For Those Within From Those Abroad is a public presentation of works created during this Fall’s class Artistic Intervention: Creative Responses to Conflict and Crisis. Two group projects on view explore the notion of a gift as a way of responding to situations of conflict and crises from afar. The students
specifically address the people of Minami Sanriku that were severely effected by the  March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan. Please join us in E15-001 (The Cube) on December 5 between 7 and 9 pm to see the gifts produced and the context behind them.

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
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Monday, December 5, 7–9 PM
ACT Cube, E15-001,
Wiesner Building (E15), Lower Level
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Part of the class: Zones of Emergency -
Artistic Interventions: Creative Responses to Conflict and Crisis

Location:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.

Projects on Display
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“A Ritual for Memory”
Human interaction within and with a place makes the place special. Even after a
city is physically destroyed, it remains a place because memories tied to the
place have created an emotional landscape. This work serves as a platform that
provides the people of Minami Sanriku with an opportunity to share their
memories of place with one another and with the world.

Group Members:
Daniela Covarrubias, Graduate – Architecture
Jenine Shaban Kotob, Graduate – Architecture
Adrian Melia, Senior – Physics
Micah Silver, Graduate – Art, Culture and Technology
Kristopher Swick, Senior – Architecture

“There is a Village”
In the midst of crises, children often develop unique methods for healing from
trauma. However, in dealing with the aftermath of many crises, the voice of
children remains silent or unheard. This project, in the form of a play kit,
provides a platform from which children can contribute to the narrative of
their home in the past, present, and future.

Group Members:
Jackee Budesta Batanda, Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow – Center for International Studies
Giacomo Castagnola, Graduate – Art, Culture and Technology
Sei Lee, Graduate – Art, Culture and Technology
Farre Nixon, Senior – Planning
Lily Tran, Junior – Brain and Cognitive Sciences

About the class
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Artistic Intervention: Creative Responses to Conflict and Crisis is co-taught
this fall by Associate Professor and Program Head Ute Meta Bauer and Lecturer
Jegan Vincent de Paul with Teaching Assistant Nadya Volicer.
Click here for the class description.

 

Thanks
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This project is made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for
the Arts at MIT and the d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education.

DIRECTIONS
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Unless otherwise noted, all the events above take place on MIT campus.
Click here for a map of the MIT campus<http://whereis.mit.edu/>.

The lecture series is held in MIT’s Bartos Theater located on the Lower Level of the Wiesner Building (E15) at 20 Ames Street, Building, Cambridge, in close proximity to Kendall Square.

By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.

About ACT
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The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an advanced technological community. ACT faculty, fellows and students engage in advanced visual studies and research by implementing both an experimental and systematic approach to creative production and transdisciplinary collaboration. As an academic and research unit, the ACT Program emphasizes both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. In the tradition of artist and educator György Kepes, the founder of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an advocate of “art on a civic scale,” ACT envisions artistic leadership initiating change, providing a critically transformative view of the world with the civic responsibility to enrich cultural discourse.

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
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