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ACT (Art, Culture & Technology) TA Training

Val Grimm, Academic Assistant

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/17
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This workshop is designed to simulate an ACT class. Most ACT classes have a hands-on component and involve the exhibition of work. TA administrative tasks include marketing, budget management, and facilitating approvals. The hands-on and administrative elements are incorporated into the workshop. Emulating the structure and requirements of a course allows facilitators to introduce prospective TAs to the flow and needs of courses, identify potential issues, and discuss methods and resources for addressing issues.

Please register at  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DKG29XS by December 17th and contact valgrimm@mit.edu with questions.

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Val Grimm, E15-213, 617-324-6289, valgrimm@mit.edu


January 28

Jan/28 Mon 09:30AM-12:30PM E15, 2nd floor

Marion Cunningham - Administrative Officer, Val Grimm - Academic Assistant, Val Grimm - Staff, Madeleine Gallagher - Media Assistant, Martin Seymour - Media Assistant, Mike Enos - Financial Assistant, Laura Chichisan - Administrative Assistant, Jeremy Grubman - Librarian/Archivist


January 29

Jan/29 Tue 09:30AM-12:30PM E15, 2nd floor

Marion Cunningham - Administrative Officer, Val Grimm - Academic Assistant, Val Grimm - Staff, Madeleine Gallagher - Media Assistant, Martin Seymour - Media Assistant, Mike Enos - Financial Assistant, Laura Chichisan - Administrative Assistant, Jeremy Grubman - Librarian/Archivist


January 30

Jan/30 Wed 09:30AM-12:30PM E15, 2nd floor

Val Grimm - Academic Assistant, Marion Cunningham - Administrative Officer, Val Grimm - Staff, Madeleine Gallagher - Media Assistant, Martin Seymour - Media Assistant, Mike Enos - Financial Assistant, Laura Chichisan - Administrative Assistant, Jeremy Grubman - Librarian/Archivist


January 31

Jan/31 Thu 09:30AM-12:30PM E15, 2nd floor

Marion Cunningham - Administrative Officer, Val Grimm - Academic Assistant, Val Grimm - Staff, Madeleine Gallagher - Media Assistant, Martin Seymour - Media Assistant, Mike Enos - Financial Assistant, Laura Chichisan - Administrative Assistant, Jeremy Grubman - Librarian/Archivist


February 1

Feb/01 Fri 09:30AM-12:30PM E15, 2nd floor

Marion Cunningham - Administrative Officer, Val Grimm - Academic Assistant, Val Grimm - Staff, Madeleine Gallagher - Media Assistant, Martin Seymour - Media Assistant, Mike Enos - Financial Assistant, Laura Chichisan - Administrative Assistant, Jeremy Grubman - Librarian/Archivist


Ambient Sites, Ephemeral Veils, and Inside Spaces

Diane Willow, Visiting Associate Professor, Media Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: interest in reponsive social and spatial experience

Open, transparent, and readily visible, the architecture of the Media Lab becomes a spatial interface for locating research groups and individuals that occupy the building. Connective by nature, the offset strata, vast sight lines, and open aural expanse presents visitors with an immediate sense of being on the inside of a dynamic space and creative culture.  Shifting perspective to consider the life of the resident community inhabiting this space reveals an emphasis on the public experience, with an absence of participatory spatial modes of modulating visibility, voice, and presence. Ambient Sites, Ephemeral Veils, and Inside Spaces explores a series of propositions for in-situ transformations that re-shape interstitial common space in the Media Lab with temporary, reconfigurable, or mobile places for contemplation, quiet conversation, and small scale convergence. 

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Diane Willow, WILLOW@MEDIA.MIT.EDU


Jan/15 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548
Jan/16 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548
Jan/17 Thu 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548
Jan/18 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548

Diane Willow - Visiting Associate Professor, Media Lab


Argentine Tango Beginner Two Day Bootcamp

Hanna

Jan/26 Sat 01:00PM-05:00PM W16-RRB
Jan/27 Sun 01:00PM-05:00PM W16-RRB

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $30.00 for Instructor fees

MIT Tango Club is pleased to announce that the popular Two Day Tango Bootcamp returns for an IAP Edition!  Tango Bootcamp is an intensive two day introduction to Argentine Tango designed to get you from no dancing to tango in two quick days.

