MIT Open Documentary Lab

Updated graphic: The event is Monday, June 15, 6:30–8 PM.

✨ Artist Talk at Cambridge Public Library ✨

Join the MIT Open Documentary Lab and IXRDC for a public talk with Peabody-nominated and Emmy award-winning director Michaela Ternasky-Holland

🎥 Navigating the Crossroads: When Art and Technology Intersects and Diverges
📍 Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
🗓 Monday, June 15
⏰ 6:30–8 PM

Part of Libraries as Immersive Storytelling Hubs.

Upcoming VR Pop-Ups at other MA libraries:
📍 Mattapan Public Library — June 24 & July 14
📍 Medford Public Library — July 13 & July 27

Upcoming artist talks and workshops:
✨ Michèle Stephenson , Emmy award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author
✨ Sister Sylvester , multimedia artist
✨ L’Merchie Frazier , multidisciplinary artist, educator, and poet

Learn more: opendoclab.mit.edu/presents/libraries

✨HAPPENING NEXT WEEK AT ROBBINS LIBRARY IN ARLINGTON✨

The MIT Open Documentary Lab and IXRDC (Independent XR Distribution Coalition) presents a Artist Talk at Robbins Library, Arlington:
🎥Art as Ecosystem: Rethinking Immersive Media Through Community and Care: Immersive storytelling as a community-centered practice that transforms technology into a tool for connection, care, and collective voice.
About the artist: Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-American immersive filmmaker, futurist, and cultural activist whose “Art as Ecosystem” methodology uses long-term community engagement and co-creation to reimagine social systems across differences while expanding access to emerging technologies.
📍 Robbins Library, Community Room, 700 Mass Ave, Arlington, MA
🗓 Thursday, June 4 | 6-7:30 PM

Part of Libraries as Immersive Storytelling Hubs, a civic research initiative by the MIT Open Documentary Lab exploring how public libraries can become spaces for immersive storytelling, community engagement, and new ways of knowing.

Upcoming VR Pop-Ups at other MA libraries:
📍 Robbins Library — June 6
📍 Boston Public Library: Mattapan Branch — June 24 & July 14
📍 Medford Public Library — July 13 & July 27

And more to come…

Upcoming artist talks and workshops:
✨ Michaela Ternasky-Holland , Peabody-nominated & Emmy award-winning director

✨ Michèle Stephenson , Emmy award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author
✨ Sister Sylvester , multimedia artist
✨ L’Merchie Frazier , American artist, educator, and poet

With generous support from

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