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Sky. Pond. Mouth. Book Launch
May 8, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
The whole star is a moving skin
April 27, 2024, 8:00 amMay 5, 2024, 5:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery
Shaping Spatial Constellations
April 16, 2024, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Wiesner Room
Still from Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene (2022), courtesy of Daniel R. Small, © Daniel R. Small
Daniel R. Small | Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene
April 8, 2024, 6:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Sky Art 24 – Symposium & Exhibition
April 5, 2024, 2:00 pm5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Zad Moultaka, Don’t fall / Because who ever fell will fall for good, 2018, multi-channel sound installation, ropes, light,  Niemeyer Dome, Tripoli Lebanon I Walid Rashid (c)
Anissa Touati | Imagining Communities through Architecture: The Mediterranean Sea as a Constellation
March 21, 2024, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge
Kimberly Juanita Brown
Kimberly Juanita Brown | Mortevivum
March 18, 2024, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Astrid Kury. Photo (c) Karin Lernbeiß.
Curator’s Tour | Atmospheres – Art, Climate, and Space Research
March 1, 2024, 1:00 pm2:00 pm
ACT Cube
Installation view, Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe at 2RO MEDIA Festival in Ohsweken in October 2023. Image courtesy of Jackson 2bears Leween.
Jackson 2bears | Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe
February 12, 2024, 6:00 pm
Bartos Theater
A total of 10 video contributions by 17 artists from 9 countries and 11 research statements by 22 scientists from 12 countries were shown, covering atmospheres both on Earth and on other planets. Photo: Universalmuseum JOanneum / J.J. Kucek
Atmospheres – Art, Climate, and Space Research
February 1, 2024, 11:00 amMarch 1, 2024, 2:00 pm
ACT Cube
Undergrad Class Fair for Spring 2024
December 13, 2023, 1:00 pm3:00 pm
Wiesner Room
.zerodotzerozerozerozerozerozerozerozeroone Opening Panel and Exhibition
December 6, 2023, 5:00 pm7:00 pm
MIT.nano Teaching Space
The Biggest Obstacle Film Screening and Conversation with MIT Disabilities ERG
December 5, 2023, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Aubrie R.M. James, “Installation view, Projection Model (2023).” shore/lime/line/light, 2023.
Aubrie R.M. James | shore/lime/line/light
December 1, 2023, 9:00 amJanuary 14, 2024, 6:00 pm
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Matej Vakula, Nowa Huta, 2021.
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Matej Vakula
November 27, 2023, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Sarah Kanouse, “My Electric Genealogy,” still from 80-minute performance-lecture, 2022. Photo credit: Cairo Marques-Nieto.
Sarah Kanouse | My Electric Genealogy
November 16, 2023, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Lupe Fiasco “Precious Things” music video. Video still. Courtesy of Albert Figurt.
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Albert Figurt
November 6, 2023, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
ACT and Material Science printmaking collaboration. Photo: Marissa Friedman.
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2023
November 6, 2023November 8, 2023
Virtual
Iihyaa’ – إحياء  (Revival), 2023. Photo Courtesy: Sama Alshaibi.
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)
Gordon Pask, The Colloquy of Mobiles, 1968, installation view Cybernetic Serendipity, ICA London, © Gordon Pask, Jasia Reichardt, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Margit Rosen | Of Bored Machines and Enthusiastic Humans. Gordon Pask and the Art of Conversation
October 23, 2023, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Light Dance 1989 MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Photo: Noah Riskin
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Seth Riskin
October 23, 2023, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Márton Orosz | György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Science
October 21, 2023, 7:00 pm
Bartos Theater
Images courtesy of Fall 2023 guests.
Fall 2023 Lecture Series
October 21, 2023November 16, 2023
Various
CAVS 55
October 20, 2023October 23, 2023
Various
Rhea Vedro, Horus.
Steel and Metal Leaf.
11″ x 31″ x 50″
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Rhea Vedro
October 2, 2023, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Wiesner Room
Artistic Inquiry Conversation: Joe Davis
September 18, 2023, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Wiesner Room
Artistic Inquiry Luncheon Series Fall 2023
September 18, 2023November 27, 2023
MIT E15
Arts on the Radar 2023
September 8, 2023, 7:00 pm11:00 pm
MIT E15
eros feeding thanatos feeding (eros)
June 27, 2023July 8, 2023
ACT Student Gallery
The Biggest Obstacle | Film Screening and Q+A with Gearóid Dolan 
June 7, 2023, 5:30 pm7:30 pm
Bartos Theater (E15-070)
Counteractions: An ACT Thesis Screening
May 31, 2023, 2:00 pm4:00 pm
MIT Museum
Mrinalini Singha, WhistleBlower, 2023. Exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Mrinalini Singha
Forensic Artifacts of a Democracy in Crisis
May 19, 2023, 5:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery (E15-095)
Valor y Cambio currency, Personas de Peso Puerto Rico (People of Weight, Puerto Rico)
Frances Negrón-Muntaner | Valor y Cambio: Decolonizing Money in Puerto Rico
April 24, 2023, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
The Cube
2023 Max Wasserman Forum: Altered Access | Contemporary Art Forum
April 21, 2023April 22, 2023
The Cube
Image courtesy of Jae Rhim Lee
Jae Rhim Lee | What It’s Really About
April 10, 2023, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
The Cube
Photo form the exhibition opening (image courtesy of Azra Akšamija)
Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble
March 24, 2023, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery
Art of Un-War poster, 2023 (Image courtesy of Maria Niro)
The Art of Un-War | Film Screening and Discussion with Maria Niro and Krzysztof Wodiczko
March 20, 2023, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Bartos Theater
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales | Film Screening and Discussion with Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes
March 6, 2023, 5:30 pm7:30 pm
Bartos Theater
Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip at Mediamatic Amsterdam (Image courtesy of Malkit Shoshan)
Malkit Shoshan | Design Activism: Border Ecologies and the Architecture of UN Missions
March 2, 2023, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
Long Lounge
Image courtesy of Luca Senise
Free Rain
February 17, 2023, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Student Gallery
Symbionts and What is Life? | Dual Book Launch and Discussion with Caroline A. Jones, Stefan Helmreich, and Sophia Roosth
February 16, 2023, 4:00 pm5:00 pm
ACT Cube
“American Dream”, Diego Yanez-Lagun
Pandemic Pondering Exhibition
February 10, 2023March 5, 2023
Keller Gallery
Bread and Puppet Theater, Demons of Society, 2022. 17th Istanbul Biennial (17 September—20 November 2022), performance documentation, Santralistanbul, 14 September 2022. Photo by David Levene.