2011 IAP bootcamp demonstration video: http://www.facebook.com/v/10100286658316256/

Argentine Tango is a social dance with emphasis on leading and following, improvisation, and musicality. Partner connection and movement together to the music are emphasized over flashy moves. Come learn tango in a comfortable, relaxed, and open environment: in two days we teach you all the basics of Argentine Tango to get you ready for fun on the dance floor! You will learn tango connection, walking, ochos, cruzada, molinette and other delectable movements in this no-nonsense workshop. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

No dance partner or previous dance experience are needed: just a willingness to try new things. Space is limited. Our bootcamps have been very popular in the past so be sure to sign up at the website below.

Register here: http://tango.mit.edu/workshops/bootcamp.php

UPDATE ON 1/21/2013: The bootcamp is SOLD OUT and the online registration is now closed.

Sponsor(s): Tango Club
Contact: MIT Tango Club, tango@mit.edu


Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library

Cynthia Stewart, Docent, Boston Public Library

Jan/12 Sat 01:00PM-02:30PM Boston Public Lib., Meet inside Dartmouth St. entrance

Enrollment: Course is FULL
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 20 participants

Come tour the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of America's architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you'll see features made of 20 varieties of marble. On this special tour, you'll learn about the many connections between MIT and the BPL including a visit to the current exhibition, Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces, organized by MIT Architecture's Prof. John Ochsendorf.

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 7-337, 617-253-4408, stewart@mit.edu


Blues Dance Lesson

MIT Lindy Hop Society

Jan/09 Wed 07:30PM-09:00PM W20-208 Lobdell
Jan/16 Wed 07:30PM-09:00PM W20-208 Lobdell
Jan/23 Wed 07:30PM-09:00PM W20-208 Lobdell
Jan/30 Wed 07:30PM-09:00PM W20-208 Lobdell

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Blues dance is a style similar to swing dancing that is done to blues music - the foundation of all the popular music of today!  This four week series will introduce you to the fundamentals of how to rock out to this infectious music, both in terms of body movement and how to improvise with a partner so everyone has a great time!

 

Sponsor(s): Lindy Hop Society
Contact: MIT Lindy Hop Society, swing@mit.edu


Building Story Worlds: Space, Time, Rules, and Narrative in Game Design

Guilherme Marcondes, MIT Visiting Artists Program, Philip Tan, Creative Director, Game Lab, Sonny Sidhu, Comparative Media Studies, Rosalind Williams, Bern Dibner Prof of the History of Sci & Tech (STS)

Jan/14 Mon 10:00AM-05:00PM 56-180
Jan/15 Tue 10:00AM-05:00PM 56-180
Jan/16 Wed 10:00AM-05:00PM 56-180
Jan/17 Thu 10:00AM-05:00PM 56-180
Jan/18 Fri 10:00AM-05:00PM 56-180

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Visiting Artist Guilherme Marcondes, in conjunction with researchers from the MIT Game Lab and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, will lead a workshop exploring the role of space in storytelling. The workshop will focus on exploring how artists can use the tools of game design—including space, time, and rule sets—to construct complex narratives that are deeply embedded in the settings in which they unfold. Participants will learn how to design and refine a game prototype through playtesting and observation; produce, gather, organize, and use concept art, music, sounds, and other source materials to establish the mood of a narrative setting; and evaluate their own and others’ creations in a critique-based studio environment.

No prior programming experience is required. Participants will review examples of stories that deal with spatial exploration; explore in and around MIT on foot; and work in teams to create tabletop game prototypes.  Students who want to advance their projects may continue working with the researchers Jan. 21-24 & may exhibit and demonstrate these prototypes at a public event on Jan. 24 at the MIT Museum.  There is also opportunity in the second week for exploratory visits with faculty and labs.

The MIT Visiting Artists Program will host filmmaker, animator, and mixed-media artist Guilherme Marcondes for a two-week residency.  For more information visit http://arts.mit.edu/va/artist/marcondes/.

To register, email Meg Rotzel at mrotzel@mit.edu.

Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society, Game Lab, Comparative Media Studies
Contact: Meg Rotzel, 617-253-2372, mrotzel@mit.edu


Camera Clinic

Randall Warnier, Camera Culture group

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Digital photography has radically altered how images are made, delivered, perceived, and shown. This three-hour IAP seminar, developed in the Camera Culture group in the MIT Media Lab, is designed to enhance your ability to create consistently excellent digital photographs, using whatever camera you may have. The seminar covers four essential topics in good photography: (1) understanding camera operation; (2) seeing and using existing light; (3) learning how to photograph quickly, and (4) creating good visual composition through camera position. We also discuss effective techniques for making interesting photographs of people. Anyone interested in becoming a better digital photographer is invited to attend, and all levels of experience are welcome. Bring your camera (large, medium, or small) to the seminar. Please contact Taya Leary at taya@media.mit.edu for more information.

Friday January 25, from 4-7 p.m. or Friday February 1 from 4 to 7 p.m., both in room E15-363. Attend either session.

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Taya Leary, taya@media.mit.edu


Camera Clinic

Jan/25 Fri 04:00PM-07:00PM E15-363
Feb/01 Fri 04:00PM-07:00PM E15-363

Ceramica Botanica

Sam Magee

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: see arts.mit.edu/saa
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Nature is a wonderful source of inspiration. Both wheel thrown and hand-built vessels will be stretched, altered and manipulated in various ways with a nature theme. Exploring numerous surface techniques, we will transform your vessel into a functional form or sculptural object. Think large leaf platters, perhaps plump peach pitchers or over-sized sculptural pears.

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, x3-4004, sammagee@mit.edu


Ceramica Botanica

Jan/08 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/15 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/22 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/29 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM W20-431

Darrell Finnegan - SAA teacher


CityScience Workshop: LEGO and Grasshopper Methods for Compact Urban Neighborhood Design

Kent Larson, Director of City Science Initiative, Ryan Chin, Managing Director, City Science Initiative

Enrollment: First come, first served
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: participants are encouraged, but not required to go to all sessions.
Prereq: This is a non-credit IAP course. Permission of instr.

Description The world is experiencing a period of extreme urbanization. In China alone, 300 million rural inhabitants will move to urban areas over the next 15 years. This will require building new infrastructure to accommodate the equivalent of the current population of the United States in just a few decades. It is a global imperative to develop systems that improve livability while dramatically reducing resource consumption. This workshop will explore the complex and interdependent nature of housing, mobility, energy, and food production systems for high-density cities.

Student Deliverables Students will explore urban systems at both the neighborhood scale (~1km²) and the block scale.  Participants will develop a process for understanding and resolving a set interdependent urban parameters including building massing, space use, shared mobility networks, streetscape types, parks, urban food production, and energy generation nodes.  Students may elect to work with either 3D physical models using color-coded LEGO bricks as an abstract framework, or parametric computation software such as Grasshopper. Precedents from existing cities and current urban theory will be used to inform the development of urban strategies that maximize livability and positive human interaction while minimizing the consumption of resources.

Research Areas Electric Mobility Ecosystems, Resilient Energy Systems, Transformable CityHomes, Urban Food Systems, and Streetscapes for Compact Urban Cells

 

 

 

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Ryan Chin, E15-392, 617 253-6828, RCHIN@MIT.EDU


CityScience Workshop

Jan/08 Tue 01:30PM-04:30PM E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/10 Thu 01:30PM-04:30PM E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/15 Tue 01:30PM-04:30PM E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/17 Thu 01:30PM-04:30PM E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/22 Tue 01:30PM-04:30PM E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/24 Thu 01:30PM-04:30PM E15-368, Bring your laptop

The workshop will meet on Tuesday and Thursdays from 130-430pm for three weeks in January (8th, 10th, 15th, 17th, 22nd, 24th) and will meet in E15-368.

Kent Larson - Director of City Science Initiative, Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative


Creating From Both Sides of the Brain

Seth Riskin, Co-Director, MIT Museum Studio, Allan Doyle, Co-Director, MIT Museum Studio

Jan/08 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM MIT Museum, Intro and prep.
Jan/10 Thu 01:00PM-05:00PM MIT Museum, w/ RISD
Jan/17 Thu 01:00PM-05:00PM MIT Museum, w/ RISD
Jan/24 Thu 01:00PM-05:00PM MIT Museum, w/ RISD
Jan/31 Thu 01:00PM-05:00PM MIT Museum, w/ RISD

Enrollment: contact instructor
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Contact instructor

Open to all members of the MIT community: be part of an MIT / Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) collaboration to develop an artwork/exhibit for public display at the MIT Museum.

MIT and RISD teams will combine art and engineering in creation of an experiential exhibit on a selected topic in visual perception. Using the MIT Museum as a resource, we'll explore the rich history of art/science/engineering collaborations at MIT. Examples are found in the works of Harold Edgerton, Edwin Land / Polaroid, Berenice Abbott, Stephen Benton and Aude Oliva's current "Hybrid Illusions". Cultivating individual and group methods for cross-disciplinary collaboration, we'll select a topic, generate ideas and construct prototypes. The goal is the creation of an artwork that will offer Museum visitors a novel and meaningful perceptual experience, further revealed and informed by surrounding exhibit information.

