http://bit.ly/qYoVMp MIT+150: Fast (Festival of Artwork + Science + Technologies): Quick LIGHT — Light Drift

Quoting from the official pamphlet:

Quickly LIGHT • May possibly seven + eight, 2011, 7 pm - ten pm

Modern pioneers in artwork, science, and technologies have arrive with each other at MIT to produce a single of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has ever witnessed. On May well 7 and 8, 2011, website visitors can interact with 20+ artwork and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River alongside Memorial Drive at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / quickly

Installations scattered about campus (we didn't quite see all of them), once more pasting from the official flyer:

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

• Inflatables
Lobby 7, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture made 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)))
Building 7, 4th Floor
This set up nests layers of the earlier into an picture of the present, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Course)four
Building 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell transformed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse between floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.

• Maxwell's Dream
Building 10 Group Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural created by magnetic fields that generate designs of light, Maxwell's Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.

• Mood Meter
Pupil Middle & Building 8, Infinite Corridor
Is the smile a barometer of delight? Mood Meter playfully assesses and displays the mood of the MIT group onsite and at moodmeter.media.mit.edu
By Javier Hernandez and Ehsan Hoque.

• Delicate Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and charge your electronic gadgets employing green photo voltaic powered engineering
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 both sides of the river. Many thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.

• Sky Occasion
Killian Court, Saturday, Might 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar over MIT in celebration of the distinctive symbiosis between artists, scientists and engineers.
By Otto Piene.

• Liquid Archive
Charles River
A floating inflatable display gives a backdrop for projections that highlight MIT's background in science, technological innovation, and art.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.

• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river transform colour as they react to the presence of people alongside the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.

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

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

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

• Wind Display screen
Green Constructing Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light developed by micro-turbines displays a visual register of the replenishable supply of wind energy.
By Meejin Yoon.

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

• voltaDom
Developing 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an progressive fabrication approach that produces complicated double curved vaults by way of the easy rolling of a sheet of substance.
By Skylar Tibbits.

• Night of Numbers
Creating 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lights installation enlivens MIT architectre with numbers that maintain special or historical importance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.

• Overliner
Developing E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell's spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and active passageway into a instant of surprise and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.

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


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In a blog site submit describing the shift to shut down the 10 assignments — which Web page telegraphed a couple of weeks back– SVP of Engineering and Analysis Alan Eustace writes, “This will make things significantly easier for our end users, improving the total Google expertise. It will also indicate we can commit much more sources to high affect products—the ones that strengthen the lives of billions of individuals. All the Googlers doing work on these projects will be moved above to increased-effect merchandise.”
The properties getting shut down:
Aardvark
Desktop
Quick Flip
Google Maps API for Flash
Google Pack
Google Net Safety
Image Labeler
Notebook
Sidewiki
Subscribed Links
Eustace doesn’t especially go into why they gave up on Aardvark, but incorporating that the company will even now discover the notion of social research. Google Pack’s demise is due to”the speedily decreasing need for downloadable computer software in favor of web apps,” and Google World wide web Security’s features has been integrated straight into Chrome’s safe and sound-searching attribute. For a lot more specifics on when specific projects will be shut down, see the post.
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