How the 62 Year Story of Art at MIT Shaped the Media Lab Ethos
▻https://medium.com/@michaelnaimark/how-the-62-year-story-of-art-at-mit-shaped-the-media-lab-ethos-65f3fd43efb6
On the opposite end of the Media Lab complex from the Director’s office resides MIT’s Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT), a long-unrelated program which spent 30 years on opposite side of campus, by choice. In 2010, after the Media Lab tripled its size with an expansion, MIT leadership decided to move ACT into the expanded complex, presumably for more interaction with the Media Lab. While the Media Lab is about “technologies that promise to transform,” ACT is about “critical studies and production.”