Floor van de Velde, a master’s candidate in the MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), is attracted to reflective surfaces. She works in her studio a lot at night, when her experimentations in light appear so intensely radiant as to be almost tangible.
We recently caught up with MIT Lecturer and TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits before he headed out to Ars Electronica as a recipient of the [The Next Idea]: Voestalpine Art and Technology Grant for his collaborative project Hyperform.
This week, we visited Tod Machover’s Opera of the Future group (also known as Hyperinstruments). The Opera of the Future group explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression.
This week for Studio/Lab, we met with postdoctoral fellow Zhao Qin and phD candidate Leon Dimas. Qin and Dimas are part of Professor Markus Buehler’s research group in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics
This week for Studio/Lab we visited doctoral student Eric Rosenbaum from the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group. The mission of the Lifelong Kindergarten group is to “develop new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten, expand the range of what people can design, create, and learn.”
The Trope Tank is directed by Nick Montfort, an Associate Professor of Digital Media in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. As a lab for research, teaching, and creative production, the mission of the Trope Tank is to develop new poetic practices and new understandings of digital media by focusing on the material, formal, and historical aspects of computation and language.
This week for Studio/Lab, a new series featuring a glimpse into all the interesting spaces of making and doing around the MIT campus, we’re spotlighting the MIT Media Lab’s Fabrication Lab. Edwina Portocarrero, a doctoral student in the Media Lab’s Object Based Media Group, kindly gave us a tour of both the lab and her personal workspace.
Welcome to the first installment of our new web series, Studio/Lab, featuring a glimpse into all the interesting spaces of making and doing around the MIT campus. First up is the Horvitz Laboratory in MIT’s Biology department.
