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Critical Matter Group
A number of Media Lab community members will participate in the inaugural Artfinity festival, an Institute-wide event featuring the work of artists from MIT and beyond. In the following weeks, the festival will offer more than 80 free events. All are free and open to the public.
February 28 - March 16
MIT Architecture and MIT Space Exploration Initiative
Venue: MIT Media Lab, Building E14 Lobby
Experience MIT's upcoming lunar mission from within a structure whose design echoes the moon's basalt-rich terrain.
February 28 - March 16
Local Tribal Leaders, MIT Indigenous Faculty, Devora Barrera Gonzalez, Claudia Tomateo, and Catherine D'Ignazio
Venue: Lobby 7
Rename/Reclaim MIT is a project crafted and developed by two Indigenous graduate students and their academic advisor. This initiative emerged as a campus intervention for Indigenous Peoples' Day, featuring two actions that rename spaces on MIT's campus to honor Indigenous peoples and reclaim the campus as Indigenous space.
February 15 | 1:00–3:30pm
Venue: Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building W18
Join MIT Music faculty, staff, and students for the public opening of the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT. A concert will be held in the evening at 7:30pm. The building will become the home for a new, multidisciplinary MIT graduate program in music technology and computation. Faculty members include Media Lab alumni Anna Huang (Music Mind and Machine) and Eran Egozy (Opera of the Future).
February 28 | 7:00–8:30pm
Danielle Wood, Kenyon Adams, Jennifer Newman, Paul Lieber, and Doug Segars
Venue: MIT Media Lab 3rd Floor Atrium
Join Professor Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, for a choreopoem exploring our view of Earth from space. This multimedia performance combines spoken word, music, and dance to examine concepts of space through the writings of nineteenth-century African American poets and abolitionists, revealing a perspective of home visible only through satellite imagery.
March 12 - 14 | Beginning at dusk
Behnaz Farahi
Venue: Exterior of MIT Dome
What if the MIT Dome could look back at us, sharing dreams and revealing stories of struggle and triumph within?
Per ardua ad astra—"Through difficulties to the stars"—captures this project's vision: transforming the Dome into a living canvas that reflects the resilience and aspirations of those who have shaped, and been shaped by, the MIT experience.
March 13 | 6:00pm and 8:00pm
Ji Hye Jung, Tod Machover, and Ana Schon
Venue: MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor Multi-Purpose Room
Moving Music is a presentation of two unusual premieres created at—and performed in—the MIT Media Lab. Here...NOW by Ana Schon invites audiences to voyage through the Media Lab building, exploring the relationship between space-and-sound. MAICE by Tod Machover is an exploration of the power and limits of AI to mediate between two contrasting instruments—marimba (virtuoso Ji Hye Jung) and cello (the composer)—pulling towards extreme juxtaposition before arriving at a surprising synthesis. Audiences will be invited to try the marimba/AI system in between performances.