Keynote Presentation: Tod Machover
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Keynote Presentation: Tod Machover

Tod Machover has been called “America’s most wired composer” by the Los Angeles Times. He is Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab, and Director of the Lab’s Opera of the Future Group. Machover is widely recognized as one of the world’s most significant and innovative composers, and is also celebrated for inventing new technology for music, from “Hyperinstruments” for virtuosic musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma and Prince to the technologies behind Guitar Hero, which grew out of his Lab. Machover studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris. Machover is particularly known for his visionary operas, including the Philip K. Dick-based VALIS, the audience-interactive Brain Opera, and the “robotic” Pulitzer Prize-finalist Death and the Powers, which will be released on CD and DVD in 2015. Machover is currently working on a series of collaborative City-Symphonies, inviting communities around the globe to work with him to make meaningful musical portraits of that place and time. After critically acclaimed City-Symphonies in Toronto, Edinburgh and Perth, 2015 will see new works created in Detroit and Lucerne, where Machover will be Composer-in-Residence for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015.

Location: Arts @ 29 Garden
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Location: Arts @ 29 Garden

Arts @ 29 Garden is a space intended to support and enable creativity, collaboration, experimentation and art-making amongst faculty, students and visiting artists at Harvard University.

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Art, Technology, Psyche will be hosted at the Arts @ 29 Garden building at Harvard University, located at 29 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA. For additional location information, please see below.

 

 

Project Tango: Cartographer (Luke Hollis)
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Project Tango: Cartographer (Luke Hollis)

With increasing interest in three-dimensional modeling and augmented reality (AR) exhibits in the archaeological and anthropological fields, the Project Tango initiative by Google’s Advanced Technology And Projects group (ATAP) provides unprecedented opportunities for combining powerful three-dimensional scanning with area learning to reconstruct excavations and build AR experiences for museum and site visitors. The Cartographer application currently being developed by Archimedes Digital for the Contrada Agnese Project utilizes the Project Tango tablet’s three-dimensional modeling and area learning capabilities to record trench models for a fraction of the cost of conventional desktop or area scanning equipment. The area scans captured by Cartographer are georeferenced and enable easy construction of Harris matrices and stratigraphic data. Development is currently ongoing in collaboration with Prof. Alex Walthall, director of the Contrada Agnese Project excavations, for visualization of scan data with WebGL for browser-based exploration and annotation. Initial field-testing of the Cartographer App will take place this summer during the 2015 season of the Contrada Agnese Project at the ancient Greek city of Morgantina (Sicily).