MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is an academic program and research center which facilitates artist-thinkers’ exploration of art’s broad, complex, global history and conjunction with culture, science, technology, and design via rigorous critical artistic practice and practice-driven theory. This exploration occurs in the program’s academic offerings and the research of faculty, fellows, and guests in individual and collaborative forms and media including cinema, video, sound, performance, photography, experimental media and new genres, conceptual, sculptural, and spatial experiments, writings and publications.

ACT is one of five discipline groups in the Department of Architecture within the School of Architecture + Planning at MIT. ACT offers a highly selective two year graduate degree—Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (SMACT)—and graduate courses for students in other disciplines. On the undergraduate level, ACT offers a discipline stream and a Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) concentration and minor.

Throughout the academic year, ACT hosts a number of public programs which are open to the public, including the well regarded Monday Night Lecture Series.