"Universities are at once places of higher learning- the search for knowledge unhampered by commercial responsibility- and full of opportunity. And yet often, the physical space of the campus, the academic landscape, tells us that they are structured, rigid environments whose administrators are often out of touch with how physical traditions affect classroom culture and pure research. What I have tried to capture in the images is both a severe beauty - the light and subtleties of surface that continue to give me hope - and the emptiness of these spaces of learning, rich with promise."

ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible.

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning.