[620] in UA Senate
Re: the Sweat Lodge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Hilk)
Mon Apr 12 16:49:49 2010
In-Reply-To: <v2p2a9ffd211004121328h62904663ga23b1a54ffef775e@mail.gmail.com>
From: Ted Hilk <thilk@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:49:25 -0400
To: Ashley Nash <trashleynash@gmail.com>, UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Ashley Nash <trashleynash@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> In order to get funding from their sources, they agreed to have a
> photographer and videographer capture images and video respectively for t=
he
> event, so that the people who supplied the funding could have them.
>
> Ashley
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Ted Hilk <thilk@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> The photographer line says "in contract with funding organization."
>> Details?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Tim Jenks <trjenks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The few things that I've seen about this event publicize this event as =
an
>>> interaction between students or the MIT community and the artists. So =
if
>>> this is what we're debating on funding, why is a photographer and
>>> videographer necessary? I fail to see the benefits of spending $1500 o=
n a
>>> photographer, when he doesn't relate to the experience the students or
>>> community would receive from attending the event.
>>>
>>> Also I think we should consider the FPRC guidelines and some of the
>>> things we talked about with the MassCPR bill. (minutes:
>>> http://web.mit.edu/ua/minutes/UAS41/2010-03-29.pdf)
>>>
>>> --Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Nicole D Teague <nteague@mit.edu>wrote=
:
>>>
>>>> In addition to the points Keone has mentioned\\, the LEF/ARCADE turned
>>>> down this event because of the huge amount of money being budgeted to
>>>> publicity ($1000) and photo and video documentation ($1500). These are
>>>> unnecessary expenses whose total exceeds the amount they requested fro=
m LEF.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Keone Hon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here's the application submitted to LEF/ARCADE, since you guys asked.
>>>>> Also see the PDF, which is a bit more descriptive than the one
>>>>> attached in this thread before.
>>>>>
>>>>> The event was turned down by LEF due to timing issues (it is Fri May
>>>>> 21, the last day of finals week) and questions about whether they
>>>>> could really draw 1000 attendees as claimed, especially during that
>>>>> time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Although some events do take place during/after finals week, but they
>>>>> are typically related to finals week (Medlinks), or are very small,
>>>>> tight-knit groups (BGSA). The events that take place after finals
>>>>> week are held in grad dormitories, which essentially eliminates the
>>>>> draw concern.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Board: LEF
>>>>> Event name: Sweat Lodge
>>>>> Sponsoring group: SOCS
>>>>>
>>>>> Total attendance: 1,000
>>>>> MIT student attendance: 65%
>>>>>
>>>>> Funding request: 2733
>>>>> Total budget: 6700
>>>>> Other funding sources:
>>>>> 2150 from Council for the Arts
>>>>> 1484 from de Florez Humor Fund
>>>>>
>>>>> Date: 5/21/10 Time: 36 hours
>>>>> Location: In the courtyard beteween the Media Lab and Medical
>>>>> Buildings
>>>>>
>>>>> Other information:
>>>>> * met with SAO
>>>>> * location IS reserved
>>>>> * WAS held previously
>>>>>
>>>>> Event description: Sweat Lodge
>>>>> Graduate and undergraduate students from the ASA club Society of
>>>>> Creatives (SOCS) and MIT's programs in Architecture, Art, Culture, &
>>>>> Technology, and Media Arts & Sciences are organizing a month long
>>>>> inflatable intervention on the MIT campus this spring. Happening over
>>>>> three themed days, "Construct," "Experience," and "De-Construct,"
>>>>> Sweat Lodge will be a nexus of performances, happenings, structures,
>>>>> workshops, lectures, discussions and experiences focusing on social
>>>>> and sensory perception. Sweat Lodge will be a platform for MIT
>>>>> students pursuing independent creative work to showcase that work to
>>>>> and collaborate with the communities of MIT, Cambridge, and Boston.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sweat Lodge will not actually be a sweat lodge in the native American
>>>>> or Nordic sense! The name is a metaphor for the types of sensory and
>>>>> social experiences we are interested in engineering, and a pun on the
>>>>> fact that inflatables tend to get hot and stinky inside when occupied=
.
