Musical Aesthetics & Media Technology
F A S T
Professor Tod Machover
Wednesday, 2:00-4:30 pm
MIT Media Lab, E14-525
Syllabus
September 8 – Kick-off Lecture in Lab Lecture Hall (Tod/633) – FAST: Unique Culture | Unique Festival
--- open to all students as an independent event ---
September 15 – Meejin Yoon – Architecture | Installations | Animated Campus, with Susanne Seitinger and Sasa Zivkovic
September 22 – Evan Ziporyn – Music at MIT | MIDI Gamelan | Kronos-Bang | House in Bali
September 29 – Erik and Marty Demaine – Computation and Beauty | Shadow Wall | Campus-wide Game
October 6 – Tod Machover, et al – Performance at the Media Lab | Death and the Powers
October 8 or 9 – A House in Bali, take students to Cutler Majestic performance
October 13 – Tod Machover, et al – Media Lab’s 25 th | installations, experiences, objects
- visit to Media Lab alumni installations
October 20 – Pawan Sinha – The Neuroscience of Expression | Neural Jukebox
October 27 – Jay Scheib – Media Theater | Parade of MIT Clubs | Bellona, Destroyer of Cities
November 3 – Ute Meta Bauer – A.C.T. | Tradition of Visual Arts Research & Experiment at MIT
November 10 - Projects
November 17 – Allegra Libonati (A.R.T., Harvard) – audience involvement in art interventions
November 24 - Projects
December 1 - Projects
December 8 – Final Projects (proposals for Festival projects)