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Seth Riskin, N52-MUSEUM, 617 253-4405, RISKIN@MIT.EDU


dLight :: collaborative art installation @ Maseeh Hall

Diane Willow, Visiting Associate Professor | Media Lab, Ellan F. Spero, TA | STS

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: send 3 phrases that describe your interest in dLight

dLight is an open invitation for participation in the making of a collaborative light installation to be created and installed in Maseeh Hall during IAP. All interested students are welcome. Students who reside in Maseeh Hall are especially encouraged to participate. Artist Diane Willow, Maseeh Hall Residential Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor in the High-Low Tech research group at the Media Lab, is the catalyst for this collaborative art installation. She will introduce techniques that are accessible to all and create an inviting social environment that encourages creative art, science and technology sparks from people with little and lots of experience making things together. With your participation, dLight will culminate in an atmospheric light installation on the residential floors of Maseeh Hall. To sign up, send 3 phrases that describe your interest in participating in dLight.         

• scheduled meeting times will be determined with the project participants

Sponsor(s): Office of the Arts, Residential Life Programs
Contact: Diane Willow, WILLOW@MEDIA.MIT.EDU


Drawing Workshop (2D & 3D)

Alexander Farley, Seto Hendranata, SunMin May Hwang

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $50.00 for supplies

This class will explore issues of spatial representation. Students will start with the basics of drawing and mark-making through the sketching of simple objects and, through a series of workshops, establish different means and media to represent spaces in ways that go beyond literal representation.

The class will be structured around a series of workshops that will introduce different techniques, e.g. perspectival drawings, the process of collage, and crafting, to produce Three-Dimensional drawings. The goal of the course is to offer participants both technical and non-technical approaches techniques for producing spatial hybrid drawings. At its core, this class is about the joy of drawing and visual expressions.

Students may choose to explore the various drawing techniques or to become an expert on one of them.

 

Day 1 - Class Preview: Introduction to 3D drawings and class exercise

Day 2 - Workshop 1 - Contour Line & Blind Contour Drawings; individual tutorials

Day 3 - Workshop 2 - Collage & Alternative Materials: individual tutorials

Day 4 - Workshop 3 - Stitching, Printing, and Gilding: individual tutorials

Day 5 - Final Presentation - review and documentation

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Alexander Farley, afarley@mit.edu


Class Preview

Jan/12 Sat 10:00AM-01:00PM 3-401

Alexander Farley, Seto Hendranata, SunMin May Hwang


Contour Line & Blind Contour Drawings

Jan/15 Tue 06:00PM-09:00PM 3-401

Seto Hendranata, Alexander Farley, SunMin May Hwang


Collage & Alternative Materials

Jan/19 Sat 10:00AM-01:00PM 3-401

Seto Hendranata, Alexander Farley, SunMin May Hwang


Stitching, Printing, and Gilding

Jan/22 Tue 06:00PM-09:00PM 3-401

Seto Hendranata, Alexander Farley, SunMin May Hwang


Final Presentation: review/documentation

Jan/29 Tue 06:00PM-09:00PM 3-401

Alexander Farley, Seto Hendranata, SunMin May Hwang


I thought I wanted to be an architect

Zaurie Zimmerman

Feb/01 Fri 02:00PM-05:00PM 7-338 (Stella Room), Provide background and interests in signup request

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 20 participants

This course will reveal a fascinating alternative career path available to those with an interest in architecture, building-related engineering, real estate development or construction. If a far more comprehensive role in the process of bringing buildings to life interests you, one that is exciting, rewarding, demanding and crucial to a building project's success, please join us. 

Part One

Analysis of the key aspects of the roles of architect, owner and contractor in the planning, design and construction processes.  Exploration of the interplay of forces in the quality/schedule/budget triangle highlighting elements crucial to produce successful projects.  Introduction to development management, with a focus on sustainability, from the owner's perspective.

Part Two

Case studies of projects ranging from the mixed-use development of Rowes Wharf, to projects developed on the campuses of non-profit institutions including arts centers, technology buildings, science labs, and the first building built on the Rose Kennedy Greenway demonstrating principles of successful project management.

Instructor holds BSAD and MArch degrees from MIT, is a registered architect and a 25 year veteran of this profession.

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Zaurie Zimmerman, zaurie.zimmerman@gmail.com


Independent Study in 2D studio

Sam Magee, Coordinator of Student Art Programs

Jan/07 Mon 04:00PM-05:00PM W20, EHS orientation

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

This is an Independent Study in 2D. You will have 24 hour access with the exception of scheduled class times, to work on your own projects. The expectation of the Independent Studio user is that they assist in studio management.

 

Visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register.

