Event

Festival City Premiere

LocationUsher Hall, Edinburgh Description

Tuesday
August 27, 2013
Event

Repertoire Remix: Special Interactive Improvisation Session for Tod Machover's Festival City

LocationThe Guardian online DescriptionJOIN US ONLINE ON TUESDAY, JULY 9 AT 2PM ESTComposer Tod Machover is in the midst of creating a "col…

Tuesday
July 9, 2013
Post

Synthetic:Sync film premiere at the Media Lab

The film was a semi-finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival and will be released online following a private screening at the Lab

Post

Danielle Wood and Space Enabled group host Boston premiere of Zero Gravity

As part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab.

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Premiere of "A Toronto Symphony"

LocationToronto Symphony Orchestra, Roy Thomson Hall DescriptionTSO Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the world première of A Toronto Sym…

Sunday — Saturday
March 10, 2013 —
March 9, 2013
Event

World Premiere: Symphony in D

LocationDetroit, MI DescriptionA Symphony for Detroit. By Detroit. Leonard Slatkin leads the world premiere of Tod Machover's "Symphony in …

Friday
November 20, 2015
Event

"Of Experience" Premiere in Montreal

LocationMontreal Symphony Description Work Featured ByTod Machover

Sunday — Saturday
May 17, 2015 —
May 16, 2015
Event

Death and the Powers Premiere

LocationOpéra Garnier de Monte-Carlo Description Host/Chair: Tod Machover

Friday — Sunday
September 24, 2010 —
September 26, 2010
Article

Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere

The composer Tod Machover sat on the floor in a circle of third graders one recent morning at the brightly colored, mural-filled Detroit Ac…

Article

Death and the Powers US Premiere

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Tod Machover @ Lucerne Festival 2015

LocationLucerne, Switzerland Description8/23 | Tribute to Boulez 6: Re-Structures for Two Pianos and Live Electronics (world premiere)8/29 …

Sunday — Saturday
August 23, 2015 —
September 5, 2015
Event

Schoenberg in Hollywood: European premiere at the Volksoper

Machover's opera will be produced at the Volksoper Wien in Vienna exactly two years from when it was originally scheduled in April 2020.

Saturday — Sunday
April 9, 2022 —
April 24, 2022
Event

Media Lab hosts screenings with Boston Film Festival

The screenings highlight stories of the Black community in the US featuring innovation, tradition, and courage.

Saturday — Sunday
September 23, 2023 —
September 24, 2023
Event

Premiere of Tod Machover's Overstory Overture

Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.

Tuesday
March 7, 2023
7:30pm ET
Event

Schoenberg in Hollywood: Asian premiere at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present the Asian premiere of Professor Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood on Nov. 4, 2023

Saturday
November 4, 2023
Project

Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

Video

#50 Death and the Powers Premiere

Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.

Person

Tod Machover

Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Event

Phil Tinn @ 7th Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival

Join MIT Media Lab's Phil Tinn at the 7th Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a sprawling celebration of interdisciplinary creativity and fea…

Wednesday — Saturday
April 11, 2018 —
April 14, 2018
9:00am — 6:00pm ET
Event

INSCRIPT Experimental Type Festival

At Inscript Festival, research assistant Vera van de Seyp gave a talk with the title "Type in Motion: Code as a Design Tool"

Friday
October 14, 2022
8:00am — 9:00am ET
Event

NeuraFutures @ CreatedBy Festival 2023

Join the NeuraFutures team for the CreatedBy Festival on Friday, October 20, 2023  and Sunday, October 22, 2023! 🤖 Want to contro…

Friday — Sunday
October 20, 2023 —
October 22, 2023
9:00am — 4:00pm ET
Project

Festival of Invention and Creativity

The Festival of Invention and Creativity (FIC) is a great celebration of the inventive, collaborative, and hands-on  spirit  of B…

Event

Festival of Learning 2020

An event by the Media Lab, for the Media Lab. To celebrate our passions & learn together :)

Post

Festival of Learning 2022 at the MIT Media Lab

Festival of Learning is always a time of meeting new people while reconnecting with friends I haven't seen in a while, which has been espec…

Event

Festival of Learning 2019

An event for the Lab community to celebrate our passions, learn together, eat, make, share , play, dance, and more!

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Sputniko! at Sonar Festival

LocationSonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain DescriptionSputniko! is a japanese designer/artist who designs products, devices, music and film e…

Friday
June 13, 2014
Event

Tod Machover @ Turing Festival

LocationSignet Library, Edinburgh Description

Saturday
August 24, 2013
Event

NeuraFutures@ Cambridge Science Festival

Join us to learn more on 500 years of fiction and science of brain interfaces. Guided tours of our  installation, lecture and demos ar…

Monday — Sunday
October 3, 2022 —
October 9, 2022
9:00am — 8:00pm ET
Event

Ars Electronica Festival 2020

Live Q+A session with Neri Oxman and Gerfried Stocker.

Wednesday
September 9, 2020
1:30pm — 2:30pm ET
Event

Tree @ TribeCa Film Festival

See and feel what it is like to become a tree in this haptically enhanced VR experience. With your arms as the branches and your body as th…

Event

Tree @ Sundance Film Festival

See and feel what it’s like to be one of the most essential building blocks of carbon-based life: a tree. This haptically enhanced virtual …

Event

Rosalind Picard @ Ada Lovelace Festival

Ada Lovelace Festival interviews Rosalind Picard on how Emotional Intelligence fosters Sustainable Tech.

