ACT - MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and its predecessor, the MIT Visual Arts Program (VAP), have hosted a Monday Night cross-disciplinary lecture series every Fall and Spring term since 2007.

Collection videos

Stella McGregor: Ploughshares from ...

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11/07/2011 Stella McGregor, Director, Urbano Project (USA) Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency Respondent: Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA) How does creative activism contribute to...

Lucy Walker: 99 is not 100 – Docume...

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10/31/2011 Lucy Walker, filmmaker (UK) 99 is not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary Respondent: Claude Grunitzky, Chairman, TRUE, Sloan Fellow, MIT (USA) How do we observ...

Florian Dombois: Luginsland (On Art...

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02/14/11 Luginsland (On Art as Research) Florian Dombois, founder of the Y – Institute of Interdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland  Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Director and Associate Professor L...

Attila Csorgo: Turning Out the Space

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04/04/11 Turning Out the Space Attila Csorgo, artist, Budapest, Hungary Respondent: Thomas D. Trummer, Siemens Stiftung Curator of Visual Arts  Attila Csörgö uses fruit peels to demonstrate problems of space and plane geometry in his wo...

Elke Gaugele, "Climate Changes in S...

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9/13/10 - Climate Changes in Science Fashion  Elke Gaugele As future technologies of the modern augmented self and its geopolitical extensions, proactive clothing was first anticipated at the turn of the century in popular culture, scien...