Opening Celebration of The Laboratory at Harvard - Experiments in the Arts and Sciences :: November 8, 2009 :: Exhibition: 6:30 pm @ Northwest Science Building, 52 Oxford Street :: Performance of Ryoji Ikeda’s datamatics [ver.2.0]: 9:00 pm @ Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Cambridge, MA.

THE LABORATORY, conceived around the model of the art and design center Le Laboratoire in Paris, France, opens with a catalogue and text installation developed through a recent Laboratoire experiment V≠L — between the Japanese digital composer Ryoji Ikeda and the Harvard mathematician Benedict Gross.

Among the student ideas exhibited from the September opening as works in progress are:

• Lebone, a new for-profit and nonprofit platform for developing lighting solutions to sub-Saharan Africa;
• MuseTrek, a new Internet website and handheld technology platform for rethinking how we experience museums;
• Le Whif, a new way of eating by aerosol and commercialized internationally in the form of inhaled chocolate
• GIGUE, an exciting, interactive audio-visual installation that exhibits the naturally musical processes of the human body through the media of music, dance, and theater;
• StreetScapes Theatre, a novel technological idea to take theatre out of traditional theatrical spaces and engage the public as actors;
• LifeCell, a new way of transporting and filtering water in low-income parts of the world based on the principles of biological cell structure and Buckminster Fuller’s ideas of tensegrity;
  
• Soccket, a novel way of generating power and educating youth in the developing world through sport;
• VertiGrow, an idea for providing unique ‘urban farming’ options suited to the needs of developing world slum or shanty town environments.