COLLISION - Monday Nights @ VAP Lecture Series - Spring 2009
Collision is a cross-disciplinary lecture series
that examines the intersection of research in
science, technology and contemporary art. This
event pairs current research from the MIT Visual
Arts Program with cutting edge research in other
disciplines including mobile communication
design, neuro-science, and robotics. The kick-off
event introduces research-based artistic practice,
presenting three current projects initiated in and
supported by the MIT Visual Arts Program and the
MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P).
Time & Location:
Mondays, from 7-9 pm
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg N51, Room 337 on the 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
For info call
617-253-5229
We are located four blocks from the Central Square MBTA station (Red Line) as you walk toward Boston and the Charles River.
Past Monday Nights @ VAP Lecture Series
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Lectures on TechTV
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/vap
available as podcasts
April 13:
Panel discussion - pdf
At the MIT Museum Epstein Innovation Gallery, 265 Mass Ave. A panel discussion about the inducement of pleasure, fantasy fulfillment, and the mediation of
intimacy in a socially-networked gaming paradigm such as World of Warcraft (WOW).
April 6:Brain, Body, Networks - pdf, Amber Frid-Jiminez, Lecturer, MIT Visual Arts Program; Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics at the MIT. His lab uses experimental and computational methods for studying the structure and function of the brain's neural networks.
March 9: Bio-Diversity - pdf
Gediminas Urbonas, Joe Dahmen
Gediminas Urbonas is an Associate Professor in the MIT Visual Arts
Program who began his artistic practice
in Lithuania. There he shares
an artistic collaboration with Nomeda
Urbonas. Together they founded the
JUTEMPUS interdisciplinary art program,
a model for social and artistic collaboration.
Joe Dahmen is an architect whose work engages
resource and energy consumption
in the design of space and the infrastructure
that supports it.
March 2: Tracking Trash - pdf
Armin Linke and Carlo Ratti collaborate on Tracking Trash, a project that will explore how pervasive technologies and contemporary art can help expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability.
February 28: Energy, Community, Communication - pdf,
Jegan Vincent de Paul presents Community Grid Project.
Wendy Jacob presents Autism Studio,
Jae Rhim Lee presents FEMA Trailer Project