Wednesday
September 30, 2020
Post

Festival of Learning 2020

A day for learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

Event

Humanitarian Technology Festival @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab Description

Saturday — Sunday
May 9, 2015 —
May 10, 2015
Event

Media Lab @ Mozilla Festival 2012

LocationLondon, UK DescriptionMIT Media LabMaking | Connections @ Mozilla Festival 2012Follow the team: @medialab/mozfest2012 The MIT Media…

Friday — Sunday
November 9, 2012 —
November 11, 2012
Event

Joi Ito @ Boston Book Festival

LocationOld South Sanctuary 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA DescriptionA discussion of which industries we can expect to thrive in the futu…

Saturday
October 15, 2016
Event

Media Lab @ Mozilla Festival 2013

LocationRavensbourne, London, UK DescriptionBuild and Teach the WebWorkshop: kids programming on tablets | Champika Fernando Open Data for …

Saturday — Sunday
October 26, 2013 —
October 27, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ Aspen Ideas Festival

LocationAspen, Colorado Description

Saturday
June 29, 2013
Event

Hiroshi Ishii @ Cannes Lions Festival

LocationCannes, FR Description

Friday
June 21, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ New Creations Festival

LocationToronto Symphony Orchestra DescriptionTod Machover is curating the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's New Creations Festival. There are a…

Sunday — Sunday
March 3, 2013 —
March 10, 2013
Event

Dan Novy @ Sundance Film Festival

LocationSundance Film Festival, UT DescriptionWhen you think about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, filmmaking, civic activism, a…

Sunday
January 20, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ Cannes Lions Festival

Description

Thursday
June 23, 2011
Event

Women Take the Reel Film Festival 2024

The MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences is supporting the festival, and presenting three films at the MIT Bartos Theater.

Friday — Monday
February 23, 2024 —
March 25, 2024
Event

Poet of Code @ WIRED Festival UK

AI Ethics Keynote

Person

Avery Normandin

Former Learning Programs Manager

Person

Devora Najjar

Former Research Assistant

Article

Musical worlds collide with BLO’s world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood”

An enticing historical drama explores the conflict between maintaining artistic integrity and an artist’s longing to reach a wider audience.

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NeuraFutures @Cambridge Science Festival 2023

We invite you to join us in celebrating the science and fiction of brain sensing (all ages!):  📍2 locations 🧠 2 lectures 🧙‍♀…

Monday — Sunday
September 25, 2023 —
October 1, 2023
9:00am — 9:00pm ET
Event

Courtyard Festival with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh

This one-night speaker event at City Hall Plaza will explore the ways startups and new technologies will shape the future of Boston.Join Ma…

Thursday
June 1, 2017
5:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

MIT Media Lab @ Aspen Ideas Festival

LocationAspen, CO Description

Sunday
July 1, 2012
Event

Radical Atoms @ Ars Electronica Festival 2016

LocationLinz, Austria DescriptionIn close cooperation with Professor Hiroshi Ishii and the Tangible Media group, the 2016 Ars Electronica F…

Thursday — Monday
September 8, 2016 —
September 12, 2016
Event

Special Talk: Edinburgh Festival Director Jonathan Mills

LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor Lecture Hall DescriptionThe Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting artists and…

Tuesday
November 13, 2012
Event

Opera of the Future @ BSO's Music for the Senses Festival

Listen to the panel discussions and concerts happening in Symphony Hall as part of this festival!

Saturday — Wednesday
April 6, 2024 —
April 10, 2024
6:15pm — 9:30pm ET
Event

Media Lab @ Ars Electronica Festival 2020

The following research from the Media Lab will be featured at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, which will take place September …

Wednesday — Sunday
September 9, 2020 —
September 13, 2020
Event

Networked Playscapes + Mapping Festival + Geneva

The festival is now a major event in the fields of image generation, technological creation and exploration, attracting both professional a…

Wednesday
May 24, 2017
Post

Festival of Learning 2021: Connecting the Curious

In this post, we’re sharing some highlights from the 5th annual Festival of Learning and how we tried to keep the magic of the event alive!

Event

Danielle Wood speaks at Chicago Humanities Festival 2018

Join Wood as she reveals the myriad ways we can use lessons drawn from space for the benefit of all humankind.

Saturday
November 10, 2018
3:00pm — 4:00pm ET
Post

Collective Echos at Ars Electronica Festival 2023

Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening

Event

Joi Ito: Opening Circle and Keynote at Mozilla Festival

LocationRavensbourne, London Description

Sunday
November 11, 2012
Event

Zero Robotics Documentary at DOC NYC Film Festival

The documentary Zero Gravity about the MIT Zero Robotics program, led by Danielle Wood, will be showing at the DOC NYC Film Festival.

Sunday
November 14, 2021
Group

City Science

The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found to create the places where people live and work in addition to t…

Event

Tapis Magique, KnittedKeyboard, and 3DKnITS at the Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival and Boston Fashion Week present a celebration of SMART fashion. Join us in the Festival Zone for a day of r…

Saturday
October 8, 2022
10:00am — 6:00pm ET
Event

Space Enabled Outreach at the Cambridge Science Festival

In celebration of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon, join us for a lunar exploration. Take a look at lun

Saturday
April 20, 2019
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Person

Simone Ovsey

Former Producer of Special Projects

Event

Media Lab @ 2023 Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM)