Fast Light
The campus glowed on May 7 and 8 for FAST Light, part of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science, and Technology (FAST). Maxwell’s Dream (above), by architecture grad students Kaustuv De Biwas and Daniel Rosenberg, let viewers play with a magnetic field to “paint” with light.
Above artworks created at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies were projected onto Liquid Archive, an inflatable screen on the Charles River that was designed by architecture faculty members Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas. In the background, Light Bridge, by Susanne Seitinger and Pol Pla of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, illuminated the Harvard Bridge with a 10,000-pixel display activated by sensors detecting viewers’ movements.
Keep Reading
Most Popular
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.
OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora
The firm is sharing Sora with a small group of safety testers but the rest of us will have to wait to learn more.
Google’s Gemini is now in everything. Here’s how you can try it out.
Gmail, Docs, and more will now come with Gemini baked in. But Europeans will have to wait before they can download the app.
This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language
A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent.
Stay connected
Get the latest updates from
MIT Technology Review
Discover special offers, top stories, upcoming events, and more.