28 Feb Introducing New MIT OpenDocLab Spring 2023 Fellows and Visiting Artists

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Spring has sprung at the MIT Open Documentary Lab! This semester, we’ll welcome three new additions to our community.

headshot of fellow louis massiah standing outside in a blue checked shirt.

Louis J. Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder/director of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia. He joins the Lab and the Co-Creation Studio through the MIT MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program. During his fellowship, he’ll be working on A Community Archive for the Seventh Generation, an exploration of how community knowledge, including narratives preserved in time-based media, can be archived in a way that is accessible, usable, durable, and readable to generations in the future.

 

Sahar Sajadieh is a computational performance artivist (artist + activist) and theorist joining us as a Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of computational arts, artificial intelligence, social justice-oriented design, and performance/media theory. While at the Lab, she’ll be working on Becoming Schizophrenic: Affective Storytelling with Generative AI, a project exploring the application of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical approach to dynamic change and the disarrangement of subjectivity to affective storytelling with generative AI.

 

Jackson 2bears LeweenVisiting Artist Jackson 2bears Leween holding a brown clay mask up to cover his face. He is wearing a gray blazer. is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia installation/performance artist and cultural theorist from Six Nations and Tyendinaga. He joins the Lab and the Co-Creation Studio through an artist residency with the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. While at the Lab he’ll be working on Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe, a series of site-specific large-scale multimedia artworks, created in the spirit and image of Haudenosaunee longhouses in a 3D virtual space.

 

They will join our community of returning fellows Andrea Walls, Damien McDuffie, Jason Ryle, Joanna Wright, Kidus Hailesilassie, Lori Landay, Max Musau, Milad Mozari, Natasha Blatsiou, Tamara Shogaolu, and Tasha Hubbard; creative technologist in residence Halsey Burgund; and senior co-creation research practitioner Rashin Fahandej.