Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet
Has a blog actually had a significant impact on a building in the process of being designed or built? Associate Dean and Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, Mark Jarzombek, will moderate a discussion between bloggers Javier Arbona and Kazys Varnelis about architectural criticism in an age of digital networks.
MIT Writers Series presents Masha Gessen
Having inherited a heightened risk for cancer, a journalist travels to the front lines of genetics and finds both personal guidance and a fascinating new world of scientific discovery. Gessen will read from her book Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene.
The Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht's play, presented by Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT (CC@MIT) and the Underground Railway Theater, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo first turned his telescope upwards and changed the way human beings thought of their place in the cosmos.
Third Life
Visiting artist Elise Knudson creates a dance for MIT students based on digitized representations of human movement captured from the online world. Third Life is a playful look at human behavior reproduced in digital life and how it reveals assumptions about normality.
Processing Time
Have you ever thought about the aesthetics of code? Join a code jam and competition run by Assistant Professor of Digital Media Nick Montfort, using the computer assembly language developed at MIT. Presentation and awards by Processing authors Ben Fry and Casey Reas.
Exile: The Wealth of Humanity
Mali-raised Paris-based filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, whose films explore the exile experience and the relationship between African and European societies, will be an Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence from April 20 - May 1, researching economic violence in Africa.
Julius Schwartz Lecture
MIT welcomes Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski for a lecture followed by discussion with CMS co-Director Henry Jenkins.
Connections
Works by the Sociable Media Group at the Media Lab explore the social and artistic potential of new communication technologies.
Hollowed
Works by Steve Shada, Cati Vaucelle, and Media Lab Artist-in-Residence Marisa Jahn that examine technology in human interactions.
Felix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist
Models, drawings and photographs from one of the great structural artists of the 20th century. Candela designed and built innovative thin shell concrete roof structures, mostly in Mexico, using the hyperbolic paraboloid geometric form.
Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance
Interested in looking beyond art's traditional aesthetic functions? A solo exhibition of works based on Matthew Day Jackson's research as an Artist-in-Residence includes a book derived from Luminary 1A, the computer codes developed at MIT for the 1969 Apollo 11 space mission to the moon.
Collision: Brain, Body, Networks
What is the connection between neural networks and networked culture? How does analyzing brain activity relate to designing platforms for distributed social action? Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics, and Amber Frid-Jimenez, an artist, technologist, and Visiting Lecturer in the Visual Arts Program, will discuss the connections and dissonances between neural networks and networked culture.
Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti
CAVS Fellow John Bell joins forces with the Music and Theater Arts Department to direct MIT students in a new Dramashop production about the politics of global healthcare in Haiti and the work of Partners in Health, founded by Paul Farmer.
Waves and Signs: A conference and workshop on low-frequency vibration with a performance and dance party.
A joint project by Wendy Jacob and Jackie Lee, with students and faculty from MIT and Gallaudet University, this event incorporates a raised floor that will be activated with sub-audible vibrations to explore the worlds of the hearing and deaf.
Cambridge Science Festival
Are you curious? The Cambridge Science Festival, the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering and math. A multifaceted, multicultural event that makes science accessible, interactive and fun!
Beeline Festival
Three weekends of "New Music You Actually Want to Hear" with Iva Bittova, the Calder Quartet, Paul Lansky, Robert Black, Gutbucket, Ensemble Robot, and Gamelan Galak Tika. Curated by Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth, complete with local honey and food tastings.
Composer John Harbison's 70th Birthday Concert
Harbison's music delights, disturbs, moves, intrigues, enriches, and challenges. The concert will feature performances by his professional colleagues, friends and the MIT Chamber Chorus.