>>>>> The traditional sweat lodge is a place for individuals to come
>>>>> together and share in a collective experience through which community
>>>>> is constructed. Our conceptual focus on social and sensory perception
>>>>> in relation to public performance, society, and the built environment
>>>>> will facilitate similar experiential opportunities for the
>>>>> participants. Sweat Lodge will create social, collaborative and
>>>>> community opportunities for the MIT campus to actively explore
>>>>> creative practices and activities facilitated by artists, designers,
>>>>> engineers, and scientists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Promotion
>>>>>
>>>>> Sweat Lodge will be inflated during the last weekend of May (Friday -
>>>>> Sunday) in Richard Fleischner's "Courtyard" (the lawn and walkways
>>>>> between the E25, E23, E15, and E14). This location was chosen to
>>>>> maximize our potential audience of passersby due to its high volume o=
f
>>>>> pedestrian traffic from the Kendal T station to central campus.
>>>>> Engaging serendipitously with a broad cross section of campus is
>>>>> fundamental to our mission of flattening barriers between departments=
,
>>>>> disciplines, and people.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition to creating the potential for serendipitous interaction,
>>>>> many of our collaborators have audiences they are already engaged wit=
h
>>>>> who will attend the events. Publicity to these groups is a two-fold
>>>>> strategy of beginning the collaborative dialog, then using
>>>>> word-of-mouth and social media to spread the word. To this end a call
>>>>> for proposals to SOCS, MIT's School of Architecture + Planning and th=
e
>>>>> organizers' social networks in January has engaged creative thinkers
>>>>> from the community to submit ideas for projects. The process of
>>>>> calling for and collecting proposals will continue till April 1st,
>>>>> when we will make curatorial decisions about which proposals to follo=
w
>>>>> through on. Following this, we will use face-to-face interaction,
>>>>> digital invitations, web site documentation, and FaceBook groups to
>>>>> promote the event to our respective audiences and the public. We are
>>>>> also engaged with faculty in the Art, Culture & Technology program wh=
o
>>>>> have promoted the project to undergraduate and graduate students in
>>>>> their classes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Promotion will continue during Sweat Lodge through the distribution o=
f
>>>>> a self-published pamphlet. The pamphlet will be given away for free o=
n
>>>>> site and will contain information about what the Sweat Lodge is, a
>>>>> schedule of its events, and descriptions and artist statements about
>>>>> the activities taking place.
>>>>>
>>>>> Happenings
>>>>>
>>>>> Sweat Lodge will kick-off with "Construct", a series of events about
>>>>> physical and metaphysical constructions. We'll be running free and
>>>>> public events on inflatable techniques for large objects; discussing
>>>>> the politics of appropriated spaces and societies; producing digital
>>>>> maps with helium dirigibles; fabricating tensegrity structures for
>>>>> pedagogy; building tools for public wireless networks; and
>>>>> collaborating to produce a human scale knit object, to name a few.
>>>>>
>>>>> The following day, "Experience", Sweat Lodge will become a nexus of
>>>>> public performance, sound, video, installation, and media events,
>>>>> which will create a variety of experiential environments for audience
>>>>> participants. Proposals for this day are still being gathered, but we
>>>>> have received promising submissions from members of the Society of
>>>>> Creatives (SOCS); students in Antoni Muntadas' Public Art class;
>>>>> students in the program in Media Arts & Sciences; students in the
>>>>> program in Art, Culture, & Technology; and community members from
>>>>> Boston and Cambridge. More details of individual proposals can be
>>>>> provided by request.
>>>>>
>>>>> The final day, "De-Construct", will feature a participatory public
>>>>> deconstruction of the pavilions involving workshops dealing with
>>>>> positive alternatives to Ant Farm=92s (pioneers in inflatable
>>>>> architecture and comedic performance-art) advice to =93burn it=94. Pu=
blic
>>>>> presentations will be staged on site about sustainable material use i=
n
>>>>> art production; re-purposing, re-use, and re-cycling of inflatable
>>>>> objects; multi-media documentation of the prior days' goings-on; and =
a
>>>>> round table panel discussion with the collaborators, curators and
>>>>> community to critique: "What just happened?"
