Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan's poem "States," projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building.
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan's poem "States," projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building.
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan's poem "States," projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building.
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan's poem "States," projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building.
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan's poem "States," projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building.
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and the complete text of Kevin McLellan's poem "States," projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building.
Kevin McLellan is the author of Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize, selected by Alexandria Peary), in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection, selected by Timothy Liu), Ornitheology, Tributary, Round Trip, and the book objects Hemispheres and [box], which reside in several special collections, including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. His videos have appeared in numerous film festivals, including the Berlin Short Film Festival, Flickers' Rhode Island Film Festival, the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival (where "Dick" won Best Short Form Short), and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. McLellan lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ryan Aasen is an artist, researcher, and educator broadly interested in the politics of media technologies. He was an artist-in-residence at Triangle, an MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative fellow, and a Northern Lights.mn Art(ists) on the Verge fellow. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has taught art and technology courses at MIT, Parsons, and Stevens Institute of Technology. Aasen is based in New York City.
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This project is created in collaboration with Ryan Aasen and supported by a grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.