AFVS: Karthik Pandian, Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media In the Fall semester of 2023, ArtLab supported the midterm critique of video installations, multimedia performances, and other time-based works created in the Art, Film, & Visual Studies department (AFVS) course Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media, taught by Associate Professor Karthik Pandian. Karthik Pandian, ArtLab Faculty Artist…
Bioengineering: Shriya Srinivasan, Experiencing dance through haptics Dr. Shriya Srinivasan is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where she directs the Harvard Biohybrid Organs and Neuroprosthetics (BIONICS) lab. Her ArtLab residency culminated in a work-in-progress public performance at ArtLab, recorded for the new NOVA series Building Stuff,…
Ed Portal: Nina Bhattacharya, Mending as Care Work Nina Bhattacharya is a designer, educator, and social worker. As an educator and facilitator, Nina designs learning experiences that nurture and amplify young people’s agency, well-being, and creative power. With her project at ArtLab entitled Mending as Care Work, Nina explored textile mending as an expression of…
HGSE: Louisa Penfold, Contemporary Art in Early Childhood Education Dr. Louisa Penfold, Co-Chair of Arts and Learning at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), returns to the ArtLab this Fall to lead a series of studio workshops for the HGSE course “Contemporary Art in Early Childhood Education.” Participants explore the potential of modern and contemporary…
HUCA Commission: Frank Waln, Waná Wétu Owíčhota Owášta Frank Waln, or Oyate Teca Obmani (“Walks with Young People”), is an award-winning Sicangu-Lakota hip-hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He uses his music to speak about social issues and injustices affecting the Native community and as a method for healing….
HUCA Commission: Joseph Zeal Henry, SUPA System SUPA System is a sonic sculpture and public infrastructure by Joseph Zeal Henry (2024, Loeb/ArtLab Fellow) with Deborah Garcia. As spatial practitioners and designers, they explore music and sound as materials for constructing physical spaces. Built at an outsized architectural scale, SUPA System asks what music and sound can…
HUCA Commission: Liz Lerman, My Body is a Library ArtLab is working with Liz Lerman and collaborators to facilitate the research and development of a new dance-based public artwork. My Body is a Library explores how we create categories, unpack nomenclature, and uphold oral histories and traditions. Lerman’s research is being conducted in collaboration with Harvard…
HUCA Commission: Samora Pinderhughes, The Healing Project The Healing Project, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Samora Pinderhughes, creates artistic works, collective healing spaces, and advocacy initiatives in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based on healing rather than punishment. Pianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes is a Harvard graduate student pursuing a PhD…
with Ilya Vidrin and Lins Derry of metaLAB…
Sona Tatoyan: Azad In September 2023, Sona Tatoyan and her collaborators developed the third act of Tatoyan’s autobiographical, multimedia theatrical performance, Azad, at the ArtLab. A “kaleidoscopic story within a story” (Hakawati), Azad is a work-in-progress theatrical experience that brings together ancient Karagöz shadow puppets, indigenous Middle Eastern folk music, oral storytelling, video projection, and movement. This…