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Independent Study in Ceramics

Darrell Finnegan

Jan/08 Tue 03:00PM-04:00PM W20-431

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Use the studio independently whenever scheduled classes are not in session. Cost of materials are included within reason. Participants are expected to assist in the maintenance and operation of the studio, which may include recycling clay, loading or unloading a kiln, or helping in glaze preparation and general studio supervision. Mandatory orientation for this non-class term will be announced (precise time TBA).PREVIOUS Intermediate or Advanced SAA CERAMICS EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY, WITHOUT EXCEPTION. Any questions you have during the term about ceramics can be directed to the SAA Ceramic Tech. Instructor Darrell Finnegan finnegan@mit.edu, and any general questions, to Sam at sammagee@mit.edu.

 

visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Independent Study in Photography

Theresa Mislick

Jan/07 Mon 04:00PM-05:00PM W20-429

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Prereq: SAA photo studio use in the past
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

This is an Independent Study in Photography. You will have 24 hour use of the darkroom with the exception of scheduled classes. The expectation of the Independent Studio user, is that they aid in managing the studio and assist in materials tracking.Previous SAA studio use is a must.

 

visit the SAA to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Introduction to Drawing, as taught in the Class "Introduction to Design for Engineers"

Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer

Jan/17 Thu 02:00PM-04:30PM 1-190

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 25 participants

Learn the basic skills of drawing and you will be able to draw anything. This class takes the mystery out of drawing and simplifies the tools needed to gain skill in drawing. Students will be provided with simple materials, or may bring their own. This is the same class  that was  taught in Professor Einstein's Introduction to Design for Engineers.
Class will be limited to 25.

Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact: Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer, 1-342, x3-3280, jundzilo@mit.edu


MFA Japanese Art Tour

Hiromu Nagahara

Jan/09 Wed 02:00PM-03:30PM Meet at Museum

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 20 participants

Did you know that Boston is home to the largest collection of Japanese art outside of Japan? Join MIT Japan historian, Hiromu Nagahara, on a tour of the fascinating collection at MFA, including famous woodblock prints, Buddhist sculptures, and samurai swords. The tour will include a discussion of the artworks' significance as well as how they got to Boston in the first place.  *Meet at 2pm inside MFA's Huntington Ave. entrance. 
Students with MIT ID get in museum for free. 

Sponsor(s): History
Contact: Hiromu Nagahara, E51-255G, (617) 324-4977, nagahara@mit.edu


Monday Intro to Ceramics A / Mountains of Mugs

Sam Magee, Coordinator of Student Arts Programs

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Class begins with getting aquainted with the ceramic studio.Clay basics will be covered while constructing/designing wheel thrown and handbuilt mugs. Class ends with the glazing of your work and the admiration of your finished pieces.

 

visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Monday Intro to Ceramics A

Jan/07 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Jan/14 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Jan/21 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Jan/28 Mon 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - SAA teacher


Monday Intro to Ceramics B / Mountains of Mugs

Sam Magee

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Class begins with getting aqquainted to the ceramic studio. All the clay basics will be covered while constructing/designing wheel thrown and hadbuilt mugs. Class ends with the glazing of your work and the admiration of your finished pieces.

 

 

visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Jan/07 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/14 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/21 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/28 Mon 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - SAA teacher


Night Photography

Nora Vrublevska

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: Basic photography knowledge

Have you been intrigued by photos taken at night? The colors, tones and atmosphere look amazing! This 6 session course will get you started on night photography and will guide you through proper exposure, settings, equipment (digital or film), tools, and post-processing as it relates to night photography, as well as practical aspects of shooting in cold weather. You will learn about different lighting situations from bright urban to full moon, light painting, and star trails. We will go out photographing together and by end of the course you will have made a few magical images of your own. Students are required to come to the first class as a lot of important technical information will be covered.

Tools needed: Camera with bulb mode, tripod, cable release. Please bring camera manual with you. We will use the book Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark by Lance Keimig, and it will be available for purchase during the first class.

Instructor: Nora Vrublevska is a Cambridge based fine art photographer who mainly focuses on night photography. She has been a teaching assistant to Lance Keimig's Night Photography class at New England School of Photography and exhibits her work throughout New England. For more images and information visit www.noravrublevska.com. For this Night Photography class Nora is teaming up with a friend, also TA and fellow night photographer Dan Squires. Check out his work on www.fotodano.com.

