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MIT Museum Fall 2022

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers, Artists, Groups, and Companies whose work is on view:

A Counting

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers (all extant)

  • MIT Media Lab
  • Poetic Justice Group (exhibiting artist: Ekene Ijeoma)

Essential MIT

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers (all extant)

  • MIT.nano
  • MIT D-Lab
  • MIT linQ
  • Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
  • Institute for Medical and Engineering Science
  • Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Sloan School of Management
  • Plasma Science and Fusion Center
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Electrochemical Energy Laboratory
  • Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory
  • Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
  • Space Plasa Group
  • Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
  • MIT Libraries

Other Universities, Institutions, and Companies

  • SurgiBox
  • Saathi
  • nQ Medical Inc.
  • Leuko Labs Inc.
  • LiquiGlide Inc.
  • Climate Interactive
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • California Institute of Technology
  • University of Iowa
  • NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
  • Australian National University


Gene Cultures

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers (all extant)

  • MIT Department of Biological Engineering
  • Collins Lab
  • Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
  • Macosko Lab
  • Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at MIT
  • Love Lab
  • MIT Department of Chemistry
  • Shelak Lab
  • MIT Media Lab
  • Sculpting Evolution Group
  • Molecular Machines Group

Other University DLCs, Institutions, and Companies

  • Whitehead Institute
  • Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
  • Harvard Medical School’s Department of Genetics
  • Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
  • Wonder Collaborative / Science Communication Lab
  • Solaris Biotech Solutions
  • Dyno Therapeutics
  • Circe Bioscience
  • Oxford Nanopore
  • Illumina
  • CCS Packard / PerkinElmer Inc.
  • Ginkgo Bioworks

Artists

  • Nonhuman Nonsense
  • Julia Lohmann
  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg and Sissel Tolaas
  • Diana Scherer
  • Center for Genomic Gastronomy
  • Richard Pell
  • Joes Davis and Sarah Khan
  • Pei-Ying Lin
  • Heather Dewey-Hagborg
  • Gabrielle Lamb
  • Charlotte Jarvis
  • Anna Dumitriu and Alex May
  • Ani Liu

Tracing Threads

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

  • MIT Future Heritage Lab
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • MIT Senseable City Lab


Made to Measure

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

Extant DLCs

  • Laboratory for Nuclear Science
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Hobby Shop
  • Former/Defunct DLCs
  • Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
  • Department of Naval Architecture (now part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
  • Heat Laboratory (now the Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory)
  • Department of Meteorology (now Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, was part of Aeronautical Engineering for a while)

MIT Social Groups

  • Lambda Chi Alpha
  • Hobby Shop (Smoot Bar)

External Institutes and Companies

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  • National Geodetic Society (NOAA, NGS)
  • National Technical Laboratories (now Beckman Coulter)
  • James White (Currently Hensoldt Company, though the series of mergers and acquisitions from 1850 to now means that there’s little relationship between the two).
  • John Bliss & Co. (no longer extant)
  • Kimble Glass (now Kimble Chase Life Science and Research Products LLC)
  • The Tintometer Ltd. (no longer extant)
  • Corning
  • A. W. Heynen (no longer extant)

A Life in a Day

Artists

  • Random International


In Concert: Ganson and Cavatorta

Artists

  • Arthur Ganson
  • Andy Cavatorta (Media Lab alumnus)


AI: Mind the Gap

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

  • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
  • Center for Advanced Virtuality
  • Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Computational Cognitive Science Group
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • MCube (Manipulation and Mechanisms) Lab
  • MIT Media Lab
  • Fluid Interfaces Group
  • Affective Computing Group
  • Scalable Cooperation Group
  • Media Arts and Sciences
  • Lincoln Laboratory
  • MIT Libraries
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Interactive Robotics Group
  • Comparative Media Studies/Writing

Other Universities, Institutions, Companies

  • Jibo, Inc.
  • IBM
  • Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company
  • OpenAI
  • Scientific American
  • The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Algorithmic Justice League
  • Johns Hopkins University