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 pm7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Po-Hao Chi, Virtual Confinement. Participatory WebVR Experiment, 2020
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2022
October 25, 2022October 27, 2022
Virtual Event
Cooking Sections portrait. Photo Graeme Robertson. Tate Salmon A Red Herring.
Cooking Sections | When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]
October 17, 2022, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge, 7-429
Gearóid Dolan. Image courtesy of the artist.
Artistic Research Conversation | Gearóid Dolan
October 7, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Ekow Eshun | In the Black Fantastic
September 21, 2022, 6:30 pm8:00 pm
Dreyfoos Auditorium
Lundahl & Seitl, Symphony of a Missing Room (2009 – ongoing).
Lundahl & Seitl | A Language of What May Not Be Said
September 19, 2022, 2:00 pm7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Kevin McLellan, Wojnarowicz in Cambridge II. Exhibition poster, 2022.
Wojnarowicz in Cambridge
September 14, 2022October 26, 2022
Rotch Library Gallery
Arts on the Radar, 2015
Arts on the Radar 2022
September 9, 2022, 5:00 pm11:00 pm
MIT Building E15 Lobby
Alejandro Medina, Reconfiguración, 2022. Exhibition view.
Reconfiguración
September 9, 2022, 9:00 amOctober 29, 2022, 9:00 pm
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Un-War Exhibition, 2022. Photo: Emma Yimeng Zhu.
Un-War Exhibition
June 13, 2022October 28, 2022
ACT Corridor
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May 27, 2022October 1, 2022
East Lobby at MIT.nano Building
Here and Elsewhere – ACT Thesis Exhibition 2022 Poster
Here and Elsewhere
May 27, 2022June 30, 2022
ACT Student Gallery
Soma Salon 002 Poster
Soma Salon 002 | Art & Public Sphere: Choreographing the City
May 7, 2022, 4:00 pm7:00 pm
Herter Intercommunity Garden
Nida Sinnokrot | Palestine is not a Garden
April 28, 2022, 6:00 pm
Long Lounge 7-429
Suneil Sanzgiri
Artistic Research Conversation | Fragments & Approximations
April 21, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Eduardo Kac, Hullabaloo. Biotope, 19 × 23 inches as part of the Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries series (2006). Collection Alfredo Herzog da Silva, São Paulo. Photo Luke Batholomew Tan
Jens Hauser | On Microperformativity: Alternative Animated Agencies in Art
April 12, 2022, 5:00 pm
Nolan Oswald Dennis, a garden for fanon (2021)
Artistic Research Conversation | misrecognition
April 7, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Alia Farid, Mezquitas de Puerto Rico, 2021 Wool, plant fibers and natural dyes 250 x 350 cm
Commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA).
Alia Farid
April 4, 2022, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
ACT Cube
El Campo de Cebada, Madrid. Photo: Louis Volont
Artistic Research Conversation | The Notion of ‘Community’ in Activist Urban Praxis: A Theory
April 1, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Terms for Groups of Animals (redacted). Organizing device for Act 1 of OPERA-19, curated by Christine Shaw.
Artistic Research Conversation | GROUP PROBLEMS: Learning to Live Together at Scale
March 31, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp. Edited by Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub and Melina Philippou. MIT Press, 2021.
Artistic Research Conversation | Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp
March 10, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
Adesola Akinleye. Photo: Lisa Gilby
Choreographing the City: Navigations
March 7, 2022, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Azra Aksamija & Future Heritage Lab, Memory Matrix, 2016. Photo: Dietmar Offenhuber.
Spring 2022 Lecture Series | Looking Forward ACT! Intersecting Explorations Across Art-Culture-Technology
March 7, 2022May 9, 2022
Section of “Territorial Map of the World” by Rafi Segal and Yonatan Cohen, 2013, (updated in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea) showing land and water (submerged land) under nations’ sovereignty and power.
Classroom Conversations | Rafi Segal: The Fantastic Realities of Maps
February 16, 2022, 2:00 pm3:00 pm
Image courtesy of ppppress, 2022.
Artistic Research Conversation | Funding, Research, and Collaboration Opportunities with ppppress
February 10, 2022, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
ACT Cube
ppppress exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Spring 2022 Artistic Research Conversations
February 10, 2022April 28, 2022
No Humans in the City, but Weeds – Conversation & Website Launch
January 11, 2022, 8:30 am
Virtual Event
Orkan Telhan, “Ouroboros Steaks,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019. (Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Art, Science & Climate Crisis Panel
December 6, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
ppppress
ppppress Exhibition in Wiesner Gallery
December 6, 2021January 21, 2022
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Dollhouse view of Widener Library Great Reading Room by Matt Cook, the digital scholarship program manager for Harvard Library. Courtesy of Rus Gant
A 39,000-Year History of Virtuality
November 19, 2021, 12:30 pm
ACT Cube
Final Exams, Nida Sinnokrot, Course 4.314:5 | Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research, Spring 2019. Photo by Gary Zhexi Zhang.
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2021
November 16, 2021November 18, 2021
Virtual Event
Brett Graham, Maungārongo ki te Whenua Maungārongo ki te Tangata, Gallery 4, Installation image. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Image: Hayley Bethell.
POSTPONED: Sovereignty & Indigenous Curation Panel
November 15, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Sarah Oppenheimer | fe_20190923: periodic function
November 14, 2021, 12:00 am
Boundary Conditions: Architecture, Simulation, Cinema
November 12, 2021, 12:00 pm7:00 pm
Cameron Rowland
3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2020.
Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Cameron Rowland | Encumbrance
November 8, 2021, 6:00 pm
Morehshin Allahyari, King Uthal from the series Material Speculation: ISIS, 2015, 3D-printed resin with embedded portable data-storage device, 30.5 x 10.2 x 8.9 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Contested History & Performative Preservation Panel
October 25, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Leslie Thornton, Ground, 2020. Video, color, sound, 13 min. Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London / Piraeus.
Leslie Thornton | Begin Again, Again
October 23, 2021, 2:00 pm
Unbounded: Transmedia Poster. Courtesy of the artists
Unbounded: Transmedia Storytelling @ MIT, 2019-2021
October 18, 2021November 23, 2021
Lina Lapelytė, Pirouette, Opening Roots to routes, Photo by Aurélien Meimaris, courtesy of Routes to roots, Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020
Lina Lapelytė | Vibrations
September 27, 2021, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Sanford Biggers | Oracular
September 16, 2021, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Lina Lapelytė, What-happens with a dead fish? 2021. Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels. Courtesy of the artist
Fall 2021 Lecture Series | Looking Forward ACT! Intersecting Explorations Across Art-Culture-Technology
September 16, 2021December 6, 2021
Po-Hao Chi, Plantfluencer Gazing (2021)
Stranger Senses Screening | Ars Electronica Festival 2021 Garden Program
September 10, 2021, 6:00 pm7:00 pm
Bartos Theatre (e15-070)
Cao Fei , Whose Utopia, 2006.
Single channel video, 5:4, colour with sound, 20min 20sec. Courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers
Cao Fei | Narrative Labyrinth – From Reality to Illusion, From Fantasy to Reality
May 3, 2021, 9:00 am11:00 am
Virtual Event
Azra Aksamija, Sanctuary.
Azra Akšamija | Future Heritage
April 22, 2021
Virtual Event
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].
Brook Andrew, Mario Caro, Candice Hopkins, and Miguel López | Indigenous Curation
April 12, 2021
April 6 | Working While Black | Tanya Wallace-Gobern and Thomas Shapiro
April 6, 2021
Transmedia Storytelling Initiative | 3D/5G: Surveillance and Agency
March 31, 2021, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
March 30 | Driving While Black | Frank Baumgartner and Gretchen Sorin
March 30, 2021, 1:00 pm2:30 pm
March 16 | Voting While Black | Darryl Pinckney and Nsé Ufot
March 16, 2021, 1:00 pm2:30 pm
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Once Removed (2019). Production still.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Natq (impossible speech)
March 15, 2021
Virtual Event
Azra Aksamija & Future Heritage Lab, Memory Matrix, 2016. Photo: Dietmar Offenhuber.
Spring 2021 Lecture Series | The Incidence of Fingerprints When Earth Meets the Sky
March 15, 2021
March 2 | Learning While Black | Anthony Abraham Jack and Stefan Lallinger
March 2, 2021
L-R: Garrett Bradley and John Akomfrah
Black Progress | Garrett Bradley and John Akomfrah
February 23, 2021, 1:00 pm2:30 pm
Virtual Event
Ekene Ijeoma, Deconstructed Anthems, Day Night. Photo: Katrina Barber.
Spring 2021 | Black Mobility and Safety in the US Lecture Series
February 23, 2021May 17, 2021
Virtual Event
Cesare Pietroiusti, Money-Watching, 2007. Performance. Photo: Chris Keenan. Courtesy: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and the artist.
Cesare Pietroiusti | Economic Principles and Artistic Use of Paradox
December 7, 2020, 2:00 pm
Virtual Event
Dr. John Bingham-Hall
John Bingham-Hall | Choreographing the City: Morning Conversations
November 16, 2020, 11:30 am
Virtual Event
Ekene Ijeoma. Photo by Kris Graves.
Ekene Ijeoma | Poetic Justice
November 9, 2020, 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
Professor Hufanga Dr. ‘Okusitino Mahina
Professor Hufanga Dr. ‘Okusitino Mahina | Choreographing the City
November 2, 2020, 5:30 pm
Virtual Event
Choreographing the City
Arianna Mazzeo | Choreographing the City: Morning Conversations
November 2, 2020, 11:00 am
Virtual Event
Rachel Rossin, Stalking the Trace. 2019. VR installation. The Zabludowicz Collection. Photo: Courtesy the artist.
Barbara London | What’s Technology Got To Do With It?
October 26, 2020, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
Virtual Event
Ekene Ijeoma, Deconstructed Anthems, Day Night. Photo: Theo Civitello.
Fall 2020 Lecture Series | The Allegorical Resonance of Alchemical Affect
October 26, 2020December 7, 2020
‘Data Magic and Democracy: Privacy, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling’
‘Data Magic and Democracy: Privacy, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling’
October 19, 2020, 5:30 pm
Virtual Event
Derek Hoffend, Sonotron, April 2012 – April 2013.
Derek Hoffend on Video Installation
October 14, 2020, 2:00 pm
Black Mobility and Safety in the US, Fall 2020
Fall 2020 | Black Mobility and Safety in the US Lecture Series
September 8, 2020November 17, 2020
Virtual Event
Who Feels at Home in the Visible World?
September 5, 2020
Virtual Exhibition
Arts on the Radar
Arts on the Radar 2020
September 3, 2020September 5, 2020
Virtual Event
Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Five Elizabeths and Lovely Guns of Glacial Shifting. Film stills.
Jasmine Dreame Wagner | Artists and Archives
April 7, 2020, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Studio Seminar in Art & the Public Sphere: Swamp Observatory
Stefanie Hessler | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
March 30, 2020, 11:00 am
E15-001
Robert Dell | Artists and Archives
Robert Dell | Artists and Archives
March 10, 2020, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Five Elizabeths and Lovely Guns of Glacial Shifting. Film stills.
Spring 2020 | Artists and Archives Series
March 10, 2020
ACT Cube
Carlos Garaicoa | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
Carlos Garaicoa | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
March 9, 2020, 11:00 am
E15-001
Brian Mayton | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
Brian Mayton | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
March 4, 2020, 11:00 am
E15-001
Stephen Prina, English For Foreigners, exhibition view, Museo Madre, Naples, May 15 – Oct 16, 2017.
Stephen Prina | ¡Stephen Prina Live!
March 2, 2020, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Nicole L’Huillier. Photo: Ally Schmaling
Nicole L’Huillier | Artistic Research Luncheon
February 27, 2020, 12:30 pm
E15-207
Jill Magid, ​The Proposal​, 2018. Feature documentary, 83 minutes. Courtesy the artist, Field of Vision, and Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Jill Magid | The Proposal
February 10, 2020, 4:30 pm
ACT Cube
Dora García
Dora García | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere
February 10, 2020, 11:30 am
E15-001
Searchlight Piece, 1975
Photograph of CAVS Fellow Lowry Burgess’ “Searchlight Piece.” Photograph: unknown. Courtesy of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies Archive.
Spring 2020 Lecture Series | The Allegorical Resonance of Alchemical Affect
February 10, 2020May 4, 2020
MIT Nuclear Reactor, Cambridge, MA
The MIT Nuclear Reactor | Artistic Research Luncheon
February 4, 2020, 12:30 pm
E15-207
Nicole L’Huillier, Hybrid Radio. Photo: Nicole L’Huillier’Huillier
Artistic Luncheon Series | Spring 2020
February 4, 2020April 14, 2020
ACT Cube
Alexandra Arènes – Giving Depth to the Surface – an Exercise in the Gaia-graphy of Critical Zones* in the Anthropoecene Review 2018.
Martin Guinard | Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics
December 5, 2019, 12:30 pm
E15-207
Naeem Mohaiemen, other people’s storage, 2019.
Naeem Mohaiemen | A Missing Can of Film
December 2, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Hemispheres, 2019 by Kevin McLellan
Kevin McLellan | Hemispheres Book Launch
November 21, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Raitis Smits – Digital Art and Archiving in the 21st Century
November 15, 2019, 12:30 pm2:00 pm
deRoth Room
Eric Begleiter, CAVS Student 1982 – 1984, CAVS Fellow 1984 – 1985
Diffractions: Holography at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
November 12, 2019November 29, 2019
E15-223
On the Record: Broadcasting Workshop with ACT and NODE Berlin/Oslo and Bengler. Photo: Irina Chernyakova.
ACT Graduate Open House Fall 2019
November 8, 2019, 11:30 am
Wiesner Building (E15)
Joe Davis | BioArt
Joe Davis | BioArt
October 31, 2019, 2:30 pm
ACT Cube
 Gyorgy Kepes, simulated light architecture for Boston Harbor, 1966. Photo: Nishan Bichajian, 1966. Courtesy Center for Advanced Visual Studies Special Collection, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. © Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Military-Industrial-Aesthetic Complex: György Kepes at MIT
October 10, 2019, 2:30 pm
E15-207
Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas | Wet Ontologies of the Swamp
October 7, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Sarah Oppenheimer, Bild 135, 2017.
Sarah Oppenheimer | FE_20190923: Periodic Function
September 23, 2019, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Sarah Oppenheimer, Bild 135, 2017.
Fall 2019 Lecture Series: The Inexplicable Wonder of Precipitous Events
September 23, 2019December 2, 2019
ACT Cube
 Futurity Island Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas in collaboration with Indrė Umbrasaitė, Nicole L’Huillier, Tobias Putrih, Futurity Island, 2018. Commissioned by Blackwood Gallery for The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea. PVC pipe, sonification of the soil pollution data, Hydropsyche’s sound. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy Blackwood Gallery.
Futurity Island: Amphibian Pedagogies and Submerged Perspectives
September 6, 2019September 7, 2019
ACT Cube
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Joan Jonas | Sources and Methods
September 5, 2019June 1, 2021
ACT Gallery
Sakiya: Between the Qaiqab and the Ballut opening. Photo: Gary Zhexi Zhang
Sakiya | Between the Qaiqab and the Ballut
August 2, 2019August 3, 2019
Ein Qiniya, Ramallah
Zach Jama, Xasuuqii Means Massacre, 2019. Film still.
