Fall 2009 MIT Arts Sampler




	fall for arts at mit ARCHITECTURE Rising from the Wall's Fall: Dislocated City: Berlin Photographs by Angus Boulton How has Berlin transformed its politics, economics and culture since the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago? Dislocated City explores the city's complex layers of memory and history to reveal a visually-exhilarating cityscape in transformation, where old and new are thrown together in dynamic juxtaposition. Oct. 8-Jan. 22, Weekdays 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Wolk Gallery School of Architecture and Planning's Wolk Gallery DANCE Let it Snow: Snow: (a study) Remember snow? Performed by Tymberly Canale and Neil Harris, this dance theater piece based on memory, utilizes both video and dance to reveal both the sinister and serene feeling derived from snow and how a relationship can disappear in the cold. Nov. 5, 6:00 pm, Kresge Little Theater Dance Theater Ensemble EXHIBITIONS Without a Net: Tobias Putrih & MOS: Without Out Architectural sculptures or recycling? Building to withstand time or facing a fate of fragmentation? Tobias Putrih uses everyday materials such as cardboard, Styrofoam, and plywood to produce fragile structures that span from small modular objects to larger installation environments. His collaborations with MOS, a collective of designers and architects, use their software customized tools to produce simple but highly complex structures. Putrih's and MOS principal Michael Meredith's exhibition at the List Visual Arts Center will feature a newly commissioned work, Without Out, a large scale sculptural installation whose structural design is premised on its inevitable ruination. Oct. 23-Jan 3, List Visual Arts Center (E15) Oct 22: Opening Reception and Artists' Talk, 5:30-8:00 pm List Visual Arts Center Specimen Samples: Sampling MIT A rich collection of research topics being explored at the Institute. Visitors are enticed with the virus-built battery MIT President Hockfield showed US President Obama, a new thin skinned biosuit designed for space exploration, and the innovative use of a new catalyst in water splitting--all this and more represents MIT's commitment to working creatively, effectively and wisely for the betterment of humankind. Ongoing, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave. MIT Museum CAVS History: CENTERDISK An interactive videodisk produced by Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1982, is compilation of archival images, film, and video works from artists at CAVS. The work is culled from a variety of media from 60 artists over a span of 15 years, including works by Otto Piene, Muntadas, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Vin Grabill, Aldo Tambellini, Stan Van Der Beek, Paul Earls, Chris Janney, and The Medium is the Medium, produced by WGHB in 1968. Sept. 15-Dec. 15, Room N52-390 CAVS GLASS LECTURE A Glass Act: Lino Tagliapietra Delivers Hazlegrove Lecture Widely recognized as one of today's premier glass artists, Lino Tagliapietra "sets the standard by which all other glass blowers are measured" (Victoria and Albert Museum). Born in the glass-making center Murano, Italy, Tagliapietra began his apprenticeship at the age of 12, and by the age of 21, had earned the title of maestro. Oct. 20, 6:30 pm, Room 10-250 MIT Glass Lab INTERDISCIPLINARY Machine Art? Kelly Dobson Artist Lecture What happens when an artist/engineer works in the realms of technology, medicine, art, and culture? Alumna Kelly Dobson considers what machines do and mean for people other than the purposes for which they were consciously designed. She works with machines that call into question our shiftable notions of being and care. Oct. 27, 6:30 pm, Room N52-390 CAVS Propaganda or Hack? Mike Bonanno of "The Yes Men" Mike Bonanno of the activist collective The Yes Men, speaks about "Propaganda City." The Yes Men transformed New York City through a tactical media intervention one day in 2008 when they massively distributed a hoax print of the New York Times throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign. Oct. 26, 6:00 pm, Bartos Theater VAP Media City lecture series MEDIA ARTS Artist-in-Residence: Cary Fukunaga & Film Screening of *Sin Nombre, a film about the harrowing attempts of a Honduran family to cross the US border. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Cary Fukunaga, Katzenstein Artist-in-Residence from November 2-6, whose work as a writer, director, and cinematographer has taken him around the world--from the Arctic Circle to Haiti and West Africa. Nov. 4, 7:00 pm, Room 26-100 Office of the Arts CMS Talk: Political Remix Video Copyright law vs. public critique of popular culture. Remixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws. Elisa Kreisinger--a video remix artist, hacktivst--will deconstruct videos, honor the history of female fan vidders and the influences of African-American hip-hop cultures and debate the remix's ability to effect actual change. Oct. 15, 5:00 pm, Room 4-231 Comparative Media Studies MUSIC Guest Artist Recital: Daedalus String Quartet Mini-residency and concert by the Daedalus Quartet: Min-Young Kim, violin; Kyu-Young Kim, violin; Jessica Thompson, viola; and Raman Ramakrishnan, cello. Program includes Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 74 Harp; and MIT Senior Lecturer Charles Shadle's String Quartet, Op. 61. Nov. 6, 8:00 pm, Kresge Auditorium Music and Theater Arts THEATER Summer Dreamin': A Midsummer Night's Dream* Shakespeare's comedy will be combined with Mendelssohn's music, for an unforgettable multi-media experience involving MIT actors, singers, visual artists and the MIT Symphony Orchestra. Dec. 3-4, 8:00 pm, Kresge Auditorium Music and Theater Arts CC@MIT Reading: From Orchids to Octopi Surprises erupt as a muralist's work is derailed by hallucinations, pregnancy, and dinosaurs in this witty take on how we understand--or do not--the theory of evolution. New play by Melinda Lopez was commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Origin of the Species. John Durant, director of the MIT Museum, and Thomas Levenson, professor of Science Writing, will lead audience conversations following the shows. Oct. 16 (5:00 pm), Oct. 17 (1:00 pm), Kresge Little Theater Catalyst Collaborative@MIT WRITING MIT Writers Series: Merlinda Bobis "Hush, I Know a Story You Don't Know: The Small Story/the Big Politics." Merlinda Bobis, University of Wollongong, Australia, will speak on her latest novel The Solemn Lantern Maker. Oct. 30, 4:00 pm, Room 4-231 Writing and Humanistic Studies