23/09/2022
MIT Center of Art, Science & Technology 2022-2023
Announcing our new 2022-2023 CAST Visiting Artists and Faculty Grants
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** MIT CAST is pleased to announce projects for the 2022-23 academic year including cross-disciplinary classes, visiting artists, faculty projects, and international exhibitions.
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2022 CAST Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist
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** Iva Bittová (https://arts.mit.edu/people/iva-bittova/) , Internationally acclaimed multi-genre vocalist/violinist/improvisor/composer
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** Visiting Artist Grants
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** Avery Boddie, music and media program head, MIT Libraries
Visiting Artist: Andreas Refsgaard, Machine Learning and the Arts (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/machine-learning-and-the-arts/)
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** Katerina Cizek and Sarah Wolozin, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Visiting Artist: Jackson 2bears Leween, Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/longhouse/)
Pattie Maes, professor, and Adam Haar, research assistant, MIT Media Lab
Visiting Artist: Carsten Höller, (https://arts.mit.edu/people/carsten-holler/) Dream Hotel (https://arts.mit.edu/people/carsten-holler/)
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Jeff Ravel, professor, MIT History
Visiting Artist Project: Ballet des Porcelaines (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/ballet-des-porcelaines/)
Dan Safer, lecturer, MIT Music and Theater Arts
Visiting Artist Project: The History of Empires (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/the-history-of-empires/)
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** 2022–23 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist
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** Damien McDuffie, Oakland-based creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist
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** Image: The Heart is a Bell, credit Caroline Alden. Architecture at Home, courtesy J. Yolande Daniels, credit Ironside Photography. Marcus McGregor, credit Christopher Hicken. musicBottles, credit NTT ICC. Conceptual sketches, courtesy Gediminas Urbonas. Ballet des Porcelaines, courtesy Oakland Ballet Company.
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https://arts.mit.edu/cast/projects/visiting-artists/
** Mellon Faculty Grants
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** Lydia Bourouiba, associate professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project: A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases
Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor in the Social Sciences, MIT Political Science
Project: Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/ways-of-seeing/)
Rania Ghosn, associate professor, MIT Architecture
Project: Climate Inheritance (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/climate-inheritance/)
Hiroshi Ishii, Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Project: TeleAbsence (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/teleabsence/)
Ana Miljački, professor, MIT Architecture
Project: Bootleg Futures
Jay Scheib, Class of 1949 Professor, MIT Music and Theater Arts
Project: Parsifal
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Spaulding Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Project: Memory Atlas for Repair (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/memory-atlas-for-repair/)
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** Image: Climate Inheritance, courtesy Rania Ghosn.
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https://arts.mit.edu/cast/projects/visiting-artists/
** Fay Chandler Creativity Grant
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** Lara Baladi, lecturer, Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT
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** Project: Anatomy of Revolution (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/anatomy-of-revolution/)
J. Yolande Daniels, associate professor, MIT Architecture
Project: Black City: The Arkansas Edition (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/black-city/)
Charles Shadle, senior lecturer, MIT Music and Theater Arts
Project: Native America: The Choctaw Music of Charles Shadle (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/native-america/)
Anne Whiston Spirn, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Project: Claiming the Future (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/claiming-the-future/)
Ken Urban, senior lecturer, MIT Music and Theater Arts
Project: The Conquered (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/the-conquered/)
Christine Walley, professor, MIT Anthropology
Project: Southeast Chicago Storytelling Project (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/southeast-chicago-archive-and-storytelling-project/)
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** Image: Architecture at Home, courtesy J. Yolande Daniels. Credit Ironside Photography.
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https://arts.mit.edu/people/gediminas-urbonas-swamp/
** International Exhibition and Performance Grants
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** Gediminas Urbonas, The Swamp Observatory (https://arts.mit.edu/people/gediminas-urbonas-swamp/)
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** Using AR to unveil imaginative ecosystems of planned stormwater ponds in a future city district of Visby, Sweden, The Swamp Observatory project enables community members to experience a future in the making and to practice adaptive technologies in support of community resiliency at a local level.
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Image: Conceptual sketches, courtesy Urbonas Studio.
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https://arts.mit.edu/projects/the-deep-time-project/
** Cross-Disciplinary Classes
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** Cristina Alonso Parreño, The Deep Time Project (https://arts.mit.edu/projects/the-deep-time-project/) (4.181)
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** The Deep Time Project on Climate Change course is set under the premise that multi-disciplinary collaboration is a key to solving the great challenges of our time. The course will use the topic of “deep time” as a common ground that brings together in conversation a wide range of disciplines, such as philosophy, science, history, art, cinematography, music, architecture, anthropology, geology, and quantum physics.
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Image: Courtesy Cristina Parreño Alonso.
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