Mutual Pictures #8
June 9, 2019, 7:00 pm
Bartos Theatre
2019 SA+P Thesis Show
2019 SA+P Thesis Show
June 6, 2019September 27, 2019
Gallery 9
After Powhatan’s Robe, Courtesy of Erin Genia.
2019 Schnitzer Prize Exhibition
June 5, 2019, 12:00 pm
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Demian DinéYazhi´
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series | Demian DinéYazhi´(Diné)
May 23, 2019, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Ringo Runzhou Ye, Behind the Screen, 2019.
Put That There | ACT Studio Exhibition
May 21, 2019May 29, 2019
MIT Building 41
Inadelso Cossa, A Memory in Three Acts, 2016. Film still.
Inadelso Cossa | Personal Perspectives on Mozambican History through Film
May 6, 2019, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
Bartos Theatre
Inadelso Cossa, A Memory in Three Acts, 2016. Film still.
Film Screening: A Memory in Three Acts + The Dead Tell No Tales
May 6, 2019, 4:00 pm
Bartos Theatre
Dubai’s Internet City, Creative Commons
Keller Easterling | Medium Design
April 29, 2019, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Screenshot of Skawennati’s Website.
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series | Skawennati
April 18, 2019, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Haidee Wasson – Poster and Illustration by Mauricio Cordero.
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Haidee Wasson
April 17, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
Materials from the CAVS collection
Archiving the Intersection of Art and Technology
April 17, 2019April 26, 2019
ACT Archive
DIS Collective (Lauren Boyle) – Poster and Illustration by Mauricio Cordero.
New Media and Civic Arts Series: DIS Collective (Lauren Boyle)
April 10, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
Cairo Downtown Passages Iftar in Kodak Passageway. Image courtesy of CLUSTER.
Beth Stryker | Critical Mapping and Tactical Interventions
April 1, 2019, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Jaroslav Svelch – Poster and Illustration by Mauricio Cordero.
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Jaroslav Švelch
March 20, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi
March 6, 2019, 5:00 pm
MIT Building 4
Clockwise from top left: Lara Baladi, Sung Hwan Kim, Matthew Mazzotta, Gloria Sutton
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Spring 2019
March 5, 2019May 9, 2019
deRoth Room
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series | Elizabeth James Perry
February 20, 2019, 6:00 pm7:00 pm
Bartos Theater
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Caren Kaplan
February 20, 2019, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Pashpeshau: Rising Multiplicities – Indigenous Artists Speaker Series
February 20, 2019May 23, 2019
New Media and Civic Arts Series – Spring 2019
February 20, 2019April 17, 2019
Franco Mattes | People Disguised as Algorithms
February 11, 2019, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2019 Lecture Series | The Digital Hum of the Long, Slow Now
February 11, 2019May 6, 2019
February School 2019
February 6, 2019March 8, 2019
Wiesner Gallery (W20-209)
Rachel Harrison, Sculpture with Boots, 2017 Wood, polystyrene, chicken wire, cardboard, burlap, cement, acrylic, steel, and framed pigmented inkjet print 93 x 60 x 46 inches (236.2 x 152.4 x 116.8 cm) Courtesy the artist.
David Joselit | Untranslatable: Conceptual Art since the 90s
December 10, 2018, 6:00 pm
ACT Cube
Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word II, 2015 Photo: Moira Ricci. Image courtesy of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Joan Jonas and Sung Hwan Kim | In Conversation
December 3, 2018, 6:00 pm
Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium
Myron Dewey – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero.
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
November 19, 2018, 5:00 pm7:00 pm
ACT Cube (e15-001)
 Raitis Smits: Digital Art and Archiving in the 21st Century
Raitis Smits | Digital Art and Archiving in the 21st Century
November 15, 2018, 12:30 pm
E15-283a
Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock, film poster.
Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
November 14, 2018, 7:00 pm
Building 32-155
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman.
Richard Sennett | The Good Craftsman
November 13, 2018, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Fall 2018 Lecture Series: Vibrant Signs and Indeterminant Matter(s)
November 13, 2018December 10, 2018
Marisa Morán Jahn – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
October 18, 2018, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Daniel Bacchieri – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero.
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
October 4, 2018, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Erik Loyer – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero.
New Media and Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
September 13, 2018, 5:00 pm
ACT Cube
New Media and Civic Arts Series – Fall 2018
New Media and Civic Arts Series – Fall 2018
September 13, 2018November 15, 2018
ACT Cube
Arts on the Radar 2018
September 7, 2018, 7:00 pm
Wiesner Building
The Headquarters of the Swamp School, The Swamp Pavilion, Venice, 2018. Photo: Norbert Tukaj
The Swamp Pavilion: Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale
May 26, 2018November 25, 2018
Venice Architecture Biennale
Book Launch for Kevin McLellan’s Ornitheology and Short Films by Jessica Sarah Rinland
May 4, 2018
ACT Cube
asa Smite and Raitis Smits. Talk to Me, 2016. The exhibition in the National Library of Latvia. Photo by Kristine Madjare.
Rasa Smite | Renewable Futures
May 3, 2018, 12:30 pm
deRoth Room
In Our Present Condition…, SA+P Dean’s Gallery, 2017.
