Fusion -Workshop @ Taiwan

Date: August 23 Thu, 24 Fri, 25 Sat, 26 Sun
Location: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Host: MIT Media Laboratory, Taiwan Workshop, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
A tangle of senses, Taiwanese nightmarkets entice through their crowded streets, delicious people, interesting people, and motley of trinkets and toys. As a condensed and scaled down representation of a larger culture, this miniaturized landscape makes for an interesting terrain for analysis and invention. The Taiwanese Nightmarket Workshop is a hands-on and theoretical seminar that involves its participants in an artistic and technological engagement with the urban environment. This year's theme – fusion – embraces notions of cultural, disciplinary, and perspectival hybridity.
For 2007, we invited various MIT researchers from the Media Laboratory, CSAIL, Department of Architecture, and Visual Arts Program. Students and researchers will form four different groups, including Group 1-Narration, Group 2-Urban Playground, Group 3-Urban Dynamics, and Group 4-Urban Music.

Please contact Jackie Lee for more information. Send email to jackylee@media.mit.edu
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