May 25
4:00 PM
328 Massachusetts Ave....

Something Very Specific

May 21, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

May 25–June 10, 4–8pm
Former Salvation Army thrift store, 328 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Opening Reception: May 25, 6–10pm

ART SHOW and EVENTS by Art, Culture and Technology graduate students at MIT. Exploring silence, ambivalence, non-knowledge, and psychodynamic interaction. Featuring diagrams for living, Sausage Tank, a signifying baseball cap, and dynamic video displays.

Join us for scheduled events and open hours May 25 through June 10 at the former Salvation Army thrift store, 328 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gediminas Urbonas to speak at Forum One

May 10, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Forum One, International forum on personal, professional and business leadship, will feature Gediminas Urbonas in the Participant of Inspiring Stories Session.

Forum One 2013 is in Kaunas, Lithuania on June 1 and 2, and will also feature keynote speaker Sir Richard Branson, and financial coach Bodo Schafer.
May 14
7:00 PM
E15-001, ACT Cube

Currency ~ Revolution: spatial strategies of resistance

May 01, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Please join thresholds 41 REVOLUTION! editor Ana María León and Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy: 04 CURRENCY issue editor Adrian Blackwell for short presentations on the overlapping contents of their journals’ latest issues and the objectives that inform their respective structures. What spatial strategies have been deployed to resist the political and economic repressions of past and present? How can journals function as research vehicles?
May 09
10:00 AM
ACT Cube, E-15-001

Guerino Mazzola and Reza Negarestani / Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation

Apr 30, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Guerino Mazzola earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Zurich University, where he also taught algebraic geometry. Mazzola has been a major figure within the European school of mathematical music theory since 1980 and has written six books on the subject including The Topos of Music, which was proposed by the American Mathematical Society as the mathematics book of the year in 2005.
May 01
10:00 AM
Varies

Luke Fowler / Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation

Apr 30, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Screening
10am–12:30pm
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture
1–3pm:ACT
Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Art, Culture and Technology Open House

Oct 02, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) welcomes all those who are interested in applying for a Masters of Science in Art, Culture (SMACT) to join us for a day of exploration and information at MIT on October 15, 2012.

Three Students Win Schnitzer Prize in Visual Arts

May 24, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett

The prize, established in 1996, recognizes MIT undergraduate and graduate students for the excellence of a body of work, in virtually any medium.

This year's winners are:
First place: Matthew Everett Lawson, SM ACT
Second place: Narda Alvarado, SM ACT
Third place: Nathan Lachenmyer, ENG
Honorable mention: Emily Tow, MECH ENG
Honorable mention: Elizabeth Anne Watkins, SM ACT

ACT's Reneé Green Designs MoMA Media Lounge

Feb 28, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett

Opening February 29, the new MoMA Media Lounge presents the museum's audio and video works in a flexible structure. Read more here: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1258

Beth Galston, SMVisS '81, Designs Award Winning Chain Link Fence

Dec 09, 2011. Posted by Darren Bennett

Congratulations to Beth Galston SMVisS and her installer Bartek Konieczny, for winning the Chain Link Fence Manufacturers Institute Les Grube Memorial Design Award for the Serpentine Fence Project in Boston.

Download Press Release from CLFMI
View Beth's website here.
Dec 09
4:00 PM
E-15-00 ACT Cube

disobedience: an ongoing video archive

Dec 06, 2011. Posted by Darren Bennett

Disobedience Archive brings together a series of practices and forms of individual self-representation just as they are finding the key to their strength in an alliance of art and activism: a transformation in the languages that society produces as a political subject and as a media object. What matters in Disobedience is not so much an ‘alliance’ between activist demands and artistic practices in order to achieve common goals: it is more that of a common space or a common base that is emerging.