After Dark: Artfinity
When:
Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 6:00p -
9:00p
Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 6:00p -
9:00p
Where:
MIT Museum
314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Building E-28
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Drinks, Festivals & Fairs
Event website:
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark
This March we're offering a special edition of our popular After Dark event in collaboration with MIT's Artfinity Festival of the Arts.
As part of Artfinity, this month's After Dark will celebrate the artistic and cultural community at MIT and is free and open to adult members of the public (18+).
Enjoy a variety of hands-on making demonstrations, conversations, and interactive play accompanied by live music and a pop-up cash bar. Come explore, create and connect; whether you're an artist, a tech enthusiast, or simply curious, there's something there for you.
Don't miss this expanded celebration of art in all its forms, including activities available in the museum throughout the evening:
- Live DJ sets
- Food and drink available for purchase
- The galleries are open, including two exhibitions of work by MIT faculty.
- Rania Ghosn's Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age, and exhibition that brings art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and a new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
- Professor and Director of the Art, Culture and Technology program, Azra Akšamija's Hallucinating Traditions is a 5-channel video installation that utilizes AI to envision future iterations of traditional fashion. Akšamija's speculative designs blur cultural and temporal boundaries, prompting viewers to reconsider the notion of "traditional" as a construct of the imagination.
- Engage in a unique drawing experience with a Flash Portrait Session! You'll be paired with a stranger to carefully observe and draw them without looking at your paper or lifting your pencil. This will provide a preview of MIT Face to Face, a collective event and pop-up exhibition inspired by Congregation, an artwork by Es Devlin, the 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts recipient.
- Challenge traditional ideas of solo artistry by embracing play and co-creating new forms alongside artist and MIT graduate student Coco Allred.
- Design textile patterns inspired by plant intelligence and explore how plants adapt to climate change, pollution, and migration with MIT Future Heritage Lab's Telltales of Tide and Terra co-creation project.
- Join us in creating climate critters as we think about sustainability with Interwoven, a data visualization exercise with Sara Wilson, Supreetha Krishnan, and Marwa AlAlaw.
- Take a closer look at Gaze to the Stars by award-winning designer Behnaz Farahi and her team at the Critical Matter Group at the Media Lab, which transforms the MIT dome into a living canvas that reflects the resilience and aspirations of those who have shaped, and been shaped by, the MIT experience. Join Farahi to explore how she is using technology in critical and transformative ways—sparking the imagination, provoking conversation, enhancing perception, augmenting social interaction, and empowering voices that have not been heard. The talk will be introduced by MIT Director Michael John Gorman.
No registration necessary; admission is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Space is limited.
Please note that backpacks and large bags are not permitted. A limited number of free lockers are available on first-come, first-served basis.
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