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Behind the Scenes @ BAI

A series of peeks into the art work behind the artworks

About Behind the Scenes @ BAI

Behind the Scenes @ BAI is the Brown Arts Institute's editorial platform, offering a series of peeks at the art work behind the artworks. BAI presents the culmination of the creative process across many media (the performances, the exhibitions, the screenings), but we also celebrate the evolving, the in-progress, the iterative, and the time, research, and collaboration it takes to bring an idea to life. There's always something happening here: a candid conversation with a visiting scholar, a course visit to a church of robots, a team of specialists reshaping the Main Hall into a whole new venue for the next big show, artists conducting research in the Physical Media Lab. We're here to show you both the method and the madness.

Recent News

James May, a Ph.D. student in Brown's Music and Multimedia Composition program, presented an immersive installation inspired by his time living in New Orleans in April 2026. In a featured video, May describes the project, the ideas that animate him, and how he translated those ideas into eventually there's nowhere.
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Liminal Luminance Illuminates Alumni Artists

This fall, two Brown alumni return to campus to present Liminal Luminance, an exhibition culminating twenty-one years of collaborative making. For one of the alum, it's also a homecoming to a program he helped build.
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The Logic Behind "The Logic of Illogic"

Jeanette Andrews began her PRIZMA Arts & Research Residency at the Brown Arts Institute in the spring. This fall, her experience as an illusionist is informing "The Logic of Illogic", a convening of scholars investigating the nature of reality and belief.
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Welcome Back from BAI

BAI Director Sydney Skybetter welcomes new and returning students to find their creative home at the Brown Arts Institute, and previews some of BAI's courses and programs on offer this fall.