In Our Present Condition…
May 1, 2018July 15, 2018
SA+P Dean's Office Gallery
Creating Indigenous Futures
Creating Indigenous Futures
April 28, 2018, 11:45 am
ACT Cube
Zooetics+ Symposium poster
Zooetics+ Symposium
April 27, 2018April 28, 2018
MIT Building E15
Judith Barry | For when all that was read was…so as not to be unknown
April 27, 2018April 30, 2018
Wiesner Room, E15-207
Joe Paradiso, Resynthesizer
Joe Paradiso | Resynthesizer
April 27, 2018May 31, 2018
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Marisa Morán Jahn | CareForce One Travelogues
April 25, 2018
ACT Cube
Honor Harger | Sounds in Space: Revealing the Invisible Universe
March 8, 2018
ACT Cube
Xu Bing | Dragonfly Eyes
March 7, 2018
Bartos Theatre
Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Martins Ratniks. RT-32. Acoustic Space Lab. DVD, Produced by RIXC, 2012. Screenshot from video.
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Spring 2018
February 13, 2018May 8, 2018
deRoth Room
February School
The February School
February 7, 2018February 28, 2018
Wiesner Gallery
Antenna at Dutch Design Week
December 13, 2017
Dutch Design Week
Judith Barry/Ken Saylor/Project Projects. From Receiver to Remote…Channeling Spain, 2010.
Judith Barry | A Discussion of Several Research-Based Projects
December 4, 2017, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Repellent Fence, 2015 Photo: Michael Lundgren and Postcommodity; Image: Courtesy of Bockley Gallery Installation view. Douglas, AZ, USA and Agua Prieta, SON, MEX.
Postcommodity | The Repellent Fence and Beyond
November 13, 2017, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Stampa Programmata
A0 screenprint, Dexter Sinister, 2017.
David Reinfurt | A Post-Industrial Postscript
October 20, 2017, 2:00 pm5:00 pm
ACT Cube
Polygraph, 2011, Noam Toran, Photo: Raphaelle Mueller.
Cristina Ricupero | Don’t Believe A Word I Say
September 25, 2017, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Hinrich Sachs, Robotdoll Sobbing, 2013. Photo credit and copyright: Hinrich Sachs
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Fall 2017
September 20, 2017October 16, 2017
Wiesner Room, E15-207
Lake Tenaya
Maximally Stable Extremal Regions; Hough Transform 2016 dye sublimation print 48×60 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Trevor Paglen | The Planet is a Sensor
September 11, 2017, 7:00 pm9:00 pm
ACT Cube
Fall 2017 Lecture Series | The Edge of Knowing and Un-Knowing
September 11, 2017December 4, 2017
Public Space? Lost and Found Publication + Launches
May 4, 2017May 11, 2017
New York City + Venice
Cynthia Madansky | 1+8
Cynthia Madansky | 1+8
April 25, 2017, 7:00 pm
Bartos Theatre
Pedro Reyes, Floating Pyramid, 2004 (Image courtesy of the artist).
Pedro Reyes | Art as Conflict Resolution
April 24, 2017, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Angel Chen and Sarah Jessica Rinland win 2017 Schnitzer Prizes, Yusef Audeh Wins Travel Grant
April 3, 2017
Tania Bruguera, General Strike, 2010, Participative Mural painting, Demystified church, water painting, paintbrushes, scaffolding, Dimensions: 82’4
Tania Bruguera | Can Aesthetics Disarm Oppression?
March 13, 2017, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Cube
ICA Boston 1, Matthew Ritchie. Remanance: Remonstrance. ICA, Boston. Photo: Anubis Abyss
Matthew Ritchie | Demon in the Diagram
February 22, 2017, 11:30 am
E15-207
FFR 2016, Tony Cokes. The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 2016. The 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Photo: 31pictures.nl / (c) 2016, www.31pictures.nl
Artistic Research Luncheon Series | Spring 2017
February 22, 2017May 1, 2017
E15-207
Jill Magid, Rhinestoning Headquarters. System Azure Public performance and permanent installation. Rhinestone encrusted surveillance cameras, posters. Police Headquarters, Amsterdam. 2002
Jill Magid | Permission as Material
February 13, 2017, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
ACT Cube
Spring 2017 Lecture Series | Double Agents
February 13, 2017April 24, 2017
Chus Martinez
Chus Martinez | The Duck is the Übermensch
December 5, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Gerald Raunig | Dividuum
November 7, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Marta Kuzma | [BRECHT]IT: EXIT STAGE LEFT
October 31, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Tobias Putrih | Slight Agitation 1/4
October 20, 2016January 22, 2017
Fondazione Prada
Urbonas Studio | Future Fictions Summit: Iceland
October 13, 2016October 22, 2016
Reykjavík Art Museum
Cristina Ricupero | Secret Societies and the Limits of Transparency
October 5, 2016October 7, 2016
Etienne Turpin | Computation Rules Everything Around Me
October 3, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Azra Akšamija | Fitch Colloquium: Preservation and War
September 30, 2016
Columbia
Florian Schneider | Imaginary Property
September 26, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Fall 2016 Lecture Series | Tinker User Tracer Human
September 26, 2016December 5, 2016
Cinematic Migrations at Fondazione Antonio Ratti (far)
July 1, 2016July 23, 2016
Fondazione Antonio Ratti (far)
Druzhba Image Credit: Urbonas Studio
Urbonas Studio | The Druzhba Project
May 27, 2016November 27, 2016
Venice Architecture Biennale
Don’t/Erase/Till/Monday
May 5, 2016, 7:00 pm
Carpenter Center
Lars Bang Larsen | Mediated Entities
May 2, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Corinne Diserens | Historical Resonances
April 25, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Azra Akšamija | The Memory Matrix
April 23, 2016May 7, 2016
Wiesner Building
Ron Martin | Infinite Footsteps
April 20, 2016April 23, 2016
Building 37
Ina Blom | Rethinking/Collective/Memory/In the Age of Digital Archives
April 15, 2016
Still from LOOKING for ALFRED, 2005, by Johan Grimonprez Courtesy of Zapomatik / Film & Video Umbrella
Johan Grimonprez | Every Day Words Disappear / On Radical Ecology and Tender Gardening
April 13, 2016, 6:00 pm
Lara Baladi
Technology/Affect/Space: Workshop with Eric Kluitenberg
April 6, 2016
ACT Cube
Anna-Sophie Springer | Curatorial-Editorial Urgencies/ A Palimpsest of Species and Spaces
March 28, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Future Island: Cuba
March 7, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev | Empathy and Artistic Relations
February 29, 2016, 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Spring 2016 Lecture Series | Curation: Agencies + Urgencies
February 29, 2016May 2, 2016
Labor in Contemporary Art, Precarious labor workshop in Gezi Park, June 2013. Photo. Courtesy of Pelin Tan.
