| Organization Name: | The Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT |
| URL: | http://www.cavs.mit.edu |
| E-Mail: | lrharris@mit.edu |
| Contact(s): | Larissa Harris |
| Contact: | Larissa Harris |
| Street 1: | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, N52-390 |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Zip: | 02139 |
| Phone: | 617 254 4415 |
| Fax: | 617 258 8831 |
| Last Update: | 11/10/05 |
Mission Statement: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies is a community for contemporary art in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Center commissions and produces new artworks, acting as an artist’s advocate and co-producer in the context of MIT. A portal to MIT’s enormous range of academic and research disciplines, the Center provides an integrating structure for ground-breaking art projects that involve non-art disciplines, as well as those which fuse art and pedagogy in innovative ways.Established in 1967 by Gyorgy Kepes, in its first decade the Center provided long-term appointments to artists such as Maryanne Amacher, Stan van der Beek, Lowry Burgess, Peter Campus, Charlotte Moorman, Nam Jun Paik, Yvonne Rainer, Alan Sonfist and many others. In 2004-2005, the Center embarked on an ambitious revitalization program. Visits by twelve artists including Marjetica Potrc, 16 Beaver Group, Seth Price, Miranda July, and Michael Smith doubled as site visits, "seeding" proposals for long-term residencies in the future. In 2005-2006, the visitor series continues while the Center produces two major new projects and builds new positions into its working community of artists. |
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