A conversation between artist and designer Es Devlin and architect and curator Paola Antonelli about Devlin’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Free and open to the public, but registration (coming soon) is required due to space limitations.
A conversation between artist and designer Es Devlin and architect and curator Paola Antonelli about Devlin’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Free and open to the public, but registration (coming soon) is required due to space limitations.
A conversation between artist and designer Es Devlin and architect and curator Paola Antonelli about Devlin’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Free and open to the public, but registration (coming soon) is required due to space limitations.
A conversation between artist and designer Es Devlin and architect and curator Paola Antonelli about Devlin’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Free and open to the public, but registration (coming soon) is required due to space limitations.
A conversation between artist and designer Es Devlin and architect and curator Paola Antonelli about Devlin’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Free and open to the public, but registration (coming soon) is required due to space limitations.
A conversation between artist and designer Es Devlin and architect and curator Paola Antonelli about Devlin’s wide-ranging artistic practice.
Free and open to the public, but registration (coming soon) is required due to space limitations.
Join artist, designer, and the 2025 Recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT for a public lecture as part of her MIT campus residency.
About the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT
The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT was established in 1974 by Margaret McDermott (1912–2018) in honor of her husband, Eugene McDermott (1899–1973), cofounder of Texas Instruments and long-time friend and benefactor of MIT. The award is presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
The award is bestowed upon individuals whose artistic trajectory and body of work have achieved the highest distinction in their field and indicate that they will remain leaders for years to come. The McDermott Award reflects MIT’s commitment to risk taking, problem solving, and connecting creative minds across disciplines.
Artist Es Devlin (born 1971, London, England) views an audience as a temporary society and often invites public participation in communal choral works. Her canvas ranges from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern, V&A, Serpentine, Imperial War Museum and Lincoln Center to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Olympic Games ceremonies, Super Bowl halftime shows, and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for large-scale stadium concerts.
Devlin is the subject of a major monographic book, An Atlas of Es Devlin, described by Thames & Hudson as their most intricate and sculptural publication to date,and a retrospective exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
In 2020, Devlin became the first female architect of the UK Pavilion at a World Expo, conceiving a building which used AI to co-author poetry with visitors on its 20 meter diameter facade. Her practice was the subject of the 2015 Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design. She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and the University of the Arts London, and is a Royal Designer for Industry at the Royal Society of Arts. She has been awarded the London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, an Ivor Novello Award, doctorates from the University of Bristol and the University of Kent and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
The Council’s programs provide resources to support artistic expression and engagement for the MIT community and are funded by the annual contributions of its members.
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The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT public lecture is presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT.