Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT

Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT The Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT(ACT) is an academic program and research center. Fin

The Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT (ACT) is an academic program and research center which facilitates artist-thinkers’ exploration of art’s broad, complex, global history and conjunction with culture, science, technology, and design via rigorous critical artistic practice and practice-driven theory. This exploration occurs in the program’s academic offerings and the research of facult

y, fellows, and guests in individual and collaborative forms and media including cinema, video, sound, performance, photography, experimental media and new genres, conceptual, sculptural, and spatial experiments, writings and publications. ACT is one of five discipline groups in the Department of Architecture within the School of Architecture + Planning at MIT. ACT offers a highly selective two year graduate degree—Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (SMACT)—and graduate courses for students in other disciplines. On the undergraduate level, ACT offers a discipline stream and a Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) concentration and minor. Throughout the academic year, ACT hosts a number of public programs which are open to the public, including the well regarded Monday Night Lecture Series.

Luca E. Lum | Political Animals & Scatter, Enclosure (The Herd Comes Down to Dream)August 21 – 22, 2026H0thouse, Aliwal ...
08/08/2026

Luca E. Lum | Political Animals & Scatter, Enclosure (The Herd Comes Down to Dream)
August 21 – 22, 2026
H0thouse, Aliwal Arts Centre, Singapore

Political Animals continues artist and writer Luca E. Lum’s (SMACT ’25) exploration into the animal and machine as figures that parse anticipation and catastrophe as part of her larger inquiry about nonhumanity, mediation, and time. - https://mailchi.mp/mit.edu/luca-e-lum-singapore

“If cows didn’t like mustard there wouldn’t be any movies at all.”When student Sophia Chefalo (SMACT ‘26) first encounte...
08/01/2026

“If cows didn’t like mustard there wouldn’t be any movies at all.”

When student Sophia Chefalo (SMACT ‘26) first encountered the claim in a text about photographic history, she stopped in her tracks.

The seemingly strange claim led her down an unexpected path through nineteenth-century chemistry, Kodak archives, agricultural science, animal biology, industrial history, and the material foundations of photography itself.- https://mailchi.mp/mit.edu/sophia-chefalos-journey-through-the-hidden-histories-of-photography

Summer Reading 2026 from MIT NewsEach year, MIT invites its community to share what they are reading and writing. This y...
07/25/2026

Summer Reading 2026 from MIT News

Each year, MIT invites its community to share what they are reading and writing. This year, work by Scott Austin Tirrell, ACT’s Director of Administration and Finance, was included.

Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a good book — and MIT authors have had much to offer in the past year.

- https://mailchi.mp/mit.edu/summer-reading-2026-from-mit-news

07/03/2026
May 13 | Join Renée Green at Bortolami's 55 Walker gallery for a listening event centered on the soundtrack to Green's m...
05/09/2026

May 13 | Join Renée Green at Bortolami's 55 Walker gallery for a listening event centered on the soundtrack to Green's multimedia installation Secret, experienced within the exhibition itself. Gathered in the space where the work lives, a circle of close interlocutors will listen together to the work's script before sharing their responses and reflections sparked by the piece and their ongoing conversations with the artist.
- https://mailchi.mp/mit.edu/renee-greens-secret-listening-event

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