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Argus Installation

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installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

A group of people using glass and filters to create shapes with light onto the wall.

The team works on the heart of the Argus Installation, the optical system featuring handblown glass discs.

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Argus Installation

installation
installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

A group of people using glass and filters to create shapes with light onto the wall.

The team works on the heart of the Argus Installation, the optical system featuring handblown glass discs.

Argus Installation

installation
installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

The team works on the heart of the Argus Installation, the optical system featuring handblown glass discs.

Argus Installation

installation
installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

The team works on the heart of the Argus Installation, the optical system featuring handblown glass discs.

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Argus Installation

installation
installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

The team works on the heart of the Argus Installation, the optical system featuring handblown glass discs.

Argus Installation

installation
installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

A group of people using glass and filters to create shapes with light onto the wall.

The team works on the heart of the Argus Installation, the optical system featuring handblown glass discs.

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Argus Installation

Argus Installation

installation
installation
Mar 12, 13, 14
6:00–10:00pm
Peter Houk, Seth Riskin, Kevin Dunnell, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Quentin Bolsee
Venue:
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150
MIT Museum Studio, 10-150

A collaboration between members of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center explores the stunning interplay of light and hand-blown glass. Featuring a projection system that magnifies the intricate structures within the glass—traces of its handmade creation—the installation transforms these microscopic details into an immersive, room-scale experience.

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In the MIT tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration, Argus Installation engages the people and expertise of the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum Studio, Media Lab, and Edgerton Center. This project is all about human vision: multiple perspectives, the malleability of seeing, and seeing as a human creative act with responsibilities and learning potential.

At the center of the installation is an original optical system using a variation on Schlieren imaging and handmade glass optical discs. At the center of the room, a "seeing machine" with hundreds of "eyes" functions as a camera obscura in reverse.

Complex optical events inside the sculpture project through apertures into the surrounding environment, immersing viewers in articulations of light and color that shape their perceptions of the space.

Argus Installation in the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery. Credit HErickson/MIT.
Argus Installation in the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery. Credit HErickson/MIT.
Argus Installation in the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery. Credit HErickson/MIT.
Argus Installation in the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery. Credit HErickson/MIT.
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This project is presented by the MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, and Edgerton Center.

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