In light of President Reif’s announcement on March 10th regarding COVID-19, this event has been CANCELED.
On behalf of Music and Theater Arts and the MIT Community, I apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your support in Music and Theater at MIT. If you have questions or would like further information, please contact performance@mit.edu
As the 2018–20 Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist, Matthew Ritchie creates a new transmedia work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of MIT artists, faculty, and students. This new collaborative work takes inspiration from the “invisible college” of MIT: the interactions, discussions, and thought processes that take place outside of the formal classroom and administrative structure of the Institute.
The Invisible College takes shape as a site-specific installation, VR experience, and music by Evan Ziporyn. The visuals and soundscape draw on datasets representing scales of the universe—from nanoparticles to dark energy—reinterpreted by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a class of machine learning systems.
Dark Energy: A Space Opera features local musicians performing new compositions by Evan Ziporyn.
