MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014 Activities by Sponsor - Seth D. Riskin



Multimedia Origami or The Origami of Light

Seth Riskin, Manager, Holography and Spatial Imaging Initiative

Jan/08 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/10 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/13 Mon 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/15 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/17 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/22 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/24 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/27 Mon 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/29 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150
Jan/31 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM 10-150

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

The MIT Museum has just opened a new space for creation and display: the MIT Museum Studio. It's right off the Infinite Corridor and opposite the Memorial Lobby. For IAP 2014, the Museum Studio is hosting “Multimedia Origami or the Origami of Light”, a collaborative project open to the entire MIT community that will result in an inaugural art installation in the Museum Studio’s large display window.

“Multimedia Origami or the Origami of Light" will explore the potential of origami in combination with other media and materials. Examples are the use of actuators to animate origami objects, or the use of light to add color, dimensionality and light's own inherent geometry to the installation. The medium of light will play a special role in the project, interconnecting and relating origami objects into a cohesive artwork.

No experience necessary. Open Studio most IAP Modays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1-4PM. Bring your ideas and imagination and help create a luminous window of origami innovation for all MIT to see.

Contact: Seth Riskin, N52-MUSEUM, 617 253-4405, RISKIN@MIT.EDU