The Invisible College: Color Confinement
Part of the MIT symposium “Unfolding Intelligence: The Art and Science of Contemporary Computation”
Premiere April 6-May 3, 2021
Details surrounding the project
A multi-part transmedia artwork by Matthew Ritchie.
The Invisible College, created by 2018–21 Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist Matthew Ritchie at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, incorporates the many dimensions of the university—social, material, intellectual, technological—from the informal conversations to the new technologies being developed in the labs. In exploring the Institute as both an information space and a physical one, Ritchie captures those states of turbulence, chaos, and indeterminacy—the rush between classes, or the blurry moment before a picture sharpens into legibility—sketchy zones that, as he says, create “the most generative space for the radical rethinking of reality.”