of Christopher Joshua Benton.

Christopher Joshua Benton in 2023 MIT Thresholds Architectural Journal

May 2, 2023
ResearchPublication

Renée Green. Contact. Installation view, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, moCa Cleveland. Image: © Field Studio

Contact: Arcs of Relation

September 13, 2022
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Renée Green. Space Poem #1, 2007. Installation view, ICA Boston, 2021-2022. Image: Liza Voll

Circulating Circuits

February 17, 2022
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Nida Sinnokrot, Jonah’s Whale, 2014.
Steel, gypsum, Styrofoam, carpet, vinyl, conduit, aluminum, foam, fabric, 1200 × 480 × 240 cm. Photo: Chris Franken.

Office Hours: Nida Sinnokrot for Art & Education

November 23, 2021
ResearchPublication

Aarti Sunder, Kannada Ghost Story

Class of 2021: Aarti Sunder

August 30, 2021
AcademicsResearch

Po-Hao Chi’s “Performative Aramono,” 2020. Presented at Chung Hsing Cultural and Creative Park, Taiwan.

Class of 2021: Po-Hao Chi

August 26, 2021
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Gif from video, shot in Tultepec Mexico. Chucho Ocampo’s “Expect People to be Exhausted,” 2020.

Class of 2021: Chucho Ocampo

August 24, 2021
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Emma Yimeng Zhu, A Pilgrimage to the Bed, 2020.

Class of 2021: Emma Yimeng Zhu 朱艺蒙

August 19, 2021
AcademicsResearch

One of the Ai Weiwei-designed buildings at the Forge Project, where Forge Fellows will work.

Candice Hopkins and the Forge Project in New York’s Hudson Valley

August 16, 2021
ResearchPress

David Robbins, Accrochage

CAVS Fellow David Robbins on The Mysterious Utah Monolith

December 11, 2020
PressResearch

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

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

May 8, 2020
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