A new shepherd’s staff to lead “the flock” during MIT Commencement
Gifted by Professor Lily Tsai, former chair of the faculty, and designed by Professor Brandon Clifford, the staff is a new, integral part of MIT Commencement.
Turning history of science into a comic adventure
Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna take readers through a series of discoveries in infectious disease.
The art of science and the science of art
“Making Art for Scientists” summer course at MIT invited scientists and engineers to explore new ways to visualize and represent their research.
Communicating across time
TeleAbsence, a project from the MIT Media Lab, probes and imitates the way humans process feelings of belonging, love, and loss.
If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?
MIT postdoc Ziv Epstein SM ’19, PhD ’23 discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
A symbol with a story
The iconic MIT Press colophon symbolizes the legacy of its creator Muriel Cooper, a graphic design pioneer and longtime member of the MIT community.
A design tool to democratize the art of color-changing mosaics
Computational tool from MIT CSAIL enables color-changing cellulose-based designs for data visualization, education, fashion, and more.
STEAM power on the runway
Boston teen designers create fashion inspired by award-winning images from MIT laboratories.
Portraiture at the intersection of art, science, and society
Exhibit at MIT's Koch Institute attempts to make visible the luminary personalities behind major scientific and engineering advances.
“Visualizing the Proton” through animation and film
An art-science collaboration tests the limits of visual technologies.
The MIT Press and Brown University Library launch book series “On Seeing”
The series will examine understudied questions at the intersection of visual culture and subjects such as race, care, decolonization, privilege, and precarity.
The poetry of physics
Condensed-matter theory PhD candidate Makinde Ogunnaike is featured in the Poetry of Science project.
3 Questions: Sheena Vasquez and Christian Loyo on communicating science through poetry
PhD students discuss their participation in The Poetry of Science project and the importance of bringing the arts into science communication.
MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date
Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials.
MIT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas receives the 2018 Kyoto Prize
Artist and scholar cited for her “immeasurable impact” in pioneering the integration of performance art and new media.