Overview

The Work and Research section offers exhibition histories, videographies, bibliographies, project descriptions, and documentation of work by VAP faculty, graduate students, and alumni. Documentation of coursework created by MIT undergraduate and graduate students in VAP subjects can also be viewed here.

The Visual Arts Program faculty is composed of an internationally renowned group of practicing artists. Areas of research include: urban and architectural interventions, anti-monuments and new instruments of collective memory, design of body wear and nomadic devices, dissimulation in autobiography and self-presentation, institutional critique, the fluid boundaries of reality and fiction in documentary, performance and myth, history and memory in photography, the relationship of new digital media to performance, the exploration of site and relative social positions, and issues of ambulation and identity.

Graduate students are encouraged to develop their own artistic vision while studying in the Visual Arts Program and to freely explore the unparalleled technological and informational resources of the MIT environment. The eclectic and self-directed approach is exemplified by the innovative and disparate works of VAP graduate students and perhaps in more sophisticated form by alumni work.

Undergraduate students come to the Visual Arts Program from a variety of academic backgrounds at MIT including architecture, engineering, aeronautics, and comparative media studies. These heterogeneous backgrounds contribute to a body of work unlike that found in a more traditional art department.

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