Graduate Student Talk: Nikhil Singh

November 7, 2024
Talk / Lecture
MIT Community
A round, distorted image of a woman set within a rectangular frame. A smaller black circle occupies the center of the frame, like an eye or lens around which the image revolves. The woman stands and reaches down toward the camera; the perspective makes it seem like her hands are as big as the entire rest of her body . The texture of grass is visible in the bottom portion of the image, while a building, trees, and sky are visible in the background.

Steina, Summer Salt, 1982 (still). Single-channel video, with sound; 19:10 min. Courtesy the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík

Location
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge, MA 02139
Day & Time
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Admission
Free, but registration required.
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listprograms [at] mit.edu

Join Nikhil Singh, a PhD candidate in the Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab for a conversation around Steina: Playback.

Nikhil Singh will discuss the many relationships that exist in nature and can be made to exist in art between sound and image through the lens of Steina’s video works presented in the space. By extension, he will explore how machines interpret and transform these sensory signals and what this might mean for perception, expression, and technology.

This will be a hybrid event with a live video that can be streamed here at 5:30 PM.

About the Speaker

Nikhil Singh is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab's Opera of the Future group. His work focuses on human-AI interaction and multimodal machine learning across application areas including creative, immersive, and informational media, with a special interest in sound. As an artist and musician, he has co-created musical and multimedia works presented at venues like Moogfest, Mass MoCA, and the international space station. Nikhil was previously an instructor at the Berklee College of Music, where he earned a bachelor's degree focusing on music composition, jazz, and computer music.

Graduate Student Talks

MIT graduate students explore current exhibitions at the List Center through the lens of their own research, background, and interests. Join us for this interdisciplinary lecture series where we dive into how art and research are overlapping on MIT’s campus.

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