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.
Joan Jonas in Singapore
First large-scale exhibition in Southeast Asia for pioneering artist and professor emerita
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.
Professor emerita Joan Jonas to represent U.S. at Venice Biennale
A pioneering figure in performance art and video, Jonas will create a multimedia installation for the U.S. Pavilion in Venice
Azra Akšamija: Creating community amid conflict
Exhibit explores how art and architecture can act as vehicles for community making in contexts of conflict and crisis.