MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

Upcoming Programs
Friday, April 6
Topology of Autonomy. A talk by Silvère Lotringer
Preceded by a tour of community gardens in Boston

Schedule:
9:30a–12:30p Bus Tour: Community Gardens in Boston
(Sold out)
1:30–3:00p Lecture: Topology of Autonomy

Sylvère Lotringer will address the notion of autonomy, its planting, plotting, and propagation as the means to imagine and propose alternative relations to land, history, politics, and art. Lotringer’s talk expands the discourse initiated through the international archive  platform, the exhibition Disobedience: An Ongoing Video Archive. Read more…

Both the talk and the tour are free and open to the public. However, the seats on the tour bus have already been filled.

Seating for the public lecture is on a first-come, first-served basis. No reservation is required.

For more information:
http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/topology-of-autonomy/
disobedience.mit.edu

Location:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
See address below.

Upcoming Lectures
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form

Monday, April 9, 7p

Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Muntadas, Professor of the Practice, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ways these may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. Read more…

For more information:
http://actwebsite.media.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures/2012-spring/

Location:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
Address:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA | MAP

April 23
Sound and Semiocapitalism:
Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real

Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
More info

*For videos of our past lectures, click here.
On View

Azra Aksamija
In group exhibit Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building
Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart
Runs until September 19, 2012

Andrea Frank
Exhibit Systems
Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice | Runs through May 19, 2012
Group exhibit To Extremes: Public Art in a Changing World
MIT | April 20–29, 2012

Renée Green
Lecture: Inhabiting
The Institute for Art, Religion, & Social Justice, NYC | March 29, 2012
MoMA Media Lounge
Museum of Modern Art, NYC | Ongoing

Muntadas
& Cildo Meireles exhibit: Salt & Sugar … No SUGAR, No SALT
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Switzerland | Runs through April 14, 2012
Exhibit: Eleven
Kent Fine Art LLC, NYC | April 28 –June 15, 2012

Angel Nevarez
In group exhibit: Drones at Home
gallery@calit2, La Jolla, CA | Runs through September 14, 2012

Gediminas Urbonas
Presentation of project UTO-PIA
Pan0ra – Art, nature and Politics at National Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Work Split-nik at Art After the End of the World
Discussion Platform for the 1st Kyiv Biennial, Kiev | Feb-May 2012

Publications
Intellectual Birdhouse–Artistic Practice as Research
Co-edited by Ute Meta BauerIncludes articles by Renée Green, Florian Hecker, Michael Schwab, Alise Upitis &
Gina Badger Available for sale at MIT Press Bookstore Online Community

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For further information, contact ACT Public Programs Coordinator Laura Anca Chichisan at [email protected] or 617-253-4415.

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