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Invaders
Invaders on the exterior of MIT Building 57, August 2021.

Artist	Gary Wiley
Year	1981 (1981)
Medium	Wrought iron soft steel Plexiglas marbles paint
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates	42°21′39.61″N 71°5′25.27″W / 42.3610028°N 71.0903528°W / 42.3610028; -71.0903528

Invaders is a 1981 sculpture by Gary Wiley, installed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.^[1]

Description and history

The work was commissioned by MIT Percent-for-Art Funds. Conceived as a "reconfigurable installation", Invaders features four different wrought iron and soft steel butterflies mounted to the exterior of MIT Building 57, "individually articulated with colored and mirrored plexiglass, colored marbles, and fluorescent paint".^[1]

Invaders has been installed on the outside of several campus buildings.^[1] Until 2019, the artwork was installed on the exterior of MIT Building 44.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Invaders". MIT List Visual Arts Center. April 29, 2014.
^ https://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/historicalcommission/pdf/chcmeetingfiles/D1545_history.pdf?la=en ^{[bare URL PDF]}

External links

Invaders at Cuseum

Public art in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Works

Harvard University	Discobolus Night Wall I Robert Stow Bradley Jr. Memorial Statue of John Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Aesop's Fables, II Alchemist Angola Birth of the Muses Elmo-MIT Guennette Invaders La Grande Voile (The Big Sail) Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) Sean Collier Memorial Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 Transparent Horizon TV Man or Five Piece Cube with Strange Hole

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