A working group committed to social and spatial justice, we research how augmenting and connecting local environments with stories, information and technology changes our relationship to place and to each...
Palimpsests of Place The geological striations that mark the Grand Canyon, like the accreted tangle of streets, buildings, and signage in downtown Manhattan, attest to a complex temporality. The world, both...
Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through Augmented Reality In conjunction with Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality Exhibition, the MIT Open Documentary Lab will offer tours, workshops and conversations from April 7...
The MIT Open Documentary Lab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective is engaging in an ongoing inquiry using artistic research methodologies to explore how digital augmentation can reshape our understanding...
[embed]https://youtu.be/-aFiC5suGTE[/embed] Verity McIntosh and Catherine Allen | We’re All in This Together: Safety, Policy and the Translation of Human Rights into Multi-Person Virtual Environments As immersive technologies and spatial computing paradigms move...
Layers of Place is an augmented reality (AR) exhibition that reimagines MIT’s campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, where physical sites and digital spaces reveal hidden...
[embed]https://youtu.be/G0-PdTTd3PM[/embed] May Abdalla | The Proof Is in the Pudding: Developing and Testing Immersive Experience to Create Impact May Abdalla charts the development of Anagram's latest project Impulse - a mixed reality...
[embed]https://youtu.be/jNTO4hktlPQ?si=zdJ1Ix7HQsnackGf[/embed] Hannah Jayanti — Documentary as Practice: Ethics and Politics Through Curiosity and Care Through her work, Hannah will explore the idea of documentary as a life practice. Ethics and politics will be explored...
Akmyrat Tuyliyev is a Turkmen producer and new media artist, working at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and culture. Akmyrat is an XR Artist Member at Onassis ONX Studio, an accelerator...
[embed]https://youtu.be/OHfbYhuW4i4?si=VcfV29wnggDp4fNV[/embed] Archival Producers Alliance (APA) — Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries Join the Archival Producers Alliance (APA) their Initiative for the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Documentaries....