Exhibits

Television, as good as it is—high definition, vivid and bright—is viewed in two dimensions, but for years futurists have wanted to bring three dimensional life to viewers through a television set. Solutions to this challenge have remained elusive, but research at MIT has now put a consumer friendly system of 3D TV within reach. The exhibit at the MIT Museum will include a demonstration of the new system. This installation is a part of the MIT Museum's new ongoing "Sampling MIT" exhibit.

Biology inspires Neri Oxman. Working at the interface of environmental design, science, and art, Oxman is inventing novel ways to design, fabricate, assemble, and maintain building "skins" so they can respond to load, light, and heat simultaneously. Think buildings that breathe, sweat, and grow. "I believe that, within two decades, buildings will be designed and constructed as biological tissues," says Oxman. (photo credit: Mikey Siegel)

This exhibition at the MIT Museum explores the social potential of new communication technologies. Art installations and research projects by the Sociable Media Group challenge visitors to think about the rapidly changing world of social interaction and the ramifications for the future.  more ›

Tod Machover's opera Skellig opened to full houses, standing ovations, and rave reviews in its premiere performances from November 24–29, 2008 at the Sage Gateshead (Newcastle, UK). The Times (London) says Machover “captures the tale's eerie essence... while remaining accessible and fun”, the Telegraph (London) calls it “alluring and intriguing,” while the Herald (Glasgow) calls it “nothing less than a dramatic expression of the spiritual sustenance of music.”

Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information.  more ›

A showcase of work by eighty American designers, the second installment of the National Design Triennial included both conceptual and realized objects from current and emerging leaders in a variety of design fields. The only exhibition of its kind in the country, the Triennial series celebrates the technological innovations, artistic evolution, and cultural impact of design.  more ›

This piece ran at the ICA gallery in Boston from January 22nd to April 27th of 2003. During that time, a camera and a microphone captured the myriad of images and sounds produced during the exhibition.  more ›

From Nov. 7-20, 2001, the Boston Lyric Opera presented the Boston premiere of "Resurrection," with a libretto written by music and theater arts Lecturer Laura Harrington and music by Professor of Music and Media Tod Machover.  more ›

In conjunction with the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park presented Flights of Fantasy, an interactive media exhibition from April 7 through May 28, 2001. Flights of Fantasy is an installation about the future of storytelling. How will technology change the way we tell our tales?

The Lab’s Tangible Media group will hold its first large-scale exhibition at the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan, June 23–July 9, 2000.  more ›

Throughout the winter, from dusk until 2:00 a.m. the MIT Museum presents Luminous Windows: Holograms for the 21st Century, an exhibition of contemporary, 3-dimensional holographic artworks displayed in the windows viewable only from outside the Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery, on the street and sidewalks of Massachusetts Avenue.  more ›

The exhibition is distinguished by its focus on the research and experimentation of artificial intelligence as much as the excitement of the final product. The moment visitors enter the exhibition, they are participating in research at MIT.  more ›

Holography: The Light Fantastic is on ongoing exhibit featuring an awe-inspiring sampling of twenty-three historic holograms from the MIT Museum holography collection—the world's largest. Scientific and artistic applications of holography in diverse fields such as medicine, engineering, and retailing as well as architecture, portraiture and abstract art are represented.