Events
Events for Wednesday, February 15, 2023
10:30 am
Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament – Cassandra Xin Guan, The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology
The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time around​ the hot and noisy masses that thrilled American television viewers with … Continued
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