Experiments in the Arts and Sciences

On Saturday, February 18th, The Lab presents EXPERIENCE ECONOMIES 6:  INNOVATE OR DIE, a multi-site participatory tour that uses art to explore Boston's innovation landscape. 

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The Lab at Harvard presents EXPERIENCE ECONOMIES 6: INNOVATE OR DIE

February 18th, 2012

Why innovate?
On Saturday February 18, from 5-10pm, Experience Economies will ask this very question by inviting you to come on a participatory tour of Boston’s innovation landscape. This multimedia and multi-venue event will bring audiences inside the doors of some of the most unique and visionary ventures, foundations, and research laboratories in the region, engines at the leading edge of the emergent innovation economy. Each stop has been paired with artworks, performances, presentations and other surprise events exploring innovation – how it is conceptualized, pursued and lived in Boston and Cambridge, now and historically.

Experience Economies 6: Innovate or Die will include presentations by area artists Kelly Sherman and Catherine McMahon, New York City-based artist Mary Walling Blackburn, historian of science Jeremy Blatter, and a number of surprise guests.

UDPATE:  the event sold out in under one minute.  Please email experience.economies@gmail.com to get on the waitlist.  If you are interested in participating as event staff, please apply for a volunteer position!

Tickets are limited.  Each $10 ticket reserves one seat, which includes food and drink services throughout the course of the evening.

We are grateful for the support of our partners at the Berwick Research Institute,  Harvard i-labContinuumBoston ArtScience Prize, and Industry Lab.

Click here to download our press release:  LAB_ExEc_pressrelease

Announcing: Cultural Producers in Residence 2011-2012


We are thrilled to announce Experience Economies as Cultural Producers in Residence at The Lab this year.

One of Bostonʼs most agile and innovative cultural presenters, Experience Economies is a nomadic social event series where cultural producers are audiences to each other’s spectacles. Not a lecture and not a party, the events incorporate performance, presentation, discussion, scheming, drinks and food. Experience Economies welcomes experimentation, works-in-progress, audiences that want their spectacles to mess with them and presenters who need a space to make that mess.

Experience Economies was founded by Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Uchill to
1) provide a sorely needed social space and experimental platform for design and cultural practices in Boston.
2) provide artists, designers and creatives with a “willing audience” as material for social projects.
3) test out ideas about event-based formats and audience relationships.

Update: public event will take place on the evening of Saturday, February 18th.
Stay tuned for more details! If you would like to volunteer, sign up here.

TEDxCambridge

November 19th, 2011

What is Thrive?

Thrive is a one-day TEDx event presented by TEDxCambridge and hosted by The Laboratory at Harvard featuring short talks, performances, and demonstrations by some of the leading thinkers and doers in the Boston area. We will explore our brains and bodies, question the relationship between nature and nurture, and examine the different understandings of the good life as we ask: How can we live the longest and healthiest lives? When are we the most productive and creative? When do our minds, bodies and spirits flourish? How do we thrive?

What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created TEDx, a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

TEDxCambridge draws from the amazing wealth of innovation, passion and inspiration in Cambridge and the greater Boston area.

Public Media Systems Workshop

November 1st, 2011

Join the Broadcaster Project, a friend of the LAB,  for a FREE informal workshop and working group around media systems.

What will happen?
We will discuss media systems. Things like television, internet, magazines, blogs, etc. We will view them with several lens including consumption/production, parallel/serial, horizontal/vertical, local/global, centralized/distributed, community/personal. We will then discuss small actions and cover how any new or old computer can become a local information server, a shared public appliance. Using free software, we will go over several ways you can accomplish this. You can do some physical building of a structures to house your device and we can talk about local venues that might house your unit as well. From cafes, music venues, to occupy boston.

Where: Industry Lab coworking space. 288 Norfolk St, 4th Floor. Near Inman Sq, Cambrij.
When: 5 Wednesdays in November, 7-9pm. Nov 1,8,15,22,29

For more information click here

RSVP to dan:
broadcasterproject@plebiandesign.com

If you are interested but can’t make the time, you can still email and maybe some additional one-off sessions will be held at other times.

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