Actor and filmmaker Matt Damon will be 2016 Commencement speaker
Performer who gained fame for his portrayal of a brilliant MIT janitor will address the Class of 2016.
Report: How interactive documentaries represent a new form of innovation in digital journalism
MIT report represents the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.
Accounting class lesson on $2 bill leads to silver screen
Fair-value accounting lesson at MIT has a starring role in upcoming documentary film.
From screen to stage
MIT’s Jay Scheib and Keeril Makan turn the famous film “Persona” into a new opera.
Charif Kiwan, representing Syrian film collective, to speak at MIT
Kiwan to discuss Abounaddara, an anonymous collective of volunteer, self-taught artists who create with the principle of emergency and an attitude of defiance.
3 Questions: Jennifer Light on new media and democracy
MIT historian of technology discusses new work examining “digital citizenship.”
How can one tree tell the story of climate change?
With help from a single red oak, five MIT Knight Science Journalism colleagues explore storytelling as a way to convey the impacts of a changing climate.
MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology receives $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Combined grants provide eight years of funding, among largest gifts received by the arts at MIT.
When logic meets rhetoric
Edward Schiappa has studied reason and rhetoric from ancient Greece to “Will & Grace.”
Manual control
Oblong Industries brings gesture-control technology from Hollywood to corporate conference rooms.
'This is not a ball' spotlights MIT collaboration
New documentary by visiting artist Vik Muniz features MIT alumni and researchers.
AMPS wins New England Emmy Award for “Awakening”
Documentary on music by Jamshied Sharifi ’83 was commissioned to honor the Arab Spring.
MIT AMPS nominated for New England Emmy Award for 'Awakening'
The documentary centers on music commissioned by MIT Music to honor the Arab Spring
Film, form, and feeling
MIT professor’s new book studies formal properties of movies and the structure of our emotions.