Pelin Tan | Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear
November 16, 2015
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014
HD video, Dutch and English language, English subtitles, 55 min. Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh | Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
November 9, 2015
Making the Fundament for the Platform. Marjetica Potrč. Photo by Rados Vujaklija.
Marjetica Potrč | Public Space is a Social Agreement
October 26, 2015
Björn Sparrman, Theater Piece No.1×50. ICA Boston, Oct 21, 2015.
PAW | 10 Actions at ICA Boston
October 21, 2015December 3, 2015
ICA Boston
Rosa Barba, Bending to Earth, 2015. 35-mm film, color, optical sound, 15 min. Film still copyright Rosa Barba.
Rosa Barba | On Objects as Ideas
October 19, 2015
Video Still, Avalon. 2011. Maryam Jafri.
Maryam Jafri | Between Storyboard and Grid, Some Recent Works
October 5, 2015, 7:00 pm9:00 pm
Fall 2015 Lecture Series | Toward a Philosophy of the Act
October 5, 2015November 16, 2015
Exhibition views of, the center in print: tracing the history of CAVS events and exhibitions through its poster art. Rotch Library, 2015. Photo Installation View Laura Anca Chichisan.
The Center in Print | CAVS Poster Exhibition
June 18, 2015August 18, 2015
Rotch Library
it could be an algorithm: karada/sex/watch/repeat/archive/chewing/clues/translation
it could be an algorithm: karada/sex/watch/repeat/archive/chewing/clues/translation
May 16, 2015May 18, 2015
Wiesner Building
Claire Pentecost. Image: courtesy of the artist.
Claire Pentecost | The Quick and the Dirty
April 13, 2015
Rikke Luther
“Pod no.002, Parasiting Compost Unit”, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2011 and on-going at the harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark. Image courtesy Learning Site, Rikke Luther.
Rikke Luther | Public Place in its Meltdown Area
April 6, 2015
“are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” Image: copyright Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol.
Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol | Proposition for Reclaiming a Space
March 16, 2015
atelier d’architecture autogérée
“Passage 56”, Paris 2009. Copyright aaa.
Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou | Co-producing the City
March 9, 2015
Jeanne van Heeswijk, “Wastelanders, Ocupation of Transformation”, Anderlecht, Brussel, (2011), photo Marcel van der Meijs.
Jeanne van Heeswijk | Fields of Interactions
March 4, 2015
Doris Sommer, The Work of Art in the World.
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
Gustav Metzger, Supportive, 1966-2011. 7 Kodak SAV 2050 slide projectors with control units, rotating polarised filters, liquid crystals, 7 screens 4m x 4m
Daniela Pérez and Patrick Charpenel | Gustav Metzger’s Dome(s) Project
December 8, 2014
Gabriel Kahan | Regenarratives
November 24, 2014
Neil Leonard | Sound Installation and Concert
November 19, 2014, 8:00 pm
Wiesner Building
Tulip Pattern’s Petals for U’s I + I. Photo credit: Andrew Strauss.
Kelly Nipper | Tessa Pattern Takes a Picture
November 17, 2014
Islamischer Friedhof, Vorarlberg
Islamic cemetery in Altach, Austria designed by local architect Bernardo Bader. It is the first Islamic cemetery in the region of Vorarlberg, and the second of its kind of Austria.
Homecoming after Death: An Islamic Cemetery in Austria
October 20, 2014
Photo by Ian Soroka, Photomontage by Kuba Rudzinski
CULTURUNNERS | CULTURUNNERS@MIT
October 6, 2014
MIT Installation produced as part of the Culturunners project
CULTURUNNERS
October 1, 2014October 6, 2014
Wiesner Building
ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE
Photo: Matthew Biederman
Marko Peljhan | Dronological: The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems
September 22, 2014
Fall 2014 Lecture Series
September 22, 2014December 8, 2014
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
Elvan Zabunyan | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Translations of Memory
April 28, 2014
Public Space? Lost & Found
April 18, 2014
Yvonne Rainer, Assisted Living: Do you have any money?, 2013.
Photo by Ian Douglas.
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, dir. The Last Angel of History, 1995
Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6, 2014March 7, 2014
ACT Cube
John Akomfrah, OBE, and Lina Gopaul
John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul | Transfigured Night
March 3, 2014
Spring 2014 Lecture Series | Cinematic Migrations
March 3, 2014April 28, 2014
Scanner/Vitiello
February 10, 2014, 7:00 pm
ACT Cube
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante.
