In the central Kresge Commons, large-scale projections transform surfaces with vibrant, animated visuals—all created by students in MIT's Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance class.
In the central Kresge Commons, large-scale projections transform surfaces with vibrant, animated visuals—all created by students in MIT's Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance class.
In the central Kresge Commons, large-scale projections transform surfaces with vibrant, animated visuals—all created by students in MIT's Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance class.
In the central Kresge Commons, large-scale projections transform surfaces with vibrant, animated visuals—all created by students in MIT's Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance class.
In the central Kresge Commons, large-scale projections transform surfaces with vibrant, animated visuals—all created by students in MIT's Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance class.
In the central Kresge Commons, large-scale projections transform surfaces with vibrant, animated visuals—all created by students in MIT's Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance class.
A celebration of technology and creativity, Creative Lumens reinforces MIT's commitment to fostering an environment where innovation and diversity thrive.
In Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance (21T.320), students transform their classroom knowledge into projection-mapped installations addressing urgent themes of sustainability and climate change. Working with Joshua Higgason, associate head of the Theater Arts Program, they create immersive storytelling environments that reimagine physical space.
These site-specific works showcase the transformative power of art and technology working in concert, inspiring a new generation of creators to envision bold solutions for tomorrow's challenges.
Students in Interactive Design and Projection for Live Performance (21T.320)
Joshua Higgason is a video, lighting, scenic, and interactive designer for theater, opera, concerts, and live performances. Recent projects include Hansel und Gretel (projections; Teatro alla Scala); King Arthur (projections; Staatsoper Berlin); Die Dreigroschenoper (projections; Salzburger Festspiele); Nico Muhly's Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) (video, scenic; Utah Symphony); Ira Glass's Seven Things I've Learned Tour (projections); Persona (video and lighting; dir. Jay Scheib); Sufjan Stevens's Carrie and Lowell Tour 2015 (video); Radiolab's Apocalyptical Tour (video, scenic, lighting); Powder Her Face (video; NYC Opera; dir. Jay Scheib); and The Ambassador (video; BAM; dir. John Tiffany). He has designed and consulted for the Builders Association, Big Dance Theater, MoMA, Mass MoCA, Theatre for One/Christine Jones, the Windmill Factory, and TED. He teaches design at MIT.
MIT Music & Theater Arts invites its students to explore artistic disciplines as cultural, intellectual, and personal avenues of inquiry, discovery, and innovation.
Kresge Oval
Between W16-W15
70 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
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The sweeping, thin-shelled concrete roof of Kresge Auditorium (Building W16) takes the form of an eighth segment of a sphere, illustrating Eero Saarinen’s penchant for structural experimentation and bold Modernist geometries—an approach befitting MIT’s institutional orientation toward innovation and technology.
