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The MIT Arts Startup Incubator just opened with a night at the Cantab Lounge on opportunities for entrepreneurs in the music industry.

Anj Fayemi ‘20, an Incubator alum and co-founder of the AI music marketing platform Rivet, joined Liza Levy, president of the Salt Lick Incubator, to talk through the obstacles working musicians face for a sustainable career, and what each of their companies is doing about it. Grammy-nominated roots musician Farayi performed a short set.

Applications for this year’s Incubator are open through October 29. Participating teams with arts and culture ideas in any creative industry get expert guidance and resources to build their ventures, and finalists pitch in the spring for a $15,000 prize.

🔗 link in our bio : arts.mit.edu/win
📸 Credit Meg Elkinton taken in Cantab Lounge by @artsatmit

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For the past six weeks, MIT has been the place I call home. Huge thanks to the Department of Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) for housing me as a Visiting Postdoc, and to my great hosts Gediminas Urbonas and Tobias Putrih.

Thanks to Zach Lieberman for letting me join your Future Sketches coding and drawing class at MIT Media Lab, to Svetlana Boriskina for opening the doors to your META lab and letting me weave with your incredible fibers, and to Jordan Cox and Connor Moorman from MIT.nano for guiding my X-ray studies and scans of orchids and silver crystals—opening portals to entirely new dimensions.

It’s been an incredible journey through cleanrooms and laboratories, museums and studios. Thanks to everyone I met on the way. May our paths cross again soon!

@mit @actmit @urbonasstudio @tputrih #mitimaginationlab #studionano @mitmedialab @futuresketches @zach.lieberman @mit.nano #glitchingthepattern taken in MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts by @artsatmit

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Don’t worry, that music isn’t just in your head! Check out jam_bot in the lobby of the MIT Museum, now through October 13.

jam_bot is an AI musical partner created by Grammy-winning keyboardist, composer, and technologist @jcrudess in collaboration with the Responsive Environments Group at @mitmedialab .

jam_bot listens, responds, and creates with musicians in real time—a whole new kind of live musical improvisation. Try it for yourself!

CAST Distinguished Visiting Artist Jordan Rudess will perform two concerts with jam_bot during MIT Future Fest on Saturday, October 3. The 5 pm performance is included with an MIT Future Fest pass, and individual tickets for both performances are also available for those without a pass. Visit arts.mit.edu for more 🎶

Photos by Rachel Swansburg by @artsatmit

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I can’t afford to miss any practice time while up here at MIT! Playing 2 shows tomorrow in the round (October 3rd) here at Tull Auditorium on campus. One is at 5pm and the other at 8pm. Link in bio for info! See ya there! @casio_us @casiomusicgear @artsatmit @mitmedialab @mitfuturefest by @artsatmit

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As part of the inaugural MIT Future Fest (@mitfuturefest), Kahlil Joseph and the “BLKNWS” team have created a new edition of “BLKNWS®,” featuring conversations with members of the MIT community filmed on campus in August 2026.

Bringing together scholars, scientists, artists, and thinkers from across the Institute, Joseph’s MIT Edition asks what it means to imagine the future from one of the world’s most consequential research communities, and what the intersection of Black intellectual life, technology, and cultural imagination looks like when given a platform at MIT.

Learn more on our website and visit the List Center atrium through Sunday, October 4, 2026 to view the work in person.

Pictured: Kahlil Joseph, “BLKNWS®” (2018–ongoing). Two-channel video installation (continuously updated); photographic wallpaper. Installation detail: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, 2019. Image: courtesy Cantor Arts Center taken in MIT List Visual Arts Center by @artsatmit

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Boston and Cambridge friends—come hear me play THIS SATURDAY! 🎹

October 3, I’m bringing piano, improvisation, the MIT Chamber Chorus, and a little jam_bot magic to Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT for TWO shows—5 PM and 8 PM.

We’re celebrating my MIT residency with music I’m excited to share with you. Come spend part of your Saturday with us—and bring a friend who loves an adventurous musical evening!

📍 Thomas Tull Concert Hall · MIT · Cambridge, MA
🗓 Saturday, October 3 · 5 PM & 8 PM
🎟 Tickets at the link in my bio.

See you at the piano! @artsatmit @mitfuturefest @mitmedialab @jambotmit #pianote #keyboardist #piano by @artsatmit

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Excited to be speaking this Saturday at MIT Future Fest @mitfuturefest

The Body Reimagined: When Anatomy Becomes a Site of Design

Part of a new five-day festival exploring the intersections of design, science, and technology — and the next era of human understanding.

