LabCAST – The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast



“Transform the traditional dissertation. In the arts and humanities, where looming cutbacks will be most devastating, there is no longer a market for books modeled on the medieval dissertation, with more footnotes than text. As financial pressures on university presses continue to mount, publication of dissertations, and with it scholarly certification, is almost impossible. (The average university press print run of a dissertation that has been converted into a book is less than 500, and sales are usually considerably lower.) For many years, I have taught undergraduate courses in which students do not write traditional papers but develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games. Graduate students should likewise be encouraged to produce “theses” in alternative formats.” (Mark C. Taylor. April 26, 2009)


Bart Hess

“Bart Hess is working for himself exploring several fields that straddle textile, fashion and animation, these fall within the commercial and art world.”

“A typographic experiment playing with the “Parallax Effect”, light-perspective distortion and shadow. The final piece was an intallation in a cubed room, combining a rotating light source and dispersed, hanging pixel-blocks in order to project words on the surrounding walls.”

By Max Parsons and Arran Gregory

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“The goal of the FACETS (Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States) project is to create a theoretical and experimental foundation for the realisation of novel computing paradigms which exploit the concepts experimentally observed in biological nervous systems.”


RoboFab is a Python library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design.

“Structure Synth is an application for creating 3D structures from a set of user specified rules”

“The Beta, tbeta for short, is a open source/cross-platform solution for computer vision and multi-touch sensing. “


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