>>>>>
>>>>> Approvals
>>>>>
>>>>> Sweat Lodge consists of a set of single and multiple occupancy modula=
r
>>>>> inflatable pavilions ranging from 3'x3'x9' to 9'x9'x9' (under the siz=
e
>>>>> threshold for building permits) made from fire-retardant plastic. The
>>>>> pavilions will be inflated each morning of the event and deflated for
>>>>> storage each evening. A member of the project management team will be
>>>>> monitoring the installations full-time while they are inflated, and
>>>>> ballasts will be devised to buoy them in place. After the exhibit the
>>>>> pavilions will be stored for future use, donated for re-purposing, or
>>>>> recycled with a vendor. Approval from MIT's EHS office are still
>>>>> pending, but we have already initiated the approval process and are
>>>>> actively working with them to gain approval. Additional site visits
>>>>> are being conducted by MIT's Council for the Arts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Project Management Team
>>>>>
>>>>> The Society of Creatives (SOCS) is a newish (founded Feb 2009)
>>>>> student-run organization for people engaged in creative practices tha=
t
>>>>> exist between the boundaries of Art, Science, Design, and Engineering=
.
>>>>> We organize events like lectures, workshops, art happenings,
>>>>> critiques, exhibitions, and field trips, with the goal of building
>>>>> community across creative disciplines. Sweat Lodge is by far the
>>>>> largest event we have organized to-date, but it is not without
>>>>> precedent. Currently, we run a weekly peer critique group at the Mudd=
y
>>>>> Charles Pub called Negative Feedback, for students who are working on
>>>>> independent creative projects to present their work and receive
>>>>> critical feedback from a multi-disciplinary audience. This semester w=
e
>>>>> inaugurated our second regular event, MIT Creatives, a bi-weekly
>>>>> lecture series about creative thinking and practices happening at MIT=
.
>>>>> Finally, last spring, SOCS's founder and past president, Ryan O'Toole=
,
>>>>> produced a similar event in the same location for Antoni Muntadas's
>>>>> Public Art class called Public Art Bath. Sweat Lodge is a continuatio=
n
>>>>> of that work, but much more grandiose in scope and deeper in its
>>>>> collaborative effort. The principal organizers of Sweat Lodge are Rya=
n
>>>>> O'Toole (MAS '10) and Amanda Moore (ACT '11) supported by the work,
>>>>> ideas, participation, and good will of many other students and facult=
y
>>>>> involved staging the happenings: David Robert (MAS), Sam Kronick
>>>>> (BSAD), Sara Witt (ACT), Mary Hale (ALUM), Brandon Roy (MAS), Nadav
>>>>> Ahrony (MAS), Antoni Muntadas (ACT), Ute Meta Bauer (ACT), Gedeminas
>>>>> Urbonas (ACT), Noah Vawter (MAS), Noah Feehan (MAS), Jeff Warren(MAS)=
,
>>>>> John Buck (LVAC&MassArt), Hannah Perner-Wilson (MAS), Sean Folmer
>>>>> (MAS), Kathryn Payne (MassArt), and others to be announced.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Miscellaneous:
>>>>> Acct# : 2721289
>>>>> Available_funds : 0
>>>>> Performer_Speaker? : no
>>>>> Group_email : sweatlodge@mit.edu
>>>>> Contact : Ryan O'Toole
>>>>> Collaborating_Other_Groups : Students from the programs in Media Art=
s
>>>>> & Sciences, Art Culture & Technology, and Architecture.
