Open Lab: Home Sprints
June 2020 | By Google Arts & Culture Lab, MIT Media Lab
A collaboration between MIT Media Lab and Google Arts & Culture, bringing together a global community of artists and technologists to experiment, spark new ideas, and share time whilst it is not possible to share physical space during quarantine.
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Continuing both MIT Media Lab’s and Google Arts & Culture Lab’s support of interdisciplinary experimentation across art and technology, Open Lab: Home Sprint was a 48 hour creative exchange between over 40 artists and creative technologists. Many of the participants had never met before, coming together to collaborate in highly interdisciplinary groups combining skills from choreography to engineering; photography to architecture; sound art to interaction design. This global, digital community spanned 11 countries and 5 continents.
The exchange was artist led, with 14 artists proposing prior to the sprint a project idea, each responding in its own unique way to some of the challenges and questions raised during Quarantine. Based on these proposals the artists were paired in as close a match as possible with a group of interdisciplinary creative technologists, designers, and other artists, with whom they had 48 hour creative exchange to develop the idea.
Through this process, the participants began to recreate in virtual space the meaningful connections between disciplines and serendipity of discovery that characterise the physical spaces of both the MIT Media Lab and the Google Arts & Culture Lab that were closed during this time.
From the sprint 14 concepts were developed, across disciplines including dance, visual art, photography, film, architecture, audio design.
Open Lab Participants:
Krystle Wright, Adventure photographer and director, Australia
Nan Zhao, Research Affiliate, Responsive Environments group, MIT Media Lab, US
Judith Amores, Research Assistant, Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab, US
Joao Wilbert, Research Assistant, Tangible Media group, MIT Media Lab, US
farid rakun, Artist, Ruangrupa, Indonesia
Mochamad Hasrul Indrabakti, Artist, Serrum Studio, Indonesia
Muhamad Hafiz, Artist, Serrum Studio, Indonesia
Prathima Muniyappa, Research Assistant, Space Enabled group, MIT Media Lab, India
Eyal Perry, Research Assistant, Molecular Machines group, MIT Media Lab, US
Aruna Sankaranarayanan, Research Assistant, Viral Communications group, MIT Media Lab, US
Rohini Devasher, Artist, India
Harshit Agrawal, Creative Technologist, India
Sumayya Vally, Architect, Counterspace, South Africa
Aaron Montoya Moraga, Research Assistant, Future Sketches group, Opera of the Future group, MIT Media Lab, US
Thomas Sanchez, User Experience Researcher, City Science group, MIT Media Lab, US
Stephen Tayo, Photographer, Nigeria
Aishni Parab, Software Engineer, Tangible Media group, MIT Media Lab, US
Nicolas Ayoub, Visiting Researcher, City Science group, MIT Media Lab, France
Carlo Luis Ruben Schenk, Founder, Club Quarantäne, Germany
Ryan Miller, Collaborator, Club Quarantäne, UK
Matthew Burrows, Artist and Founder of Artist Support Pledge, UK
Matthew Groh, Research Assistant, Affective Computing group, MIT Media Lab, US
Nick Ryan, Artist, Composer & Audio Specialist, UK
Nikhil Singh, Research Assistant, Opera of the Future group, MIT Media Lab, US
Irmandy Wickasono, Research Assistant, Responsive Environments group, MIT Media Lab, US
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia, Visiting Student, City Science group, MIT Media Lab, Spain
Ben Cullen-Williams, Artist, UK
Guadalupe Babio, Research Assistant, City Science group, MIT Media Lab, US
Adam Haar Horowitz, Research Assistant, Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab, US
Loni Landan, Choreographer, US
Rachael Pazdan, Music Presenter, US
Rebecca Kleinberger, Research Assistant, Opera of the Future group, MIT Media Lab, US
Cedric Hornet, Visiting Scientist, Responsive Environments group, MIT Media Lab, US
Nataliya Kos'myna, Postdoctoral Associate, Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab, US
Ani Liu, Artist, Researcher, and Educator, US
Martial Geoffre-Rouland, Creative Technologist, France
Aria Dean, Artist & Curator, US
Andrea Lauer, Directors Fellow, MIT Media Lab, US
Alice Hong, Research Assistant, Tangible Media group, MIT Media Lab, US
Risa Puno, Artist, US
Gaurav Patekar, Research Assistant, Future Sketches group, Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab, us
Cynthia Hua, Artist, Writer & Engineer, US
Xin Liu, Artist & Curator of MIT's Space Exploration Initiative, US
Bay Dam, Creative Technologist, Senegal
Gershon Dublon, Research Affiliate in the MIT Media Lab Responsive Environments Group, US