Click here to sign up: goo.gl/4Z25U

Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Nora Vrublevska, 857-207-5124, nora.vrublevska@gmail.com


Intro Class

Jan/08 Tue 06:00PM-09:00PM 8-119

Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires


Practice on location

Jan/10 Thu 06:00PM-09:00PM TBD

Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires


Classroom session and critique

Jan/17 Thu 06:00PM-09:00PM 8-119

Dan Squires, Nora Vrublevska


Practice on location

Jan/24 Thu 06:00PM-09:00PM TBD

Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires


Practice on location

Jan/29 Tue 06:00PM-09:00PM TBD

Dan Squires, Nora Vrublevska


Review images and talk about projects

Jan/31 Thu 06:00PM-09:00PM 8-119

Nora Vrublevska, Dan Squires


Self Directed Life Drawing Club

Sam Magee, Coordinator of Student Arts Programs

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

This is a self directed Life Drawing club. The SAA will provide space and models, but no instructor. Sam Magee will drop in occasioanlly, but the idea is this is a time to practice and share one's skills. The price reflects the cost of the models, space and provided materials.

 

Visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register.

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Self Directed Life Drawing Club

Jan/11 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W20-429

Sam Magee - Coordinator of Student Arts Programs


Self Directed Life Drawing Club

Jan/18 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W20-425
Jan/25 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W20-425
Feb/01 Fri 05:00PM-08:00PM W20-425

Sam Magee - Coordinator of Student Arts Programs


Sonic Sculpture

Taras Mashtalir, Sonic Artist

Jan/15 Tue 02:00PM-03:00PM E14-363

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14

Lecture will cover the concept of sonic sculpture, an interactive multimedia artifact that consists of an urban sculpture, static or kinetic, accompanied by sound design in a multichannel configuration.

Conventional urban sculpture is silent. However, it is surrounded by sounds of the city and the constant stream of those sounds constitute ‘sonic pollution’. By introducing the sound design we refine its microclimate and eliminate the sonic pollution by embracing the sounds of the city and including them in a composition that becomes a soundscape.

The purpose of such a soundscape is to breath life into static sculptures and create harmonious sonic aesthetics in the urban environment.

www.sonicartist.me

Taras Mashtalir is an artist, composer and sound designer, a classical musician turned electronic sound producer. His compositions are unique blend of different genres morphed together and wrapped into a new aesthetic fabric of electronic ambience.  

For the past 12 years Taras has  produced numbers of albums, collaborating with many major artists. The works also include multimedia installations, soundtracks for the films and animations, as well as music for TV ads and programs like Discovery Science Channel, History Channel, Speed Channel, etc.

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Taras Mashtalir, (917) 724-9592, taras_@me.com


The Council for the Arts at MIT Grants Program

Susan Cohen, Director, Council for the Arts at MIT

Jan/23 Wed 02:00PM-03:00PM E14-240

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

An informal walk-through of the application and review process for proposals submitted to the Council for the Arts at MIT.  Please read the grant guidelines prior to attending this session. 

They can be found here: http://arts.mit.edu/about/camit/camit-grants/

Open to all currently-registered MIT undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.

Sponsor(s): Office of the Arts
Contact: Susan Cohen, E15-205, 617 253-4005, COHEN@MEDIA.MIT.EDU


The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development

Rebecca Ochoa

Jan/16 Wed 04:30PM-06:00PM Stella Room (7-338)

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

"The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"

January 16, 2013 4:30pm-6pm

Stella Room (MIT Building 7-338)

Speaker: Priyanka Borpujari

Priyanka Borpujari will discuss her featured photography exhibit “The Human Cost of India’s Race for Development” displayed in Rotch Library's (7-228) exhibition space.

While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India a superpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers - even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the 'hidden civil war in India', Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, reports and photographs from the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.

A reception and tour of the exhibit  will follow the discussion.

Cosponsored by MIT Center for International Studies, MIT-India and MIT Libraries

The event was funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT India Program, Libraries
Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, ROCHOA@MIT.EDU


THE LAST RESORT: DISASTER RELIEF METHODOLOGIES FOR A NEW CENTURY

Sam Magee, Coordinator of Student Art Programs, Sam Jacobson, Masters Student SA and P

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

 A THINK TANK FOR MASS PRODUCED DISASTER RELIEF HOUSING

 

DESIGN CHARRETTE AND SEMINAR. The Last Resort is an opportunity to get involved in a grassroots disaster relief housing strategies think tank, to be based at MIT. Participants will address the functional requirements, design parameters, and models for social, political, and economic engagement for emergency shelter management adaptable to twenty first century realities at local and global scales.  Focused on the catalyzation of a new higher-education-centered focus on architecture’s material and social engagement in contexts of extreme volatility, The Last Resort aims to produce usable and radically pragmatic architectural prototypes as well as instigate a new, emergent, scholarly network of collaboration around disaster relief strategies, during this year’s IAP.

