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| ©1998, Liang-Wu Cai |
Pay Toilet, uh.., The Media Lab
On the eastern campus along the Ames Street is this quite impersonal yet-another-Pei's-work Weisner Building (Building E15). When the construction was near complete, hackers mocked the entance of the bulding and put up a sign of Pay (Pei) Toliet. The building hosts MIT's Media Lab, which is generally regarded as most non-MIT-like lab as both to its shell and its contents. On the news that the Media Lab is taking over a smaller building that hosts the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science (Course 9), MIT's student newspaper The Tech on December 9, 1997 ran a full page of 3 column articles, with titles such as Otherworldly Media Lab Doesn't Amount to Much plus a large negative image of the lab, bashing the Media Lab and its director. Weisner Building also hosts MIT's List Student Visual Arts Center.
March 26, 1998Nikon N90s with Nikkor AF 85mm f/1.8D; 1/50" at f/8. Manual exposure; spot metering. Film: Fujichrome Velvia (ISO 50).