A question at the center of my work: what happens when embodiment itself becomes a site of design?

I’ll be in conversation with Hugh Herr @hugh.herr Professor at the MIT Media Lab, moderated by Paola Antonelli @paolantonelli Senior Curator of Architecture & Design and Director of R&D at MoMA.

From bionics and neural interfaces to new morphologies, embodied architectures, and nonhuman forms of embodiment.

The conversation is part of the public opening of MIT’s new Metropolitan Warehouse and of MIT Future Fest, led by the MIT Museum @mitmuseum in collaboration with MIT Technology Review @technologyreview and MIT Morningside Academy for Design @mitdesignacademy .

Saturday, October 3rd, 1:15pm ET • MET Warehouse by @artsatmit

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Music that answers back. 🎹✨

Join me this Saturday, October 3, at MIT for two special performances with jam_bot, the MIT Chamber Chorus, and student performers. Piano, voices, and a musical conversation that unfolds in real time. I’d love to see you there!

📍 Thomas Tull Concert Hall · MIT · Cambridge, MA
🕔 5 PM & 8 PM
🎟️ Tickets: link in bio @mitmedialab @jambotmit @artsatmit @mitfuturefest

#JordanRudess #jam_bot #MIT #MITMediaLab #MusicAndTechnology by @artsatmit

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BOSTON-area friends—I’m playing two CONCERTS at MIT this Saturday, October 3! 🎹

I’ll be at the piano, joined by the MIT Chamber Chorus and student performers, celebrating my residency at MIT. Piano, voices, improvisation, and a few musical surprises with jam_bot—it’s a part of my musical world I’m excited to share with you.

📍 Thomas Tull Concert Hall
MIT · Cambridge, MA
🕔 October 3 · 5 PM & 8 PM
🎟 $10 general / $5 MIT
Tickets at the link in my bio.

Bring a friend and join us. I’d love to see some familiar faces—and meet some new ones! @artsatmit @mitmedialab @jambotmit @mitfuturefest

#berkleecollegeofmusic #bostonmusicscene by @artsatmit

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Three years of musical exploration, and I’m excited to share where it’s taken us. 🎹

My team at MIT and I have been developing jam_bot, opening up new possibilities for improvisation and musical conversation.

On October 3, we’re bringing it to the stage at MIT with live musicians and a choir. I’d love for you to join us!

📍 MIT • October 3 • 5 PM + 8 PM
🎹 Try jam_bot yourself at the MIT Museum, October 2–10.
🎟️ Click the link in my Bio for concert tickets

#jam_bot #MITMediaLab #MusicAndTechnology by @artsatmit

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For the first time, MIT’s newly transformed Metropolitan Storage Warehouse — the MET — is opening its doors to the public with a full day of activities.

Join us on Saturday, October 3, from 10am to 4pm for the MET Public Opening as part of Future Fest: a day of exhibitions, tours, talks, workshops, and hands-on experiences showcasing work from across the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the Institute.

Explore ideas and projects around four themes: the Future of Community, Future of Making + Design, Future of Creativity, and Future of Learning.

Presented by MIT SA+P (@mitsap), the Morningside Academy for Design (@morningsideacademy), and the MIT Museum (@mitmuseum).

🗓️ Saturday, October 3, 10am–4pm
📍 W41 MET Warehouse
Free and open to all
🔗 Future Fest information at the link in bio.

MIT Future Fest runs September 30–October 4 across the MIT campus, with five days of exhibitions, open labs, public talks, performances, and more. Current MIT students, faculty, postdocs, and staff can register for a free festival pass.

MIT Future Fest is produced by the MIT Museum with partners MIT Technology Review and MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

🎥 Drone shots by Emily Dahl

@technologyreview | @mitfuturefest | @mit by @artsatmit

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On Saturday, October 3, 2026, @jcrudess will perform two concerts at MIT’s Thomas Tull Concert Hall during the inaugural @mitfuturefest alongside musical guests and jam_bot, an AI model developed with Rudess and trained on his playing.

At the heart of the concert is a simple idea: this technology is not here to replace musicians, but to expand their creative possibilities and inspire new ways of making music.

Link in bio.

#mitfuturefest #jordanrudess #mit #mitmedialab #jambot #musictech taken in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by @artsatmit

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