First-of-its-kind Indigenous immersive incubator gathers on MIT campus
Over the course of four days, Indigenous delegates collaborated on immersive technology with MIT community members.
Center for Art Science and Technology (CAST)
Architectural heritage like you haven’t seen it before
“Ways of Seeing” project documents endangered Afghan heritage sites through digital imaging, virtual reality, and hand-drawn professional renderings.
Taking the long view: The Deep Time Project
Architecture students address the urgent need to reframe the relationship between design and time.
3 Questions: The power of music in advancing social justice
Frederick Harris Jr., MIT senior lecturer and creator of the It Must Be Now! initiative, reflects on music’s historic role in addressing racial issues.
Comedy meets mathematics in a new opera at MIT
Senior music lecturer Elena Ruehr turns Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, groundbreaking thinkers of modern computing, into crime fighters.
Breaking out of the box
An MIT residency unlocks the dreamlike world of the dance-theater piece “The History of Empires.”
Merging storytelling and technology, “The Conquered” comes together in true MIT fashion
MIT professors collaborate at a whirlwind pace to create and stage a play inspired by advances in neurotechnology.
Machine learning and the arts: A creative continuum
CAST Visiting Artist Andreas Refsgaard engages the MIT community in the ethics and play of creative coding.
“Ballet des Porcelaines” at MIT
A contemporary reinterpretation of an 18th century ballet reveals the fragility of orientalist fantasies.
MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
A new board game highlights the colonized experience
Departing from games that glorify European conquest, “Promesa” helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony.
“Visualizing the Proton” through animation and film
An art-science collaboration tests the limits of visual technologies.
Student-led MIT course provides an inside look at K-pop
Artists and industry professionals including AleXa join the online course, offering insights into Korean pop music.
How MIT students are transforming the art of narrative
A new exhibition explores the possibilities of virtual storytelling.
Considering the spiderweb
After nearly a decade, an interdisciplinary collaboration to model a 3D spider web leads to many surprising results.