To Look and learn: The Creative Photography Laboratory at MIT

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

Former/Defunct DLCs

  • Creative Photography Lab
  • Roxbury Photographers Training Program (not sure if this qualifies as DLC or not)

Artists

  • Walter Chappell
  • Ron Rosenstock
  • Carl Chiarenza
  • Hiro Moriyasu
  • Barbara Morgan
  • Charles Gatewood
  • Jerry N. Uelsmann
  • Ralph Eugene Meatyard
  • Emmet Gowin
  • John Benson
  • Milton Rogovin
  • Judy Dater
  • Ken Josephson
  • Caroline Vaughan
  • Edward Weston
  • Lotte Jacobi
  • Harry Callahan
  • Manuel Alverez Bravo
  • Donald Woodman
  • Ansel Adams
  • Pirkle Jones
  • Arthur Lazar
  • Imogen Cunningham
  • Minor White
  • Starr Ockenga
  • Arno Rafael Minkkinen
  • Melissa Shook
  • Jonathan Green
  • Ron MacNeil
  • Hakim Raquib
  • Omobowale Ayorinde
  • John Posey
  • Gus Kayafas
  • Peter Laytin
  • Linda Benedict-Jones
  • Stephen Milanowski
  • Judith Black
  • Robert Alter
  • Donald Blumberg

MIT Collects – Modeling Everything

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

Extant DLCs:

  • MIT Kavli Institute
  • MIT Media Lab
  • Tangible Media Group
  • MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Isolat group
  • MIT Department of Architecture
  • MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pappalardo Lab
  • MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, Towing Tank Laboratory
  • MIT Department of Biology

Former/Defunct DLCs:

  • MIT Radiation Laboratory
  • MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
  • MIT Media Laboratory
  • Object-Based Media Group
  • MIT Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
  • MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Supersonic Wind Tunnel
  • MIT Center for Space Research

MIT Social Groups

  • Tech Model Railroad Club

Companies and Organizations

  • Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
  • Fisher Scientific Corporation
  • LEGO
  • Polaroid Corporation
  • NASA Marshall Space Center
  • Bayko
  • Scientific Development Corporation
  • Apsco, Inc
  • George Lawley & Son Corp.
  • Thomas Alva Edison Foundation
  • HealthKit
  • Keuffel & Esser
  • Bell Telephone

MIT Collects – Virtual MIT

Social Groups

  • SlPB


MIT Collects – Technology and the Dream

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

  • MIT Office of Design Services
  • “MIT and Slavery” class
  • MIT Black History Project

MIT Social Groups:

  • MIT BSU

Companies and Organization:

  • Disney/Marvel
  • NASA
  • LEGO
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Ebony Magazine

MIT Collects – A Sequence of Actions

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

  • Draper Laboratory
  • MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
  • Allen B. Dumont Laboratories
  • MIT Radiation Laboratory

Companies and Organizations

  • AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation
  • Raytheon Corporation
  • Kollsman Insrument Corporation
  • IBM
  • Rand Corporation
  • System Development Corporation (SDC)
  • NASA
  • The Computer History Museum

MIT Collects – Totally Useless Things

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

  • MIT Media Lab
  • Lifelong Kindergarten Group

MIT Social Groups

  • Tetazoo
  • Delta Kappa Epsilon

Companies and Organizations

  • Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
  • Howe & Ser Moving Company
  • JoyLabz
  • Terrapin Software
  • SparkFun
  • Fort Cherry Elementary Center

MIT Collects – Totally Useless Things

MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers

  • MIT Media Lab
  • Lifelong Kindergarten Group

MIT Social Groups

  • Tetazoo
  • Delta Kappa Epsilon

Companies and Organizations

  • Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
  • Howe & Ser Moving Company
  • JoyLabz
  • Terrapin Software
  • SparkFun
  • Fort Cherry Elementary Center