 

Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Jan/07 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM W20-429, Bring your laptop
Jan/14 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM Location TBD
Jan/21 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM Location TBD
Jan/28 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM Location TBD

Sam Magee - Coordinator of Student Art Programs, Sam Jacobson - Masters Student SA and P


Thursday Intro to Ceramics

Caroline Chopko, MIT Student

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

This class is taught by MIT student Caroline Chopko, she is also an accomplished SAA ceramics member. The class will cover the basics of ceramics and wheel throwing.

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association, Office of the Arts
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Jan/10 Thu 07:00PM-09:30PM Location TBD
Jan/17 Thu 07:00PM-09:30PM Location TBD
Jan/24 Thu 07:00PM-09:30PM Location TBD
Jan/31 Thu 07:00PM-09:30PM Location TBD

Caroline Chopko - MIT Student


Totally Teapot

Sam Magee

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: see arts.mit.edu/saa
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Oval, wavy, stretched and crazy, the teapot is a wonderful subject that teaches us a balance between creativity and functionality. In this 4 week workshop we will explore unusual forming techniques and surprising surface treatments that take us beyond the "round". Would you like one lump or two?

 

 

Visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register.

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, x3-4004, sammagee@mit.edu


Totally Teapot

Jan/08 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Jan/15 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Jan/22 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431
Jan/29 Tue 04:00PM-06:30PM W20-431

Darrell Finnegan - SAA teacher


Tuesday Intro to Digital Photo A

Greg Kuperman, SAA teacher

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Do you love taking photographs? Maybe you look at someone else's photos, and you think, "Wow, that is amazing... I wish I knew how to do that!" Perhaps you sometimes get a great shot, and you want to know how to do so more consistently? In this class, we go over digital photography from start to finish; all the components to give you the tools to create really great photographs will be covered. We begin by understanding how to use a digital camera; no more auto mode! We then study all the pieces that make a photograph what it is: exposure, composition, lighting, etc. Finally, we go over how to turn a picture you like into a photograph you love by using post-processing, a secret weapon of many great photographers!). By the end of this class, you will be able to begin answering the question: "What makes a photograph good?", and you will be well on your way to getting the great photos that you love!

 

Visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Digital Photo A

Jan/08 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431
Jan/15 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431
Jan/22 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431
Jan/29 Tue 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431

Greg Kuperman - SAA teacher


Tuesday Intro to Digital Photo B

Greg Kuperman

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for materials and instruction visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Do you love taking photographs? Maybe you look at someone else's photos, and you think, "Wow, that is amazing... I wish I knew how to do that!" Perhaps you sometimes get a great shot, and you want to know how to do so more consistently? In this class, we go over digital photography from start to finish; all the components to give you the tools to create really great photographs will be covered. We begin by understanding how to use a digital camera; no more auto mode! We then study all the pieces that make a photograph what it is: exposure, composition, lighting, etc. Finally, we go over how to turn a picture you like into a photograph you love by using post-processing (the secret weapon of many great photographers!). By the end of this class, you will be able to begin answering the question: "What makes a photograph good?", and you will be well on your way to getting the great photos that you love!

 

visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Digital Photo B

Jan/09 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-429
Jan/16 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-429
Jan/23 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-429
Jan/30 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-429

Greg Kuperman


Twenty Classic French Films

Randall Warniers, Visiting Scientist

Feb/01 Fri 03:00PM-04:00PM E15-363

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31


The French invented cinematography in the 19th century, and they have pioneered important developments in cinema ever since. This one-hour IAP class will discuss twenty of the most successful and influential French films, from the silent era to the present day, and describe why you should see them. The class will communicate the richness, power, variety, and beauty of French cinema in all its forms, including comedies, dramas, musicals, histories, art films, gangster films, and film noir. We won’t watch the films in class, but all are available on DVD, and every attendee will take away a list of the twenty selected films for future reference. If you’ve ever been moved by the indefinable je ne sais quoi of French cinema, or if you want to learn more about Jean Gabin or Catherine Deneuve, or if you are looking for a good existential drama for a cold winter night, then this is the class for you.

