Intelligent Lighting for Live Performance

Principal Investigator
Joshua Higgason, Music and Theatre Arts
Fund: Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period: AY2023
Department/Lab/Center: Music and Theater Arts

This project seeks to improve student learning by integrating intelligent lighting fixtures into the Music and Theater Arts building at W97. Students will learn to use these tools to create more dynamic and active lighting designs, and to think about the future uses of light to shape physical space and environments around us. This equipment will give students access to lighting tools that are very common across the current field but are currently lacking access to at MIT, and open them up to thinking about new ways that light can interact with their environment.