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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Upcoming Events
| 02/13/12 |
ACT Lecture| MIchael Corris: What Do Artists Know? Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
February 13, 2012
Some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation. We seem to be in the midst of a cultural moment where the instrumentalization of art has never been more widely accepted among artists. Whether such artistic practices seek to work across disciplines like science or sociology, or aim to intervene positively in the social and cultural life of communities, the artists involved may be said to hold in common the belief that there is a real advantage...
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| 03/05/12 |
ACT Lecture| Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and Simulations
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
March 5, 2012
Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto juxtaposes cultural material from different international communities, such as those of the Japanese Americans, Nipo-Brasiliero, Peruvian Quechua and Hollywood communities. The photographic series North South East West focuses on the erased history of American Civil War soldiers of Asian descent. Yonemoto’s collaboration with Dr. Juli Carson deals with the...
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| 03/12/12 |
ACT Lecture| Taru Elfving: Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
March 12, 2012
Taru Elfving, curator and director of Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), calls into play the curatorial notion of the "dysfunctional" exhibition and its role within the larger concept of sustainability. CAA, a trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural exhibition spread across the isles of the Turku Archipelago (Baltic Sea), included over 23 international artists who researched the area’s environment and ways of life, and worked with the local community and institutions. Elfving...
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| 04/02/12 |
ACT Lecture| Gloria Sutton: Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
April 2, 2012
In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art production. This talk focuses on the institutionalization of media art with a particular emphasis on the Long Beach Museum of Art’s prescient move to set up a media art center and commission artists to create a broadcast channel to distribute...
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| 04/09/12 |
ACT Lecture| Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
April 9, 2012
Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ways these may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. His projects are presented in different media such as photography, video, publications, the Internet, installations, and urban interventions. Muntadas has received numerous awards and grants, and his work has been exhibited...
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| 04/23/12 |
ACT Lecture| Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
April 23, 2012
This talk will analyse the sonic and affective turns that have appeared relatively recently in both contemporary art practice and current critical thought from the standpoint of what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi has termed “semiocapitalism.” Though the attention to sound and affect is typically held to be a remedy to the excesses of the past few decades (occularcentrism, the preoccupation with discursivity, and the persistence of form, to name but a few), affect is precisely...
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04/04/14-
04/04/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Attila Csörgö: Turning Out the Space
Presented by
April 4, 2014-April 4, 2011
Respondent: Thomas D. Trummer
Hungarian artist Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his work Peeled Spaces. Distorted Spaces focuses on the photographic representation of our surroundings. The Platonic Geometry is a series of kinetic sculptures dealing with the metamorphosis of a regular polyhedron. Csörgö applies the language of geometry and physics to traditional, pre-digital-age materials like sticks, strings and...
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Current &
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Upcoming Events
| 02/13/12 |
ACT Lecture| MIchael Corris: What Do Artists Know? Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
February 13, 2012
Some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation. We seem to be in the midst of a cultural moment where the instrumentalization of art has never been more widely accepted among artists. Whether such artistic practices seek to work across disciplines like science or sociology, or aim to intervene positively in the social and cultural life of communities, the artists involved may be said to hold in common the belief that there is a real advantage...
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| 03/05/12 |
ACT Lecture| Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and Simulations
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
March 5, 2012
Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto juxtaposes cultural material from different international communities, such as those of the Japanese Americans, Nipo-Brasiliero, Peruvian Quechua and Hollywood communities. The photographic series North South East West focuses on the erased history of American Civil War soldiers of Asian descent. Yonemoto’s collaboration with Dr. Juli Carson deals with the...
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| 03/12/12 |
ACT Lecture| Taru Elfving: Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
March 12, 2012
Taru Elfving, curator and director of Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), calls into play the curatorial notion of the "dysfunctional" exhibition and its role within the larger concept of sustainability. CAA, a trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural exhibition spread across the isles of the Turku Archipelago (Baltic Sea), included over 23 international artists who researched the area’s environment and ways of life, and worked with the local community and institutions. Elfving...
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| 04/02/12 |
ACT Lecture| Gloria Sutton: Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
April 2, 2012
In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art production. This talk focuses on the institutionalization of media art with a particular emphasis on the Long Beach Museum of Art’s prescient move to set up a media art center and commission artists to create a broadcast channel to distribute...
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| 04/09/12 |
ACT Lecture| Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
April 9, 2012
Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ways these may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. His projects are presented in different media such as photography, video, publications, the Internet, installations, and urban interventions. Muntadas has received numerous awards and grants, and his work has been exhibited...
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| 04/23/12 |
ACT Lecture| Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
April 23, 2012
This talk will analyse the sonic and affective turns that have appeared relatively recently in both contemporary art practice and current critical thought from the standpoint of what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi has termed “semiocapitalism.” Though the attention to sound and affect is typically held to be a remedy to the excesses of the past few decades (occularcentrism, the preoccupation with discursivity, and the persistence of form, to name but a few), affect is precisely...
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04/04/14-
04/04/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Attila Csörgö: Turning Out the Space
Presented by
April 4, 2014-April 4, 2011
Respondent: Thomas D. Trummer
Hungarian artist Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his work Peeled Spaces. Distorted Spaces focuses on the photographic representation of our surroundings. The Platonic Geometry is a series of kinetic sculptures dealing with the metamorphosis of a regular polyhedron. Csörgö applies the language of geometry and physics to traditional, pre-digital-age materials like sticks, strings and...
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Past
Events
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Past Events
04/04/14-
04/04/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Attila Csörgö: Turning Out the Space
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| 12/08/11 |
Visions & Projections — An Evening Celebrating the Legacy of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
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| 11/21/11 |
Amar Kanwar
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 11/14/11 |
James Wescoat & Shun Kanda: MIT japan 3/11 initiative
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 11/07/11 |
Stella McGregor: Ploughshares from Swords
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 10/31/11 |
Lucy Walker: 99 Is Not 100
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 10/22/11 |
Intelligent Life – The Second Tribute to Commemorate Electroacoustic Pioneer Maryanne Amacher
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| 10/17/11 |
Joichi Ito: Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 10/03/11 |
Jack Persekian: In the Meantime
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
04/08/11-
04/10/11 |
TalkDraw MIT
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| 03/28/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Ricardo Dominguez: Transborder Disturbances
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| 03/14/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Jae Rhim Lee: Parallel/Peripheral
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| 03/07/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Laurent Grasso: Science & Fictions
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| 02/28/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: A Guide to Campo del Cielo
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| 02/14/11 |
Collision 2 Lecture Series | Florian Dombois: Luginsland (On Art as Research)
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| 11/08/10 |
Lauren Bon: Metabolic Studio
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 11/01/10 |
Steve Dietz: Build Your Own World
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 10/25/10 |
SOFT, SMART & STEALTHY: New Paradigms for Design Practice
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 10/22/10 |
MIT ACT: Maryanne Amacher Tribute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10/18/10 |
Second Skin Bio-Suit
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 10/04/10 |
Bulbo Media Collective: Tierra Brilliante
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
09/21/10-
09/27/10 |
Laura Anderson Barbata: 21st Century Living in the Amazon—In the Order of Chaos
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 09/20/10 |
Regina Maria Moeller—Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin, Poison Ivy
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
| 09/13/10 |
Elke Gaugele: Climate Changes in Science Fashion
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| 03/08/10 |
Bread and Puppet Theater, Peter Schumann
MIT Bartos Theater, ground floor Bldg E15 |
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