The evening is designed as a one-night-only fun and active way to move about campus and see different films in three different locations: Olin 104, where visitors can also stop in the museum to view “Exploding Native Inevitable” and find light refreshments; Commons Lounge; and the new Immersive Media Studio in Coram Library. Pick up a brochure at any station to guide you around campus, learn more about the films, and collect stickers at each location to enter to win a prize for seeing them all. The event is free and open to the public. All films take roughly an…
“By having an exhibit like this, we can raise the awareness of what we know is in the deep sea, and what the ecosystems look like, and do research on them, and then share this awareness with people so that they will connect and hopefully care about conserving these areas,” Droge said.
It was an arts night to remember. Coram Library was lit up to mark the open house for the new Immersive Media Studio. Known as the IMStudio, the windowless room on the ground floor is equipped with museum-quality projection and sound equipment. The first installation, “Beyond Midnight,” up through January, features the work of faculty members, Michel Droge, Carolina González Valencia, and Asha Tamirisa, and on Dec. 7, all were welcome.
Scheduled for a fall 2023 opening, the college’s new Immersive Media Studio — a focal point of a major new arts and technology project funded by a $500,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation — will occupy a prime spot right at the center of the campus.