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...arts are flourishing at Harvard; and not where one might readily think. Far from the departments of music and Visual and Environmental Sciences, another artistic culture is thriving-—in the fields of psychology, government, and mathematics. Professors Steven Pinker, Andrea L. Campbell, Noam D. Elkies, Benedict H. Gross, and John D. Boller have breached the boundaries of their respective fields to dabble in music and the fine and dramatic arts...
...taken pictures of diverse locations ranging from Cambridge, Mass. to New Zealand. Once in graduate school, Professor Pinker noted the links between his psychological research and the art of photography. He says, “One reason that it meshes with my interests in psychology, in particular, [is] visual perception—how do we see a 3-D scene from a 2-D image?—and evolutionary aesthetics-—what are the properties of scenes, faces, and objects that most appeal to people?” Professor Pinker’s photographs have graced...
...pieces in Thoughts Unsaid, now Forgotten, a show of the artist Cerith Wyn Evans’ work currently up at the MIT’s List Visual Art Center, is a black chandelier hanging from the ceiling that blinks poetry in Morse code while the same poetry is simultaneously displayed on an LCD screen hanging on a nearby wall. Another piece is a looped playback of a recording (found by Evans in the MIT Museum archives) of a man engraving students’ names on their slide rules, and yet another is the original 1960s console from MIT?...
...about it: a chandelier blinking poetry in Morse code speaks about language, translation and the poignancy of obsolete technology. Likewise, the recording of slide-rule engravings presents us with the ghostly sound of forty year old writing—paradoxically highlighting language’s status as both a visual and sonic medium and questioning its extension through time. And the radio console is half celebratory monument and half nostalgic relic—both a commemoration of the leading role MIT radio played in exploring revolutionary music in the 1960s and 1970s and a reminder that thirty or forty years...
...theory talk that means: how would an independent community that is learning about theater affect the community that is making theater, and can they coexist? According to Marjorie Garber, chair of the Visual and Environmental Studies department and a member of the Committee on Dramatics that has been considering the issue, any potential theatrical concentration would not infringe on the current autonomy of the student theater community. “Those spaces would not be co-opted or reserved for concentrators,” Garber wrote. Yet an obvious difficulty is waiting in the wings. What if a Performance Studies...