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MIT Visual Arts Program

The MIT Visual Arts Program hosts Monday Nights @ VAP, a cross-disciplinary lecture series, every Fall and Spring term. Spring 2009: "Collision" examines the intersection of research in science, technology and contemporary art. Fall 2008 series: "This is Tomorrow? Urban Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia" includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and technology from around the world. Spring 2008 lecture series entitled "Zones of Emergency" is a collaboration between MIT VAP and artists, technologists, theorists and practitioners. Fall 2007 series: "Give Me Shelter"


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Gediminas Urbonas-Ruta Remake

Gediminas Urbonas-Ruta Remake

Added 5 months ago | 01:10:26 | 208 views

Gediminas Urbonas is a newly-appointed Associate Professor in the MIT Visual Arts Program who began his artistic practice in Vilnius, Lithuania. There he shares an artistic collaboration with Nomeda Urbonas. Together they founded the JUT...

 Sebastian Seung

Sebastian Seung

Added 5 months ago | 01:23:41 | 200 views

A revolution is happening in neuroanatomy, the study of the brain?s structure. Modern neuroanatomists are generating images that reveal the full complexity of the brain?s neural network using machines that slice brains into thin sections...

 Amber Frid-Jimenez

Amber Frid-Jimenez

Added 5 months ago | 00:35:16 | 204 views

Frid-Jimenez will address the dynamic between people and machines in distributed networks, including CLI-mate, a project in development with conceptual artist Mel Chin composed of a networked platform that aims to create an intense perso...

Joe Dahmen

Joe Dahmen

Added 5 months ago | 00:38:07 | 174 views

Joe Dahmen is an architect whose work engages resource and energy consumption in the design of space and the infrastructure that supports it. He is Chief Executive Officer of Bodega Algae LLC. Dahmen has pioneered new construction techni...

Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti

Added 5 months ago | 00:36:03 | 202 views

A designer, engineer and agit-prop proponent, Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. He also practices architecture in Turin, Italy. His work has been shown at many venues, including the Venice Bienna...

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Genre
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Language
English
Location
265 Massachusetts Avenue N51-328 Cambrid
Web site
MIT | VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM (visualarts.mit.edu)

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