GSD: Echoes of Empire Echoes of Empire is a course offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), taught by Landscape Architect Rosalea Monacella. The course meets at ArtLab for studio sessions throughout Spring 2025. Rosalea Monacella (ArtLab faculty-in-residence, 2025) is a Landscape Architect and scholar who has undertaken research on a number of…
HUCA Commission: Proximity Continuum “Proximity Continuum,” a short film directed by Malakhai Pearson and Joseph Zeal Henry, is the third iteration of the SUPA System project at ArtLab. Beginning with Joseph Zeal Henry’s commission by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) in January 2024, the SUPA System sonic sculpture became the centerpiece of a dance…
Elitza Koeva: Symbiotic Resonances: Sounding More-Than-Human Worlds As part of her postdoctoral fellowship with the Thinking with Plants and Fungi initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Elitza Koeva is working on a case study on how trees at the Harvard Divinity School communicate and respond to stimuli like…
The critical questions of this project are: What is the relationship between dance and technology?How can the kinesthetic dimensions of interaction be made visible? Ilya Vidrin and Partnering Lab’s project continues the research conducted during their 2020 ArtLab residency, which was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will spend a week in March 2025 at ArtLab developing a new…
GSD: Atmospheric Encounters “Atmospheric Encounters: Visualizing the Invisible” is a Fall 2024 course offered by the Graduate School of Design and taught by Craig Douglas. The class convened at ArtLab for site visits and student critiques throughout the semester. At the end of the course, students participated in an open studio at ArtLab. Craig Douglas…
Music: Claire Chase with Lisa E. Harris, Music and Community Professor Chase invited guest artists to work with her freshman seminar “Music and Community” course at ArtLab, and the students performed “A Black Woman Told Me and I Believe Her,” a spoken-word musical performance. Claire Chase, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music at…
LPCE: ART+ ART+ is a series that explores how interdisciplinary thinking that prioritizes art and creativity inspires experimental and innovative approaches to tackling complex challenges. ART+ is co-organized by ArtLab and the Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship (LPCE). This series was produced online during the COVID-19 campus shutdown. Moderator Nicholas Medvescek is a creative producer…
LPCE and metaLAB: Rigorous Play & Whimsical Work Rigorous Play & Whimsical Work was a workshop on the use of whimsy and surprise in the creative process, incorporating playfulness, chance, and the value of constraints. Designed as a fast-paced, hands-on session at Harvard’s ArtLab, students explored new forms of collaboration, working with physical materials to give…
Merritt Moore: Are we human, or are we dancer At ArtLab, Dr. Merritt Moore investigated choreographing a dance duet between a robot and a dancer, collaborating with Alice Williamson and a UR10e robotic arm. Merritt and Alice researched the connections between choreography, ballet dance, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Merritt Moore graduated from Harvard College and received…
CMP: Buse Aktaş, How’s the Matter? An interactive, touchable art installation by Buse Aktaş in which the components periodically undergo state changes. The installation includes elements from and is an iteration of the first research study exploring how people haptically engage with objects that change their mechanical properties during interaction (publication in preparation). Buse Aktaş…