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Taya Leary, tleary@mit.edu


Twenty Classic Silent Films and Why They Are Good for You

Randall Warniers, Visiting Scientist

Jan/25 Fri 03:00PM-04:00PM E15-363

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24

The world was reminded last year of the power and beauty of silent cinema when the Michel Hazanavicius film "The Artist" won both the French Cesar and the American Oscar as Best Picture of the Year. This one-hour IAP class will discuss the thirty-year tradition of silent cinema and give twenty examples of the most interesting films made during that period, by artists such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Ernst Lubitsch, King Vidor, F.W. Murnau, Rene Clair, and Luis Bunuel. We'll also discuss the technological progress of cinema from its earliest days as a curiosity in nickelodeons to the artistic upheaval that occurred during the transition to the sound era. We won’t watch any of the films in class, but all are available on DVD, and every attendee will take away a list of the twenty selected films for future reference.   

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Taya Leary, E15-363, tleary@mit.edu


Two 9/11 Truth Documentaries from AE911Truth.org

Dave Slesinger, MIT Alum

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

We will view two movies, made from Architects&Engineers for 911Truth (ae911Truth.org), one each night, about  what really happened on 9/11, and then discuss them.

Learn about the evidence behind this tragedy as presented by professional architects and engineers who will demonstrate that it could not possibly have happened in the way that we've been told.  The films avoid speculation and discuss evidence of what has become the most significant event of our era.

 

Contact: Dave Slesinger, davidslesinger@yahoo.com


9/11 Blueprint for Truth

Jan/08 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM 56-114

Highly praised multimedia presentation by San Francisco Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA.  Presents evidence of explosive controlled demolition of the three World Trade Center high-rise buildings on 9/11.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?visTGualnr9A

 

Dave Slesinger - MIT Alum


9/11 Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak

Jan/22 Tue 07:00PM-10:00PM 56-114

Experts in high-rise architecture, structural engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, explosives and demolition give you their professional expertise on 9/11. It's not conspiracy, it's forensics.  Most viewed & shared for weeks on PBS nationally.

Eight experts in the workings of the human mind explain why this seems so difficult for so many of us to process.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isTGualn9A

Dave Slesinger - MIT Alum


Wednesday Intro to Ceramics C / Super Bowls

Sam Magee

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Class begins with getting aquainted with the ceramic studio. All the clay basics will be covered while constructing/designing wheel thrown and handbuilt bowls. Class ends with the glazing of your work and the admiration of your finished pieces.

 

visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Wednesday Intro to Ceramics C

Jan/09 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Jan/16 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Jan/23 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431
Jan/30 Wed 04:30PM-07:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello - SAA teacher


Wednesday Intro to Ceramics D / Super Bowls

Sam Magee

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Class begins with getting aquainted with the ceramic studio. All the clay basics will be covered while constructing/designing wheel thrown and handbuilt bowls. Class ends with the glazing of your work and the admiration of your finished pieces.

 

visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Wednesday Intro Ceramics D Super Bowls

Jan/09 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/16 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/23 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431
Jan/30 Wed 07:30PM-10:00PM W20-431

Jason Pastorello


Wednesday Intro to Digital Photography C

Greg Kuperman

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Fee: $80.00 for instruction and materials visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register

Do you love taking photographs? Maybe you look at someone else's photos, and you think, "Wow, that is amazing... I wish I knew how to do that!" Perhaps you sometimes get a great shot, and you want to know how to do so more consistently? In this class, we go over digital photography from start to finish; all the components to give you the tools to create really great photographs will be covered. We begin by understanding how to use a digital camera; no more auto mode! We then study all the pieces that make a photograph what it is: exposure, composition, lighting, etc. Finally, we go over how to turn a picture you like into a photograph you love by using post-processing (the secret weapon of many great photographers!). By the end of this class, you will be able to begin answering the question: "What makes a photograph good?", and you will be well on your way to getting the great photos that you love!

 

Visit arts.mit.edu/saa to register.

Sponsor(s): Student Art Association
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Intro to Digital Photo C

Jan/09 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431
Jan/16 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431
Jan/23 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431
Jan/30 Wed 05:30PM-08:00PM W20-431

Greg Kuperman


Workflow Clinic

Randall Warniers, Visiting scientist

Jan/30 Wed 01:00PM-03:00PM E15-363

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29

Establishing an effective digital photography workflow from image acquisition to image manipulation to image output is an essential component of good digital photography.

This two-hour IAP seminar—a companion to Camera Clinic—will present useful procedures and techniques that can help you organize, optimize, edit, and communicate your photographs. We will examine ways to archive original image files, establish backups, develop naming conventions, add keywords, choose an image editing application, understand image file formats, implement color management, adjust color and tonal values, and prepare images for output either in print or online.

Bring your digital camera (small, medium, or large) to the seminar.

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Taya Leary, TLEARY@MIT.EDU