By Samuel R. Mendez This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Mechanical Souls” - Sundance This year’s New Frontier selections at Sundance point to a participatory future for virtual reality (VR), with fuzzy...
By Sara Rafsky This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Frankenstein A.I.” at Sundance The projects in this year’s New Frontier section at the Sundance Film Festival ranged from the latest cutting-edge virtual reality to...
By Josefina Buschmann This article was originally featured in Indiewire. The New Frontiers scene at Sundance Most virtual reality experiences are characterized by individual immersion. The viewer puts the headset on and, suddenly disconnected from...
These courses are offered to MIT students and affiliates. More information can be found at the MIT subjects catalogue. CMS.307 Critical Worldbuilding () (Subject meets with CMS.807) Prereq: None Units: 3-3-6 Studies the design and analysis of invented (or...
These courses are offered to MIT students and affiliates. More information can be found at the MIT subjects catalogue. CMS.335J Short Attention Span Documentary (, ) (Same subject as 21W.790[J]) (Subject meets with 21W.890) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: TR1-2.30 (26-142) Focuses on the...
Charity Everett is a Creative Technologist, Storyteller, Performer, and Research Fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab and Graduate Learning Fellow at Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning...
We May Be All Alone. In 1990, from 6 million kilometers away, Voyager 1 took a snapshot of our existence in the universe: a pale blue dot. In it, we...
Kenneth Bailey is the co-founder of the Design Studio for Social Intervention (ds4si). His interests focus on the research and development of design tools for marginalized communities to address...
Rus Gant is a well-regarded international 3D artist, computer engineer and educator. He is currently on the Research staff at Harvard University, he is also a Research Fellow at the...
Rachel Devorah is a sonic artist and feminist technologist whose works engage the poetics and politics of their specific context. Her work has been heard in the U.S. at Art...