There will be a 2-day workshop on Sound/Movement/AI, co-taught by Grisha Coleman (Professor in Movement/Science&Technology Studies, joining MIT this Spring 🎉) and Anna Huang (Professor in Music, EECS), now scheduled for Jan 26 (M) and 28 (W). Sign up here to join and to learn more!

 Including guided movement and voice sessions, readings and discussions, along with 'hackathon' sessions with sound models. There will be food!

*Important note: Wear comfortable/warm clothes (layers are best!) that you feel happy laying on the floor – as well as everyone bring a computer.

Dates: Jan 26 (Monday) and 28 (Wednesday) [time TBD]

Who: Calling for musicians, dancers, improvisers, choreographers, theater folk, designers, writers, creative coders and engineers, as well as students of anthropology, STS (science, technology, and society), philosophy, history. In this course we will practice, build, and critically reflect on our practice; which calls for a interdisciplinary cohort. Folks from MIT, Harvard, Wellesley etc. are all welcome!

Where: Theater building (W97)

We will be limiting the number of participants to emphasize a focused and intimate group. Sign up by Thursday (Jan 22th) 5pm and we'll let you know by Friday (Jan 23th) noon! 

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Context: 

Grisha and Anna will be co-teaching a new class in Fall 2026. This workshop will help shape how we approach the class.

Course title: Alignments of Attention: Creative Practice across Systems

Description: This class proposes that the study of sound and movement systems can inform how we build and envision computational systems, particularly our relationship to AIs.

AIs are built on models of learning in an effort to "mirror" our processes of learning as human beings. This class is interested in a multiplicity of approaches to understand and intervene in the creative and practices of both human expression and computational learning. We explore metaphoric, material and process based synchronicity across learning systems.

What will we do in class to research these potentials? Why would it make a difference both to the creative practices, the technological developments, and most crucially, the reflective potential for the network/interaction? These questions and more will be posed and generated during the course of the workshop - please join us!