Joan Jonas | Reanimation, An Ongoing Performance
December 9, 2013
Kunsthaus Graz (P. Cook + C. Fournier, 2003), Austria, participating in the global Museum Solidarity Day organized by Aksamija, March 2013. Photo: J.J. Kucek / Kunsthaus Graz, UMJ
Azra Akšamija | Solidarity Works: Politics of Cultural Memory
December 5, 2013March 21, 2014
Ryan Kuo, Party, 2013
Ryan Kuo | Party
November 25, 2013January 10, 2014
Venus Window
Detail of a police patrol car in Mexico City. Courtesy of Laboratorio 060, Mexico City.
Tarek Elhaik | The Incurable-Image
November 25, 2013
Florian Hecker: Chimerizations — Book Signing
November 13, 2013
The Nine Muses, 2011. Directed by John Akomfrah.
John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul
November 4, 2013
Matthew Mazotta Open House
Matthew Mazzotta: Open House
October 22, 2013
Lovett/Codagnone, Silenced, 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, 2013December 9, 2013
Azra Aksamija | Wearable Mosques
August 2, 2013October 1, 2013
Resonating MIT
May 13, 2013May 17, 2013
Guerino Mazzola & Reza Negarestani | Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation
May 9, 2013
Luke Fowler | Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation
May 1, 2013
Simin Farkhondeh | Bestow Media Literacy, Expose, Inspire Change
April 29, 2013
Keith Fullerton Whitman | Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation
April 22, 2013
Nora Alter | Listening to Marker
April 8, 2013
Knut Åsdam | The Long Gaze, The Short Gaze
March 18, 2013
Gediminas Urbonas and KARAOKE at Transmediale 2013
March 12, 2013
Karim Ainouz, I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You. Film still.
Karim Aïnouz | I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You
March 11, 2013
Cinematic Migrations | Seminars with John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul
March 4, 2013March 5, 2013
John Akomfrah, OBE, and Lina Gopaul
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, 2013April 29, 2013
Tadej Pogačar | P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
Tadej Pogačar | P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
December 10, 2012, 5:30 pm
Media Lab
Krista Lynes | Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village 
November 26, 2012
Ros Gray | The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography 
November 19, 2012
Chip Lord | Recent Projects: Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule] and To & From LAX
November 5, 2012
Handworth Songs, 1987. Directed by John Akomfrah.
John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul | Reconsidering Handsworth Songs
October 30, 2012
Dam Construction Site. Part of Weeping Sikkim, by Jesal Kapadia, 2011-12. Photo by Hari Adivarekar.
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, 2012November 26, 2012
I travel because I have to, I come back because I love you, 35mm, color, 75 min. Dir. Karim Aïnouz
Cinematic Migrations
September 1, 2012May 1, 2014
Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams book cover
Renée Green | Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams
May 3, 2012
ACT Cube
Michael Eng | Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
April 9, 2012
Muntdas, On Translation: El Aplauso, Bogota, 1990
Muntadas | Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
April 9, 2012
Boston Urban Gardens, 1972-77, Boston, MA. Image courtesy of Julie Kepes Stone.
Sylvère Lotringer | Topology of Autonomy
April 6, 2012, 1:30 pm
ACT Cube
Gloria Sutton | Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
April 2, 2012
Sofia Rebeca Berinstein: The завхан (Zavkhan) Abstract
March 12, 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, 2012April 23, 2012
Disobedience: An Ongoing Video Archive. Photo by John Kennard.
Disobedience Archive
December 9, 2011, 12:00 amApril 15, 2012, 12:00 am
Media Lab
Gyorgy Kepes
Celebrating CAVS
December 8, 2011
MIT Wiesner Building (E15)
Amar Kanwar
November 21, 2011
Shun Kanda & James Wescoat | MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
November 14, 2011
Stella McGregor: Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency
November 7, 2011
Lucy Walker | 99 is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary
October 31, 2011
INTELLIGENT LIFE — The Second Tribute to Commemorate Electroacoustic Pioneer Marianne Amacher
October 22, 2011
Otto Piene | Lichtballett
October 21, 2011December 31, 2011
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Documentary Fictions: The Otolith Group In Conversation with TJ Demos
October 21, 2011
Bartos Theater
Joichi Ito | Enabling Emergent Voices and Expression Through Technology
October 17, 2011
Jack Persekian | In the Meantime
October 3, 2011
Tess Thackara: Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights
September 26, 2011
Fall 2011 Lecture Series | Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions – Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis
September 26, 2011November 21, 2011
Joan Jonas-My New Theatre
Joan Jonas | My New Theater: Reading Dante III
September 14, 2011October 31, 2011
MIT Lobby E14
Otto Piene: Sky Event at Fast Light 2011
September 7, 2011
Killian Court
Attila Csörgö | Turning Out the Space
April 4, 2011
Ricardo Dominguez | Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology
March 28, 2011
Jae Rhim Lee | Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and Other
March 14, 2011
Laurent Grasso | Science & Fictions
March 7, 2011
AR-ArtisticResearch
AR – Artistic Research
March 3, 2011
Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg | A Guide to Campo Del Cielo
February 28, 2011
Florian Dombois | Luginsland (On Art as Research)
February 14, 2011
Spring 2011 Lecture Series | Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet
February 4, 2011April 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, 2010November 8, 2010
Yvonne Rainer with Joan Jonas, moderator
April 12, 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, 2010April 12, 2010