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Hyperion Shakespeare Company directors during audition
Sept. 2018. The-then Hyperion Shakespeare Company directors (Judy F. Durkin '22, Claire M. Rivkin '19, Johnathan R. Creed '20) selecting the cast for the fall 2018 scene recital, "Twelfth Pint."
Div School Tree
A century-old tree at the Divinity School was cut down last week after months of debate.
Marielle Franco Protest
A memorial honors the one-year anniversary of Marielle Franco's killing in Brazil. Franco was a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro and an activist for women's and BGLTQ rights.
Moral Labyrinth at Metalab
Sarah Newman has worked on multiple versions of the Moral Labyrinth, using varied mediums including blue and yellow spray chalk, sticky vinyl, and baking powder.
Curricle Diagram
metaLAB's most recent project, Curricle, is a new and interactive course guide for Harvard students. Curricle is "a platform of digital tools that maps the Harvard curriculum through elegant data visualizations."
Curricle Departments
Curricle allows users to search for courses by keywords, departments professor networks, and learning styles. Through interactive visual graphics and knowledge networks, Curricle aims to make the course selection process more engaging for students.
Sarah Newman
Sarah Newman, a Senior Researcher for metaLAB, describes her work as a Venn diagram in which the three circles are technology, art, and the humanities. She prefers the term "New Media" to "Digital Humanities," as she thinks it is more a more accurate depiction of metaLAB's work.
Secrets at Metalab
In the analog version of "Secrets," a labeled wooden box in the center of a glass elevator in MIT's Media Lab asks passers-by to record a secret. Once the secret is deposited, a sensor in the box is triggers a voice to read a separate, pre-recorded secret aloud. This installation aimed to encourage viewers to consider the nature of secrets and privacy in an increasingly digitized world.
Moral Labyrinth Metalab
Sarah Newman shows the first version of the Moral Labyrinth, a series of ten foot red wall panels displayed in a Berlin museum. This interactive ethical and philosophical installation plays with ideas of permanence, interactivity, and space through its use of material.
Japanese Studies Forum
Professor Williams came to Harvard for a launching event at the Japanese Studies Forum.
Smith Center Homelessness
The Smith Campus Center has policies that prohibit individuals from sleeping in its common spaces.
HPT 171 Book writers
This year's Hasty Pudding book writers, Michael Perusse ('20) and Max Weiss ('20), talk about their favorite lines from "France France Revolution."
