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Visitors play in the Gradated Field, one of the many FAST installations that appeared on campus in early May. Gradated Field was a collection of smooth, white plaster mounds formed by latex sheets.

Wind Screen, installed by Associate Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon in April for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival, is on display in the archway below the Green Building. Each subunit is a wind turbine that gener...

The final preparations are made to aFloat, an interactive installation in the MIT Chapel that simulated ripples in a pool of flickering lights.

Inflatable stars soar above Killian Court during FAST Light on May 7. The sculptures were designed by Otto Piene, Director Emeritus of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

Visitors explore the Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House, a freestanding pavilion constructed from laminated plywood. The inside of the structure is illuminated with flexible LED strips. It was created by Nick Gelpi,...

Visitors mingle around Light Drift by Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon. The color-changing orbs encouraged people to interact with each other and with the river, as touching the orbs on land affected the color...

LightBridge lights up the Harvard Bridge on the evening of May 7. In this interactive display, participants were able to design their own light effects online and see them displayed during FAST Light.

Liquid Archive by Head of the Department of Architecture Nader Tehrani and Professor of Visual Arts Gediminas Urbonas extends Killian Court into the Charles River. During FAST Light last weekend, an hour-long program ...

The colorful, plastic bubbles of Light Drift glow vivid blue and green in the dark. Light Drift was installed along the Charles River for the MIT150 FAST Light festival last weekend.

MIT seen from Boston (left to right): LightBridge, SKY Event, Liquid Archive, and Light Drift were installed along the Charles River for the MIT150 FAST Light festival last weekend. For more photos, see p. 12.

Visitors play in the Gradated Field, one of the many FAST installations on campus. The Gradated Field is a collection of smooth, white plaster mounds formed by latex sheets. Visitors are encouraged to wander and loung...

SOFT Rockers, installed by a team led by Professor of Architecture Sheila Kennedy, are clean energy charging stations disguised as outdoor furniture. Both the lighted loop and the chargers are powered by solar energy ...

Transparent inflatable arches were installed on Killian Court on the day of FAST Light. For SKY Event, which was installed on the evening of May 7, they connected to that work’s large inflatable stars.

Kaustuv K. De Biswas G and Daniel Rosenberg G, the developers of Maxwell’s Dream: Painting with Light, stand in front of their creation. Over 600 exhibit visitors played with a magnetic field to create light on May 8.

The theme of this year’s 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) competition was “MIT’s Greatest Hacks” in honor of the Institute’s 150th anniversary. The four tasks that the teams’ robots had to complete were placing a po...

“Mood Meters,” a FAST Art Festival installation, have taken up residence in the Infinite Corridor, the Stata Center, the Media Lab, and the first floor of the Student Center.