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Artist-thinkers exploring art’s complex conjunctions w/ culture & tech. Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT. Related: @mitsap @mitarchitecture

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I've been trying to parse how a concept ossifies in a machine and it resulted in four lamps/sculptures and a website about gnosticism.

Open 12-5 every day, closing reception on the 30th.

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Visited with @actmit this week to talk libraries past and far future. Huge gratitude to Renée Green, Tobias Putrih, and Javier Anguera Phipps for hosting us! And extra special props to @hugh_scott_douglas for being in dialogue. Such a great visit. Thank you, Cambridge

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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

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AMPHIBIAN DRIFT
XR experience + LP launch

Excited to premiere at the inaugural @mitfuturefest — a new five-day festival exploring art, science, technology, and human understanding.

📍 MIT.nano Immersion Lab (12-3207) @mitimmersionlab
60 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139
🗓 October 2–3, 2026 | 11 AM–5 PM

An immersive multi-user XR experience and sonic exploration of interspecies entanglement across molecular, acoustic, and environmental scales.

At its core: a 3D model of a silk protein produced by Hydropsyche caddisfly larvae. Developed through AI-assisted molecular modeling at MIT, the previously uncharacterized protein becomes a navigable sonic environment, where molecular vibrations are translated into sound and participants’ gestures continuously reshape the soundtrack.

The experience features The Elegy of Motion by Markus J. Buehler @profbuehlermit .

The accompanying LP, Amphibian Songs v.2, features compositions by Markus J. Buehler, Nicole L’Huillier @nico_lh , Brandon LaBelle @b_llabelle , Grönlund-Nisunen @petterinisunen and Francisco López.

Concept & artistic direction: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas @urbonasstudio , MIT ACT @actmit , SA+P @mitsap
Protein modelling: Wei Lu / MIT LAMM
XR development: Terry Kang @techcrab101 and Thomas Lee Harriett @thomas.silent.h / Pyraloid
Poster: NODE Berlin Oslo @nodeberlinoslo

Supported by Northway Biotech, @mitmuseum , @mit.nano

@mitfuturefest is presented by: MIT Museum @mitmuseum , MIT Technology Review @technologyreview , and MIT Morningside Academy for Design @mitdesignacademy

#amphibiandrift #mitfuturefest #xr #artandsciencse

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Get to know the arts at MIT! Explore resources, events, workshops, and connect with fellow MIT art lovers.

Join the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program, Infinite Magazine, List Visual Arts Center, MIT Museum, Music and Theater Arts, MIT Office of the Arts, and MIT Open Space Programming for an evening of art, food, and fun.

Check out the List Center galleries and enter the lottery to borrow a work of art, meet student artists, and learn more about MIT’s robust arts community.

Advance registration is preferred, though walk-ins are welcome. The event will begin at the List Visual Arts Center, located on the atrium level of the Wiesner Building E15, from 4:30–6:30 PM. Afterward, the event will continue at MIT Museum’s After Dark program until 9:00 PM, where registered Arts on the Radar attendees will receive free admission and complimentary pizza on a first-come, first-served basis.

This event is open to the MIT community. Capacity is limited; re-entry will be permitted as space allows. Register at the link in bio!

📸 Images: Cassandra Rodriguez and Arts at MIT

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On Tuesday morning (Sept. 8), the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (@mitsap) is on the move — literally.

Join us for The Living Bucentaur, a joyful procession on MIT’s campus marking SA+P’s move into its new home in the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse (the MET). Designed by Professor Azra Akšamija and students, the procession is being brought to life by members of the entire school community.

What’s a Bucentaur? A ceremonial Venetian vessel recreated for a pageant staged by MIT in 1916 to celebrate the Institute’s move from Boston to Cambridge. 110 years later, we’re bringing the Bucentaur back — this time, it will be made out of people.

The procession will bring together the school’s community, its work, and its history for a collective journey to the MET, a century-old Cambridge landmark newly transformed into a home for architecture, design, and planning at MIT.

For weeks, faculty, students and staff of SA+P have been creating the costumes and props that will be worn and carried that day.

We’ll begin walking at approximately 9:45 am on Tuesday, September 8. Everyone is welcome to watch and cheer the procession along the route.

📆 Tuesday, September 8 | 9:45 am
📍 Building 7 → the MET, passing the Student Center
Free and open to the public
📷 archival image courtesy of the MIT Museum
🔗 Link in bio

@mit | @mitsap | @mitarchitecture | @mitdusp | @mitlcau | @mitmedialab | @actmit | @mitdesignacad | @mitmuseum | @artsatmit Event poster for "The Living Bucentaur" showing a tilted green and magenta layout, a vintage photograph of a ceremonial barge on water, and text announcing a September 8, 10am choreographed procession from MIT Building 7 to the MET Warehouse.

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In support of the MIT Museum’s mission to welcome all to participate in MIT’s unique culture of problem-solving and playful creativity, we seek proposals for compelling digital content that explores humanity's relationship with the theme of BRAIN.

We encourage proposals from artists, scientists, engineers, designers, and other creative practitioners from MIT and beyond. Swipe to learn more →

The open call will close on November 1, 2026. Visit our website for more information and instructions on how to apply; link in bio.

Image 1: © Prachi Ojha and Mriganka Sur and courtesy of the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Image 2: The digital screen in the Yuchun (1989) and Agustina Lee Family Exchange. Photo by Studio TheGreenEyl

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This September, the MIT School of Architecture + Planning is moving into the Metropolitan Warehouse. We are marking the move by making the Living Bucentaur: a collective procession that will walk 250+ bodies of the School from its old home into the new one.

