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Lecture Series
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
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
Daniel R. Small | Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene
April 8, 2024, 6:00 pm
Bartos Theater
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
Jackson 2bears | Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe
February 12, 2024, 6:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Lecture Series Archive
Sarah Kanouse | My Electric Genealogy
November 16, 2023, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
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
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
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
Jae Rhim Lee | What It’s Really About
April 10, 2023, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
The Cube
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
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
Cooking Sections | When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]
October 17, 2022, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge, 7-429
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
Nida Sinnokrot | Palestine is not a Garden
April 28, 2022, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge 7-429
Jens Hauser | On Microperformativity: Alternative Animated Agencies in Art
April 12, 2022, 5:00 pm
Alia Farid
April 4, 2022, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
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
Art, Science & Climate Crisis Panel
December 6, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
POSTPONED: Sovereignty & Indigenous Curation Panel
November 15, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
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
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
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
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
Cesare Pietroiusti | Economic Principles and Artistic Use of Paradox
December 7, 2020, 2:00 pm
Virtual Event
Ekene Ijeoma | Poetic Justice
November 9, 2020, 6:00 pm
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
Stephen Prina | ¡Stephen Prina Live!
March 2, 2020, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Jill Magid | The Proposal
February 10, 2020, 4:30 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2020 Lecture Series | The Allegorical Resonance of Alchemical Affect
February 10, 2020
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May 4, 2020
Naeem Mohaiemen | A Missing Can of Film
December 2, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
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
Inadelso Cossa | Personal Perspectives on Mozambican History through Film
May 6, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Bartos Theatre
Keller Easterling | Medium Design
April 29, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Beth Stryker | Critical Mapping and Tactical Interventions
April 1, 2019, 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
ACT Cube
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joan Jonas | Reanimation, An Ongoing Performance
December 9, 2013
Tarek Elhaik | The Incurable-Image
November 25, 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
Simin Farkhondeh | Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
April 29, 2013
Nora Alter | Listening to Marker
April 8, 2013
Knut Åsdam | The Long Gaze, The Short Gaze
March 18, 2013
Karim Aïnouz | I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
March 11, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![Exhibition view, NIRIN – the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Artworks in view:
Eric Bridgeman, Rot Bung (Junction), 2019-20. Acrylic on wall, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Frederick McCubbin, A bush burial, 1890. Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 224.5cm. Courtesy of Geelong Gallery.
Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka, Kuini Haati 2 (Two Queen Heart), 2008–10, and Togo mo Bolataane (Tonga and Britain), 2008–10. Oil, clay, daye on tapa cloth. Both 427 x 1115 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
H.R. Balfourm Dendroglyphs of the Kalimangle Bora Ground, 1949. Single channel digital video from 16mm, colour, silent, 53 mins. Courtesy the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Brook Andrew, Powerful Object: Dendroglyph, 2020.3D model printed in clear filament, 109.5 x 49 x 23.5cm. Model made from a dendroglyph tree section, site marker, 19th Century. Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford [1948.12.77].](https://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MCA-install-4-760x570.jpg)
