http://bit.ly/nU7w93 MIT+150: Fast (Festival of Artwork + Science + Technologies): Quick LIGHT — Boston skyline with Light Drift, Liquid Archive, & LightBridge (west view)

Quoting from the official pamphlet:

Quick LIGHT • May possibly seven + 8, 2011, 7 pm - ten pm

Modern pioneers in artwork, science, and engineering have occur together at MIT to produce 1 of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has actually witnessed. On May 7 and 8, 2011, site visitors can interact with 20+ artwork and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River alongside Memorial Drive at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / rapidly

Installations scattered close to campus (we did not really see all of them), again 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 ahead of serenity returns as a calm ripple.
By Otto Ng, Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev.

• Inflatables
Lobby 7, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture produced 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)))
Constructing 7, 4th Floor
This set up nests layers of the past into an image of the existing, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Study course)four
Constructing 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell changed 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
Developing ten Neighborhood Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural designed by magnetic fields that generate patterns of light, Maxwell's Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.

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

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

• Sky Event
Killian Court, Saturday, Might 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar above MIT in celebration of the distinctive symbiosis among artists, researchers 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, engineering, and artwork.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.

• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river change shade as they react to the presence of individuals along the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.

• Unflat Pavilion
Building 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 Field
Walker Memorial Lawn
A field of enticing mounts develop a landscape that encourages passersby to meander by way of, or lounge upon the smooth plaster styles.
By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim.

• Bibliodoptera
Creating 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Freshly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's diverse library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters over, reacting to the motion of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.

• Wind Display
Green Developing Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light designed by micro-turbines shows a visual register of the replenishable supply of wind vitality.
By Meejin Yoon.

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

• voltaDom
Building 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an progressive fabrication method that produces complicated double curved vaults via the easy rolling of a sheet of content.
By Skylar Tibbits.

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

• Overliner
Creating E-twenty five Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell's spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and active passageway into a minute of shock and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.

• Chroma District
Corner of Ames and Major Streets.
Lanterns react to guests by passing audio and colour from a single to yet another, growing in intensity along the way and illuminating the route to MIT's campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.



There have been plenty of obituaries created for the newspaper business, most of which have a kernel of fact to them — but is journalism as we know it at risk as effectively? Dave Winer, a programming guru and going to scholar at the New York University school of journalism, states it is. In a blog publish on Friday, Winer argued that “journalism by itself is getting to be obsolete” simply because now “anyone can do it.” Is he right? In some approaches, certainly. 1 factor is for positive: Journalism is staying transformed by the world wide web and by actual-time publishing networks and what Om calls the “democracy of distribution.” Regardless of whether that’s very good or poor depends on your level of view.
Winer’s article was really about the recent kerfuffle over TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington’s start of a enterprise-money fund, a topic that has obtained far more than ample protection already elsewhere. But in the procedure of chatting about that concern — and how Arrington has never made any statements to be a journalist — Winer explained that as far as he is concerned, journalism as we know it is becoming obsolete, in element simply because non-journalists can do it just as effortlessly as journalists can. The bottom line, he says, is that journalism by itself was “a response to publishing getting expensive.”

It charge a good deal of cash to push bits around the net prior to there was a net. They had to have huge cash-intensive printing vegetation, fleets of trucks and delivery boys with paper routes. Now we can hear directly from the sources and create our own news networks. It’s nevertheless early days for this… but in a generation or two we won’t be employing folks to collect information for us. It’ll work in a different way.

If it’s crucial, the information will find me
Winer is definitely proper about the reality that the way we consume “news,” and even in which that information comes from, has changed drastically in just the last couple of many years. For many people, as we’ve referred to before at GigaOM, information now comes from their social graph by way of Facebook, or by means of a Twitter stream — perhaps study in a news-curation app like Flipboard or Zite, or by way of an aggregator like Techmeme or Memeorandum, which collects information hits published on blogs by men and women who may or may possibly not even see on their own as journalists.
But is it correct to say that journalism was a reaction to the reality that publishing was expensive? Not genuinely. Newspapers and their complete enterprise design, which involved turning out to be a mass medium in purchase to aggregate eyeballs and then promote them to advertisers, was a reaction to publishing staying costly. And a lot of of the items that are most criticized about the newspaper technique to journalism — including what NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen calls the “view from nowhere,” and the omniscient tone that several journalists get — are surely an outgrowth of that product.

But none of individuals items are truly journalism, which is why media theorist Clay Shirky states that instead than focus on conserving newspapers, he would favor to concentrate on saving journalism. And what is journalism? Everyone has their very own definition, but I feel it is fundamentally about a spirit of inquiry, of curiosity, of wanting to make perception of items. It is one thing like the spirit of scientific inquiry, as Matt Thompson noted not too long ago in a post at the Poynter Institute. It has extremely minor to do with certain instruments or specific approaches of publishing.
Random acts of journalism
Winer is appropriate about journalism altering due to the fact any person can do it, nonetheless, as we’ve also described a quantity of moments. That trend, which has turned sources of information into publishers (allowing them to “go direct” as Winer likes to say) commenced with blogs and has ongoing with Twitter and Facebook and other equipment. Andy Carvin, who has turn into a 1-guy newswire by curating news about the Arab Spring on Twitter, says he prefers to consider of journalism as an act relatively than a profession. So folks like Sohaib Athar, a Pakistan resident who reside-tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden as it was taking place, engaged in what Carvin calls a “random act of journalism.”
Instead of saying journalism is obsolete, I would instead say it as evolving and expanding — and I happen to think that’s a excellent thing. What does it consist of now? Most of the points it used to, as effectively as some new ones: developing connections with your reader neighborhood is a journalistic talent, and curation of the sort Carvin does (and the NYT is experimenting with via its @NYTlive Twitter account) undoubtedly is. And we nevertheless require individuals to verify information and ferret out misinformation when information is breaking, which is what makes Snopes one particular of my favorite non-journalistic journalism web sites.
We need to have men and women who can job interview other folks and make sense of what they say — which is why Reddit has some aspects of journalism to it, and Quora does also (Winer recently asked why a newspaper like the New York Times hasn’t adopted an strategy like Quora). All these capabilities and a lot more are essential — and the capacity to aggregate points in a wise way, and the potential to comprehend and make perception of huge quantities of info.
Will journalism as a entire experience due to the fact some men and women engage in conflicts of curiosity or abuse anonymous sources or break any of the other so-known as policies of journalism? Not actually. Most of the popular newspapers and media outlets of the last 50 a long time have carried out all that and even worse (indeed, even even worse than News Corp.’s cellphone hacking). Newspapers may well occur and go and bloggers may rise and fall, but journalism continues — not so much as an institution, but as a state of mind and a sequence of beliefs, and a way of behaving. There are just a lot more ways to do it now, rightly or wrongly.
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