http://bit.ly/nNPtyo MIT+150: Rapidly (Festival of Artwork + Science + Technological innovation): Fast LIGHT — Boston skyline with Light Drift, Liquid Archive, & LightBridge (east view)

Quoting from the official pamphlet:

Fast LIGHT • Might 7 + 8, 2011, seven pm - 10 pm

Contemporary pioneers in artwork, science, and technological innovation have arrive together at MIT to develop one of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has ever before noticed. On May possibly seven and eight, 2011, visitors can interact with 20+ artwork and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River along Memorial Drive at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / rapidly

Installations scattered about campus (we failed to fairly see all of them), once again pasting from the official flyer:

• aFloat
MIT Chapel • Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Inspired by drinking water in the Saarinen Chapel's moat, a touch releases flickers of light before serenity returns as a relaxed ripple.
By Otto Ng, Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev.

• Inflatables
Lobby seven, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture created of silver nylon resonates with gusts of air, heat from light bulbs, and the motions of passersby.
By Kyle Barker, Juan Jofre, Nick Polansky, Jorge Amaya.

• (now(now(now)))
Creating 7, 4th Floor
This installation nests layers of the earlier into an picture of the present, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Training course)4
Developing 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell changed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse in between floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.

• Maxwell's Dream
Constructing ten Neighborhood Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural produced by magnetic fields that drive patterns of light, Maxwell's Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.

• Mood Meter
University student Center & Developing 8, Infinite Corridor
Is the smile a barometer of pleasure? Mood Meter playfully assesses and displays the mood of the MIT neighborhood onsite and at moodmeter.media.mit.edu
By Javier Hernandez and Ehsan Hoque.

• Comfortable Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and charge your digital devices making use of green photo voltaic driven technological innovation
By Shiela Kennedy, P. Seaton, S. Rockcastle, W. Inam, A. Aolij, J. Nam, K. Bogenshutz, J. Bayless, M. Trimble.

• LightBridge
The Mass. Ave Bridge
A dynamic interactive LED array responds to pedestrians on the bridge, illustrating MIT's ties to equally sides of the river. Thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.

• Sky Event
Killian Court, Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar over MIT in celebration of the distinctive symbiosis amongst artists, researchers and engineers.
By Otto Piene.

• Liquid Archive
Charles River
A floating inflatable screen supplies a backdrop for projections that highlight MIT's history in science, technology, and artwork.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.

• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river adjust coloration as they react to the existence of men and women along the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.

• Unflat Pavilion
Creating 14 Lawn
This freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDs flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns, and windows.
By Nick Gelpi

• Gradated Subject
Walker Memorial Lawn
A discipline of enticing mounts generate a landscape that encourages passersby to meander via, or lounge on the sleek plaster shapes.
By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim.

• Bibliodoptera
Developing 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's diverse library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters previously mentioned, reacting to the movement of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.

• Wind Display
Green Constructing Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light designed by micro-turbines displays a visual sign-up of the replenishable source of wind energy.
By Meejin Yoon.

• String Tunnel
Developing eighteen Bridge
A diaphonous tunnel results in a perception of entry to and from the Infinite Corridor and frames the bordering landscape.
By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams.

• voltaDom
Creating 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an revolutionary fabrication technique that creates complex double curved vaults through the easy rolling of a sheet of materials.
By Skylar Tibbits.

• Night of Amounts
Creating 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lights installation enlivens MIT architectre with quantities that hold unique or historical significance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.

• Overliner
Constructing E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell's spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and busy passageway into a moment of shock and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.

• Chroma District
Corner of Ames and Main Streets.
Lanterns react to guests by passing audio and shade from one particular to an additional, growing in intensity alongside the way and illuminating the path to MIT's campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.



Solyndra's ground breaking ceremony in 2009

Now that photo voltaic maker Solyndra has exposed that it programs to file for bankruptcy, get all set to listen to a whole lot of Republican finger pointing at Obama and the Division of Power above the misspent money all the way up to the following election. Solyndra was the recipient of more than a fifty percent billion bucks in loans from the federal authorities.
Republican Energy Committee’s Republican chair, Rep. Fred Upton, who had spearheaded an investigation into Solyndra before this yr, is currently making use of politically-charged language like “We smelled a rat from the onset,” and “In this time of document personal debt these kinds of disregard for taxpayer bucks can't be tolerated.” About 24-hours following Solyndra announced its personal bankruptcy plans, the Republican Nationwide Committee set with each other this anti-Obama video about Solyndra’s struggles:

Solyndra’s higher-profile flameout is acquiring an uncommon amount of focus, not only due to the fact of the substantial size of the funds missing, but because President Obama visited the factory in the Spring of 2010, and politicians like Vice President Joe Bide, Electricity Secretary Steven Chu and then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the ground breaking of the factory in late 2009. When politicians go out of their way to praise and support a company, turns out the public does not like it when the business fails.
But Solyndra is by no implies the only greentech startup or tech startup that has become a darling of politicians. The shift of each politicians in office, and former legislators out of company, to go to ceremonies at plants, join companies’ boards, and align themselves with scorching startups is very common. It’s actually become almost expected for retired politicians to act as advisors to startups, and use their political connections to support the improvements that they favor. Enterprise company Kleiner Perkins has Al Gore and Colin Powell for that, and Khosla Ventures has Tony Blair.
Nonetheless, politicians in office environment and out of workplace, require to be really mindful of how risky the startup is that they are connecting with. To note: the greater part of startups fail, and linking with a firm that doesn’t realize success is not all that undesirable. It is just linking with a startup that spectacularly flames out and wastes public funds that could be very dangerous and could sink a promising private sector job, or lead to a failed re-election bid.
We’ve written about this ahead of, back when Representatives John Carter of Texas and Mark Schauer of Michigan, lent their help to the hugely-controversial energy storage organization EEStor. I’m not positive why any politicians would get this sort of a chance. Again then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also hailed photo voltaic thermal startup Ausra as “one of the finest companies in the world,” really soon before the startup laid off personnel and was forced to dramatically scale again its ambitions (it was later bought).
Previous politicians that have joined boards of fairly risky startups contain Condoleezza Rice, which connected with equally Khosla’s biofuel company KiOR and Tom Siebel’s carbon software package startup C3. Colin Powell is on the board of substantial profile fuel cell maker Bloom Power. On the other hand, far much less risky tech organizations like Facebook and Google have been the venues for Presidential events.
I’m not advocating that politicians really do not embrace and assist tech and greentech businesses. Staying away from all risky and unproven technologies, would indicate basically preserving the standing quo — not an appealing selection when it arrives to energy sources, engineering and environment change. But politicians want to do their property work and tread very carefully when it arrives to the far more high chance firms. In an surroundings when most startups fail, but are normally hoping to put their best encounter forward, it’s on stress of the politicians to know what they’re obtaining into.
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