Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

MIT established the Center for Art, Science & Technology in 2012, with the broad mission of creating new opportunities for art, science, and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge, and discovery. Partnering with laboratories, academic departments, faculty, researchers and students, CAST has since that time sponsored a wide variety of projects, including an ongoing Visiting Artist program that fosters robust collaborations between artists from a numerous disciplines with scientists, engineers, and technologists. What creates a successful collaboration? How is it defined and measured, what principles and models might be gleaned? This talk examines three such residencies: Agnieszka Kurant, Matthew Ritchie, and Tomas Saraceno.

About Evan Ziporyn

Evan Ziporyn joined the MIT faculty in 1990, he is currently Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music & Faculty Director of the Center for Art, Science & Technology. A composer/conductor/clarinetist, he has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma & Silkroad, Maya Beiser, Iva Bittova, Terry Riley, Don Byron, Wu Man, & Philip Glass. He holds degrees from Yale & UC Berkeley. He received a Fulbright in 1987, founded Gamelan Galak Tika in 1993, and presented his opera A House in Bali at BAM Next Wave in October 2010. From 1992-2012 he was music director and producer for the Bang on a Can Allstars. He has also recorded and toured with Paul Simon (You're the One) and the Steve Reich Ensemble, sharing a 1998 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance.

Watch a recording of this talk (external link)