Events
City as Stage, City as Process brings together speakers from art and (counter) culture, architecture, urbanism, and media technology to discuss such questions as: In what way is the city not a fixed entity, but a process? How do artists and cultural activists reclaim the street, activating the city as backdrop and insisting on public space? What makes a city a city? Who owns the city? How can media technology be designed to intervene in and navigate the city? The MIT Visual Arts Program (VAP) lecture series is directed by Ute Meta Bauer and Amber Frid-Jimenez. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the VAP this term, the lecture series highlights the issues at the core of the academic program and the work and research of the faculty.
Series Blog: Imagining Cities
Time & Location:
Mondays, from 7-9 pm
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg N51, Room 337 on the 3rd fl.
Cambridge, MA 02139
For info call
617-253-5229
NEXT LECTURE
November 9: Fractured City
Angus Boulton
Opening: Krzysztof Wodiczko's The Veteran's Project at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Opening November 17th.
SCREEN, a forum for film and video works-in-progress
hosted by the MIT Visual Arts Program. Held most Fridays in the Joan Jonas Perfomance Hall N51-337, 265 Massachusetts Avenue. Link to SCREEN schedule.
Next SCREEN:
November 6th at 7pm
Rob Todd
Louise Bourque
a little prayer (H-E-L-P) 35 mm (on video) 8 min color
designHQ: Building a Classroom for Community Engineers
Reception:
Sept 22, 5-7pm
MIT Visual Arts Program Courtyard
And Things of That Nature
An exhibition featuring projects developed by graduate students at MIT's Visual Arts Program: Haseeb Waqar Ahmed, Gina Badger, Caitlin Berrigan, Jaekyung Jung, Jin Jung, Matthew Mazzotta, Alexander Rosenberg and Jess Wheelock.
Exhibition pdf
Mills Gallery, BCA
May 15 to June 7
http://www.bcaonline.org
Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts. First prize: Matthew Mazzotta. Third prize: Jess Wheelock. Opening reception May 26, 2009 4-6 pm, W20, Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Armadillo Tour Kick-off
On June 18, Jae Rhim Lee and the MIT Visual Arts will hand-off the Armadillo, a transformed FEMA trailer deployed after Hurricane Katrina, to the Side Street Projects as they embark on a national tour with the Armadillo. Events will be held from 12-5 pm at the Dewey Square Parks in the Rose Kennedy Greenway downtown Boston
Waves and Signs, a conference and workshop on low-frequency vibration with a performance and dance party.
April 24-25, 2009
At the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies
