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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

During the next two weeks, we’ll have in-person: 🎧 Artist-led tours 🛠️ Workshops and Artists Conversations 🎤 Evening symposium ✨ Made by an incredible international group of artists part of MIT @opendoclab AR and Public Space Artist Collective Book tours: opendoclab.mit.edu/presents/lay...

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Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality Exhibition - MIT Open Documentary Lab

Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through Augmented Reality Experience 7 augmented reality projects in the exhibit from April 7 – 18, 2025. To book a tour with our artists and...

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Join us: 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through AR 📆 April 7–18, 2025 📍MIT Explore MIT’s public spaces through seven site-specific AR works that surface hidden histories, speculative futures, and the many layered realities of place.

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Layers of Place: MIT

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today: Public talk (online) with Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde: Bush of Ghosts: Spirits, Community, and Technology in the Co-Creation of Nigeria’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Memorialization 📅 Tue, Apr 1: 12-1:30PM ET 🔗 Join via Zoom on our website link below opendoclab.mit.edu/4-1-25-ayoda...

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4/1/25 Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde - MIT Open Documentary Lab

In conversation (online) with: Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde Tuesday | April 1, 2025 | 12PM – 1:30PM ET Bush of Ghosts: Spirits, Community, and Technology in the Co-Creation of Nigeria’s Transatlantic...

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Lori Landay @loirl.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Using the Hoverlay app for my augmented reality project in MIT’s #artfinity festival. @opendoclab.bsky.social #hoverlayar

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

ASL interpretation and Closed Captions will be included.

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Session will explore the artistry of audio description, artistic closed captions, & innovative haptics design. Sharing our approach to disability aesthetics, the panel will offer general techniques for creators interested in making accessible work & for programmers interested in reaching audiences.

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Our conversation will share technical innovations to produce ground-breaking aesthetic access from pre-production to virtual worldbuilding. We will also discuss a case study of our production: “territory” which is an equitably accessible VR experience.

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🚀 If you are in Austin on Sunday, join us at SXSW for a panel “Aesthetic Access for VR: Centering Disabled Artistry” at 10 AM CT featuring the groundbreaking work of Kinetic Light and Double Eye Studios and moderated by OpenDocLab director @sarahwolozin.bsky.social schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

📣 Announcing the MIT OpenDocLab & MIT Co-Creation Studio Spring 2025 Lecture Series! ✨ Join us on select Tuesdays at 12PM ET. See poster for speakers. More to be announced! 💻 All lectures will be livestreamed via Zoom. If you’re unable to attend, recordings will be posted on our website.

MIT Open Documentary Lab & MIT Co-Creation Studio Spring 2025 Lecture Series: Online on Tuesdays 12PM - 1:30PM ET:

Feb 25 – Verity McIntosh, Director and Principal Investigator of Immersive Arts, Associate Professor at University of the West of England and Catherine Allen, CEO of Limina Immersive
Mar 18 – Nouf Aljowaysir, New Media Artist and Researcher
Apr 1 – Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Nigerian-American Artist, Designer, Technologist, Anthropologist and Time-Traveler

More lectures to be added throughout the semester.

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🌍 WORLDING 2025 is a collaborative effort of the MIT Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab, @iso-bea.bsky.social (ISO), and @mitmedialab.bsky.social, generously funded by @weareagog.bsky.social: The Immersive Media Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and JustFilms at Ford Foundation.

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🌱 WORLDING 2025 is a project of MIT Co-Creation Studio at Open Doc Lab, in collab with Indigenous Screen Office @iso-bea.bsky.social, & MIT Media Lab @mitmedialab.bsky.social, with generous support from Agog @weareagog.bsky.social, MacArthur Foundation, & Just Films at @fordfoundation.bsky.social

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Indigenous-led projects and perspectives are at the core of WORLDING. 🌊 More announcements coming soon.

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🌍 WORLDING explores how virtual environments bridge storytelling with placemaking, community wisdom, and climate science. The 2025 in-person incubator at MIT in January will explore social XR, data visualization, and Indigenous-led stories to build a just and thriving climate future.

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📣 WORLDING is back!

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚀 Join us for a public talk (online) with May Abdalla, co-founder of the award-winning immersive studio Anagram, on Developing & Testing Immersive Experience to Create Impact 📅 Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, 12PM ET 🔗 Link in bio #ImmersiveStorytelling #MixedReality #VR #HealthAndTech #ADHD #MITOpenDocLab

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MIT Open Documentary Lab @opendoclab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hello BlueSky! 🌟 MIT Open Documentary Lab and Co-Creation Studio here! We bring technologists, storytellers and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary. Follow what our fellows do & join us for our insightful public talks! #documentary #innovation 🎥✨

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