https://mlml.io/events/ Recent events on metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel en-US Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:28:33 +0000 https://mlml.io/e/postscriptumobservatory/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/postscriptumobservatory/ workshop The Postscript Observatory is a temporary sound installation, publishing experiment, and listening protocol developed by continent. as a parallel intervention within Echoes of Authority (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, March 24–27, 2026). Situated in the Collegium’s small historic observatory tower—a circular domed space originally designed for astronomical attention—the project reimagines the observatory as an acoustic instrument. Rather than looking outward toward celestial bodies, The Postscriptum Observatory listens inward and sideways: to the margins, hesitations, and after-effects of speech. https://mlml.io/e/heavy-is-the-root-of-light/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/heavy-is-the-root-of-light/ talk Artist talk: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm CET | 11:30 to 12:30 am EST Free admission to the exhibition: 5:00 pm CET The meeting-link for online participation For attendance at PalaisPopulaire, please register here. Charmaine Poh is going to introduce the philosophical underpinnings of the solo exhibition, “Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take.” “Heavy is the root of light” is a line from the Daoist text, the Dao De Jing, and is quite symbolic of the seemingly contradicting imagery that the text is centred on. https://mlml.io/e/ai-design-for-ocean-solutions-2026/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 -0500 https://mlml.io/e/ai-design-for-ocean-solutions-2026/ event Climate change and human industrialization are having an accelerating negative impact on the ocean, the source of life and water on earth, which covers 71% of the planet. This hands-on course will bring generative AI tools and design interventions to one of our biggest climate challenges today: the ocean. Through a series of short lectures and design-thinking activities, we will use generative AI tools to engage creatively with select topics in marine and climate science. https://mlml.io/e/reflections-on-decolonial-data/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/reflections-on-decolonial-data/ talk This is a hybrid event taking place at the Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Online participation is welcome via the link of this event page. For attendance in Berlin, please register by mailing to regina.ziegler@@fu-berlin.de Location: Hörsaal at the Institute for Theater Studies Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstraße 35 12165 Berlin In this artist talk, Nora Al-Badri will explore colonial museum collections and narratives by examining their data through an anti-colonial lens. https://mlml.io/e/designassignments/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/designassignments/ event We invite you – educators, practitioners, scholars, researchers, and peers from a variety of fields in design (such as Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Transformation Design, Social Design, Game Design, Fashion Design, Scenographic Design, Product and Industrial Design, Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture) to share a design assignment you consider poetic, playful, thought-provoking, joyful, boundary-pushing, or else, that prompts, probes, prototypes, invites, immerses, imagines collaborative future worlds. We are interested in applied and engaged approaches to teaching design. https://mlml.io/e/algorithmic-altruism/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/algorithmic-altruism/ talk Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. She experiments with simulation, representation, and the nonhuman perspective to question our ongoing societal fixation on innovation over preservation. Based at Somerset House Studios in London, her work has been exhibited at leading institutions including MoMA in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2023, she won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Artistic Exploration for her experimental interspecies artwork Pollinator Pathmaker. https://mlml.io/e/technology-democracy-and-the-rule-of-law/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:00:00 -0500 https://mlml.io/e/technology-democracy-and-the-rule-of-law/ talk How are technologies being misused to undermine democratic processes? Where might we have leverage to steer things back on course? What can we expect to see over the next few years, and what can we do about it? Please join us for a fireside chat about how technology and democracy both support and undermine each other. Moderated by Sarah Newman. Event Details Date & Time: Monday, November 10, 2025 @ 4:00–5:00 PM Location: Berkman Klein Center, 1557 Massachusetts Avenue, 5th Floor In-person is open to Harvard ID holders. https://mlml.io/e/humanities-futures/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:30:00 -0400 https://mlml.io/e/humanities-futures/ talk A conversation about the future of the Humanities between the directors of metaLAB Harvard, Berlin, and Basel – in dialogue with Humanities Dean Sean Kelly, Harvard Professor Peter Bol, Columbia Professor Dennis Tenen. Schedule 4:30-6 pm ET: Houghton Library (Newman & Edison Room) Roundtable Discussion 6:30-8 pm ET: Reception at metaLAB (42 Kirkland St) Speakers Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Sean Kelly, Harvard Peter Bol & Kwok-Leong Tang, Harvard Dennis Tenen, Columbia Dario Rodighiero, University of Groningen Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin Aylin Tschoepe, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW Opening remarks by Tom Hyry (Director of Houghton Library) RSVP here https://mlml.io/e/metabolic-commons/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/metabolic-commons/ talk A Metabolic Commons: Many Hands Make Light Work is a collaborative media work by WorkOverTime (Louise Carver & Jamie Allen), presented at the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2 October – 8 December 2025) within the Lighter exhibition curated by Territorial Agency at MAC/CCB. The single-channel video combines layered soundscapes, poetic narration, and situated field recordings to explore how bodies, infrastructures, labour, and love shape our shared metabolisms. Filmed and researched across copper mines in Chile, sugar ports in the UK, fishing villages in Malta, and speculative blockchain forests of the future, the project creates an ethnographic fiction reflecting on reciprocity, ecological limits, and planetary commons. https://mlml.io/e/narrative-intelligence/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:30:00 -0400 https://mlml.io/e/narrative-intelligence/ talk Description In this talk, Dennis Yi Tenen will draw on his recent book Literary Theory for Robots (2024) to offer a broad view of the shared pasts of literature and computer science, ranging from medieval Arabic philosophy to Hollywood fiction factories, to missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. Then, he will present new work that puts large language models into conversation with one another—literally—to study their techniques of persuasion.