The project reimagines MIT’s 1916 Bucentaur, a ceremonial barge created when MIT moved across the Charles River from Boston to its new Cambridge campus. This time, there is no boat. We become the boat.

This summer, my students and I we have been developing it together, inviting MIT community to participate in the making process.

Retired sails become garments and wings. Oyster shells become lace and rattles. Garment bags become costumes. Books, buckets, 2×4s and umbrellas become instruments, props and strange creatures.

Cutting, sewing, folding, hammering, clapping, drumming, testing, wearing, failing, trying again. The Living Bucentaur is taking shape through many hands across the MIT community.

Some glimpses from the collaborative making so far. So much joy!

@actmit @sapmit @mitarchitecture @mitdusp @mitakpia @lcau @morningsidedesignacademy

#LivingBucentaur #MIT #ACTMIT #SAPMIT #MITArchitecture MITDUSP MITAKPIA LCAU MorningsideDesignAcademy CollectiveMaking

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#inhisownwords - Episode 1 - “Predicting Artificial Intelligence”

In this episode, hear Tambellini express his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence and its place in society. This excerpt is taken from a panel that Tambellini participated in at the “Cable Television and the Arts” conference held in 1980 in Atlanta, GA.

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We spent five hours at the MIT Museum yesterday cutting „lace“ by hand out of Tyvek fabric, tracing oyster shells onto architectural cloth in memory of what once lived on this filled marsh before the MIT campus did. Lace is very slow to make, and that is the point: we think about time by spending it. With blunt scissors and no blades, the work stayed imprecise, and in that slowness people arrived, stayed, and connected, some meeting for the first time after years in the same school. Making the task inefficient made more room for one another. The flat sheet gradually became three-dimensional and alive. These cloths will become part of the procession costumes for SA+P’s move to the Met on September 8. The workshop at the museum was part of Time Without Clocks programme, curated by artist Helga Schmid.

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📚 Summer reading, SA+P edition.

Each year, MIT invites its community to share what they are reading and writing. Here is a look at recent & forthcoming work from SA+P faculty, researchers, & staff.

📘 Henry Lieberman (CSAIL, formerly Media Lab) contributed a chapter to Usability for the World: Sustainable Cities, exploring user-centered design principles for urban planning

📘 Karrie G. Karahalios, Prof. of Media Arts & Sciences at the ML, is among the authors of Auditing AI, a roadmap for auditing AI systems in healthcare, policing, & employment

📘 Alex Pentland, Prof. at the ML, authored Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, exploring how AI can support human deliberation

📘 Jason Jackson, Associate Prof. of Political Economy & Urban Planning at DUSP, has 2 new books: Traders, Speculators, & Captains of Industry + Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India, examining foreign investment and economic policy

📘 Brent D. Ryan, MIT Vice Provost & Prof. of Urban Design and Public Policy, co-edited Small-Town Renaissance, on digital transformation in rural regions

📘 Elisabeth Reynolds, Prof. of the Practice at DUSP, edited Priority Technologies, presenting a roadmap for US leadership in emerging technologies

📘 Delia Wendel, Associate Prof. of Urban Studies & International Development at DUSP, authored Rwanda's Genocide Heritage, exploring preservation, memory, & reparative historiography

📘 Rosalyn Shieh, Assistant Prof. in Architecture, co-authored Blanking, translating studio exchanges into written form across architecture and urbanism

📘 Miho Mazereeuw, Associate Prof. of Architecture and Urban Studies & Planning, authored Design Before Disaster, a framework for disaster preparedness based on lessons from Japan

And 2 works of fiction & poetry:

📘 Sarah C. Beckmann, Comms & Marketing Associate at MIT, published The Race for Daphne, a poetry collection exploring girlhood, womanhood, & motherhood

📘 Scott Austin Tirrell, Director of Administration & Finance at ACT, published Jezelle: Thief of Forks, a fantasy novel

🔗 in bio

@mit @mitsap @mitarchitecture @mitdusp @mitmedialab @mit_lcau @actmit Text tile with books and bright colors and geometrical shapes stating: "Looking for your next summer read? Explore a selection of books published over the past year by MIT faculty and staff."

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For Mehves Lelic (@mehveslelic), photography has never been about choosing between opposites. It is about learning to inhabit the space between them.

A lens-based artist, curator, and educator, Lelic joined SA+P as head of exhibitions and public programming for the MET Commons — a shared public space for exhibitions, installations, events, activations, teaching, gathering, critique, and informal exchange within the forthcoming Metropolitan Storage Warehouse (the MET).

Lelic is also lecturer in MIT's Art, Culture, and Technology program (@actmit) bringing a practice shaped by questions of belonging and displacement, gratitude and grief, illness and healing. Raised in Istanbul, a city she describes as full of contrasts, she first turned to the camera as a teenager as a way to articulate the tensions around her. That impulse has remained central ever since.

Her work has taken her from documentary assignments for National Geographic (@natgeo) documenting Bektashi communities in Eastern Europe, to layered photographic composites created with immigrant communities on Maryland's Eastern Shore for a Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art commission, to experimental materials drawn from her own experience navigating genetic illness and treatment. Across these projects, a consistent question emerges: can a photograph hold multiple truths at once?

At ACT, Lelic is looking forward to bringing those questions into the classroom, working with students across disciplines to move from the reflex of image-making into something more intentional. Among the projects she hopes to explore: building cameras from scratch.

"As a maker, I feel like one of the greatest privileges is being able to look closely," she says.

📷 Images courtesy of Mehves Lelic.

🔗 Article by Marissa Friedman at the link in bio.

@mit @mitsap @actmit White ceremonial garments hang from a clothesline in a grassy courtyard, framed by an open white gate, drying outdoors in the sunlight.

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