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: is a hybrid space for news updates, announcements, archival picks, and insights related to our own work and that of our wider community.![](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RGreen_KW_MLY_Commerce-1172x782.jpg)
![Renée Green. Partially Buried, 1996. Chibachrome](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/RGreen_Partially_Buried_Hand-1073x878.jpg)
Renée Green’s Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture at Utah Museum of Fine Arts
September 15, 2024
![Laura Anderson Barbata, Ocean Calling, 2017. Created in collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies, Chris Walker and Jarana Beat, Ocean Calling is a response to the effects of global warming on all forms of life that make the ocean their home. Presented at the United Nations at the first Ocean Conference in 2017. Procession, performance, dance, music, textile arts, costuming, ritual, and protest. Photo: Frank Veronsky.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4_AndersonBarbata_Ocean-Calling-UN-1172x782.jpg)
New Faculty Profile: Laura Anderson Barbata
April 4, 2024
![“Creating Art, Thinking Science,” credit HErickson/MIT](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-23-at-3.07.59-PM-1172x633.png)
Creative Collisions: Crossing the Art-Science Divide
February 23, 2024
![Zhanyi Chen, Artificial Satellite Astrology, 2023. A horoscope of Hurricane Katrina, drew using the positions of meteorological satellites instead of planets. Courtesy of the artist.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/01_satellite_astrology-619x878.jpg)
Zhanyi Chen’s Artificial Satellite Astrology
August 22, 2023
![Renée Green. Space Poem 8.1 (Vide ma tête), 2022-2023, Barnard Library, New York. Installation view. Image: Guang Xu](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/01_RGreen_Space_Poem_8_1_Barnard-1172x878.jpg)
Renée Green Awarded 2023 Orzeck Fellowship at Barnard College, New York
April 25, 2023
![Faruk Šabanović, option5. Installation view.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Faruk-410x878.jpg)
Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Faruk Šabanović
June 14, 2022
![Kwan Q Li, Non-Arrival, Yet, In Proximity. Installation view.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/KQL_Installation-view-1-1172x733.jpg)
Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Kwan Queenie Li
June 13, 2022
![Weihan Jiang, I Am Anxiously Waiting. Video still.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/download-678x878.png)
Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Weihan Jiang
June 10, 2022
![Alejandro Medina, Cloud Forest (Ways of Seeing), video still](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Medina_ACT_03-1172x659.png)
Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Alejandro Medina
June 1, 2022
![Reina Suyeon Mun, SilenceTop, 2022.](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4-1172x802.jpg)
Spring 2022 Final Reviews | Reina Suyeon Mun
May 25, 2022
![Christie Neptune, Ah New Riddim-Performance III (Constructs and Context Relativity), 2022. Single-channel HD video and super 8mm transfer, TRT 10:15mins](http://act.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Spring-2022_Final-Presentation_Video-Still-02-1156x878.jpg)