MIT Visual Arts Program
About this original series
The MIT Visual Arts Program hosts Monday Nights @ VAP every Fall and Spring term at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fall 2008 Lectures series entitled "This is Tomorrow? Urban Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia" is a cross-disciplinary lecture series that includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and technology from around the world. These speakers will start a discourse to imagine tomorrow's urban living conditions. Speakers include: Pia Maria Ahlback, Ute Meta Bauer, Regina Bittner, Stefano Boeri, Ingrid Book and Carina Heden Yvonne P. Doderer, Lukas Feireiss, Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Armin Linke Nicholas Makris, Peter Marcuse, Lucy Orta,Bartolomeo Pietromarchi Philippe Rekacewicz, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and AbdouMaliq Simone. This lecture series directed by Ute Meta Bauer in collaboration with Yvonne P. Doderer, Amber Frid-Jimenez, and Lisa Hickler.The VAP Spring 2008 lecture series entitled "Zones of Emergency" (ZOE) is a collaboration between MIT Visual Arts Program and artists, technologists, theorists and practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and fields. The series is co-curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Amber Frid-Jimenez, and Jae Rhim Lee.
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Episodes of MIT Visual Arts Program
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Jae Rhim Lee - FEMA Trailer Project
Jae Rhim Lee is a Visiting Lecturer and alumna of the MIT Visual Arts Program. She also directs the FEMA Trailer Project. Her artistic practice includes N=1=0=Infinity, a post-apocalyptic, urban eco-burial system. The FEMA Trailer Project transforms one of the 94,000 surplus trailers into an alternative vehicle, to be donated to a community or non-profit organization. The FEMA Trailer has come to symbolize many of the environmental, social, economic, and administrative challenges associated wi...
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Release date
May 10, 2009
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Runtime
46:07
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Wendy Jacob - Autism Studio
Wendy Jacob is an artist and research associate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. She directs the newly-established Autism Studio in the MIT Visual Arts Program. Since 1989, she has also been part of the artists? collaborative Haha, whose site-based projects and public interventions have been shown internationally. Autism Studio is conceived as a multi-disciplinary studio where new and creative responses to living with autism are developed. In the United States, the prevalence of...
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Release date
May 10, 2009
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Runtime
34:38
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Jegan Vincent de Paul - Community Grid Project
Jegan Vincent de Paul is a second-year graduate student in the MIT Visual Arts Program. His current work deals with global energy access. With a background in architecture, Vincent de Paul has worked with Lot-ek, New York and Ai Wei Wei, Beijing. Project collaborators (UROPs Rachel Cheney and Jennifer Tran, and CMS graduate student Jason Rockwood) will also be present. The Community Grid Project envisions a novel utilization of advances in ultracapacitor technology: using human labor to close ...
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Release date
May 10, 2009
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Runtime
33:15
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Gediminas Urbonas-Ruta Remake
Gediminas Urbonas is a newly-appointed Associate Professor in the MIT Visual Arts Program who began his artistic practice in Vilnius, 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. Their approach embraces a flexible array of disciplines, utilizing old and new media practices.
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Release date
Apr 8, 2009
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Runtime
01:10:26
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Sebastian Seung
A revolution is happening in neuroanatomy, the study of the brain?s structure. Modern neuroanatomists are generating images that reveal the full complexity of the brain?s neural network using machines that slice brains into thin sections, and microscopes that see at the nanoscale. Seung?s lab is developing artificial intelligence that will analyze the images automatically to extract connectomes, maps of all connections between neurons in a brain. Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscienc...
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Release date
Apr 8, 2009
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Runtime
01:23:42
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Amber Frid-Jimenez
Frid-Jimenez will address the dynamic between people and machines in distributed networks, including CLI-mate, a project in development with conceptual artist Mel Chin composed of a networked platform that aims to create an intense personal relationship between individuals and global climate change. Frid-Jimenez is an artist, technologist, and Visiting Lecturer at the MIT Visual Arts Program, Rhode Island School of Design, and Brown University. Frid-Jimenez is a graduate of the MIT Media Labor...
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Release date
Apr 8, 2009
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Runtime
35:16
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Joe Dahmen - Bodega Algae
Joe Dahmen is an architect whose work engages resource and energy consumption in the design of space and the infrastructure that supports it. He is Chief Executive Officer of Bodega Algae LLC. Dahmen has pioneered new construction techniques for the use of rammed earth structures in New England, consults on projects internationally, and teaches sustainable design at the Boston Architectural College. He received a Master of Architecture degree from MIT in 2006.
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Release date
Mar 17, 2009
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Runtime
38:07
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Armin Linke
Armin Linke based in Milan and Berlin, is a new affiliate of the MIT Visual Arts Program. He is a multi-media artist working in video, photography, sound, interactive installation spaces and design, combining different mediums to blur the border between fiction and reality. He is working on an ongoing archive on human activity and the most varied natural and man-made landscapes. His multimedia Installation about the contemporary Alpine landscape was awarded at the 9th Architecture Venice Bienn...
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Release date
Mar 17, 2009
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Runtime
01:09:20
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Carlo Ratti
A designer, engineer and agit-prop proponent, Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. He also practices architecture in Turin, Italy. His work has been shown at many venues, including the Venice Biennale (2004, 2006 and 2008), the Graz Kunsthaus (2005), the Design Museum in Barcelona (2008), the World Expo (2008) and MoMa the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2008)
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Release date
Mar 17, 2009
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Runtime
36:03
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Ingrid Book & Carina H?den
Book and Hed?n have shared a collective artistic practice for more than a decade and their project Military Landscapes has been invited by the Bergen Kunsthall as the annual Bergen Festival exhibition 2008. Stories for Empty Shop Windows was the title of their solo show for the Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria, 2007.) The artist duo presented News from the Field/Ocampo as the official Norwegian Representation at the 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo, the same year they participated at the 3rd berlin bie...
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Release date
Dec 5, 2008
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Runtime
01:32:03
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