>>>>> name : Ryan Michael O'Toole
>>>>> email : rot@mit.edu
>>>>> Contact_email : rot@mit.edu
>>>>> Past_date : 5/15/09
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Keone Hon
>>>>> President, Association of Student Activities | MIT Class of 2011
>>>>> Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Dept. of
>>>>> Mathematics
>>>>> keone@mit.edu | (407) 536-6346
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ashley Nash <ashnash@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's the budget. Whoops
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Ashley Nash <ashnash@mit.edu> wrote=
:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry I didn't send this out earlier. I meant to, but then life
>>>>>>> happened. Anyway, the Sweat Lodge is a new event for MIT. It's a
>>>>>>> three-day
>>>>>>> event (each day over a different weekend) where students can showca=
se
>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>> work. They can install stuff or perform, and this is really awesom=
e
>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>> lots of students like doing cool things, but they don't have the ti=
me
>>>>>>> to do
>>>>>>> their work, and do art and do the bureaucratic stuff they need to d=
o
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> perform, getting the appropriate licenses, dealing with MIT EHS
>>>>>>> (safety
>>>>>>> office) applying for funding, etc. This event will give students t=
he
>>>>>>> chance
>>>>>>> to do cool things and someone else, the event organizers, are doing
>>>>>>> all of
>>>>>>> the paperwork and stuff that the students don't have time to do
>>>>>>> themselves.
>>>>>>> We haven't been spending all that much this term, which translate=
s
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> people aren't doing as much, and so I think that if we could help a
>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>> initiative get off the ground, it would be 1. an awesome thing for
>>>>>>> students
>>>>>>> and 2. would encourage more people to come up with awesome things f=
or
>>>>>>> students.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I attached their budget below. One funding source is listed as ???
>>>>>>> They
>>>>>>> told me who it was, and I forgot, so I put in ???
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you have any questions or information you want, let me know so I
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>> try to make sure it is available before/at Senate.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ashley
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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Theodore Hilk
MIT '13 | thilk@mit.edu | 913.375.6503
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Sloan School of Management
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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Ashley Nash <sp=
an dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:trashleynash@gmail.com">trashleynash@g=
mail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; p=
adding-left: 1ex;">
In order to get funding from their sources, they agreed to have a photograp=
her and videographer capture images and video respectively for the event, s=
o that the people who supplied the funding could have them.=A0 <br><font co=
lor=3D"#888888"><br>
Ashley</font><div><div></div><div class=3D"h5"><br>
<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Ted Hilk <s=
pan dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:thilk@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">thil=
k@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; p=
adding-left: 1ex;">
The photographer line says "in contract with funding organization.&quo=
t;=A0 Details?<div><div></div><div><br><div style=3D"display: inline;"></di=
v><br>
<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Tim Jenks <span=
dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:trjenks@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">trj=
enks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" s=
tyle=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8e=
x; padding-left: 1ex;">
The few things that I've seen about this event publicize this event as =
an interaction between students or the MIT community and the artists.=A0 So=
if this is what we're debating on funding, why is a photographer and v=
ideographer necessary?=A0 I fail to see the benefits of spending $1500 on a=
photographer, when he doesn't relate to the experience the students or=
community would receive from attending the event.<br>
<br>Also I think we should consider the FPRC guidelines and some of the thi=
ngs we talked about with the MassCPR bill.=A0 (minutes: <a href=3D"http://w=
eb.mit.edu/ua/minutes/UAS41/2010-03-29.pdf" target=3D"_blank">http://web.mi=
t.edu/ua/minutes/UAS41/2010-03-29.pdf</a>)<br>
<font color=3D"#888888">
<br>--Tim</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Nicole D Teague <span dir=3D"ltr"><=
;<a href=3D"mailto:nteague@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">nteague@mit.edu</a>&g=
t;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In addition to th=
e points Keone has mentioned\\, the LEF/ARCADE turned down this event becau=
se of the huge amount of money being budgeted to publicity ($1000) and phot=
o and video documentation ($1500). These are unnecessary expenses whose tot=
al exceeds the amount they requested from LEF.<div>
<div></div><div><br>
<br>
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Keone Hon wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here's the application submitted to LEF/ARCADE, since you guys asked.<b=
r>
Also see the PDF, which is a bit more descriptive than the one<br>
attached in this thread before.<br>
<br>
The event was turned down by LEF due to timing issues (it is Fri May<br>
21, the last day of finals week) and questions about whether they<br>
could really draw 1000 attendees as claimed, especially during that<br>
time.<br>
<br>
Although some events do take place during/after finals week, but they<br>
are typically related to finals week (Medlinks), or are very small,<br>
tight-knit groups (BGSA). =A0The events that take place after finals<br>
week are held in grad dormitories, which essentially eliminates the<br>
draw concern.<br>
<br>
<br>
Board: =A0LEF<br>
Event name: =A0Sweat Lodge<br>
Sponsoring group: =A0SOCS<br>
<br>
Total attendance: =A01,000<br>
MIT student attendance: =A065%<br>
<br>
Funding request: =A02733<br>
Total budget: =A06700<br>
Other funding sources:<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2150 =A0from =A0 Council for the Arts<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1484 =A0from =A0 de Florez Humor Fund<br>
<br>
Date: =A05/21/10 Time: =A036 hours<br>
Location: =A0In the courtyard beteween the Media Lab and Medical Buildings<=
br>
<br>
Other information:<br>
* met with SAO<br>
* location IS reserved<br>
* WAS held previously<br>
<br>
Event description: =A0Sweat Lodge<br>
Graduate and undergraduate students from the ASA club Society of<br>
Creatives (SOCS) and MIT's programs in Architecture, Art, Culture, &=
;<br>
Technology, and Media Arts & Sciences are organizing a month long<br>
inflatable intervention on the MIT campus this spring. Happening over<br>
three themed days, "Construct," "Experience," and "=
;De-Construct,"<br>
Sweat Lodge will be a nexus of performances, happenings, structures,<br>
workshops, lectures, discussions and experiences focusing on social<br>
and sensory perception. Sweat Lodge will be a platform for MIT<br>
students pursuing independent creative work to showcase that work to<br>
and collaborate with the communities of MIT, Cambridge, and Boston.<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge will not actually be a sweat lodge in the native American<br>
or Nordic sense! The name is a metaphor for the types of sensory and<br>
social experiences we are interested in engineering, and a pun on the<br>
fact that inflatables tend to get hot and stinky inside when occupied.<br>
The traditional sweat lodge is a place for individuals to come<br>
together and share in a collective experience through which community<br>
is constructed. Our conceptual focus on social and sensory perception<br>
in relation to public performance, society, and the built environment<br>
will facilitate similar experiential opportunities for the<br>
participants. Sweat Lodge will create social, collaborative and<br>
community opportunities for the MIT campus to actively explore<br>
creative practices and activities facilitated by artists, designers,<br>
engineers, and scientists.<br>
<br>
Promotion<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge will be inflated during the last weekend of May (Friday -<br>
Sunday) in Richard Fleischner's "Courtyard" (the lawn and wal=
kways<br>
between the E25, E23, E15, and E14). This location was chosen to<br>
maximize our potential audience of passersby due to its high volume of<br>
pedestrian traffic from the Kendal T station to central campus.<br>
Engaging serendipitously with a broad cross section of campus is<br>
fundamental to our mission of flattening barriers between departments,<br>
disciplines, and people.<br>
<br>
In addition to creating the potential for serendipitous interaction,<br>
many of our collaborators have audiences they are already engaged with<br>
who will attend the events. Publicity to these groups is a two-fold<br>
strategy of beginning the collaborative dialog, then using<br>
word-of-mouth and social media to spread the word. To this end a call<br>
for proposals to SOCS, MIT's School of Architecture + Planning and the<=
br>
organizers' social networks in January has engaged creative thinkers<br=
>
from the community to submit ideas for projects. The process of<br>
calling for and collecting proposals will continue till April 1st,<br>
when we will make curatorial decisions about which proposals to follow<br>
through on. Following this, we will use face-to-face interaction,<br>
digital invitations, web site documentation, and FaceBook groups to<br>
promote the event to our respective audiences and the public. We are<br>
also engaged with faculty in the Art, Culture & Technology program who<=
br>
have promoted the project to undergraduate and graduate students in<br>
their classes.<br>
<br>
Promotion will continue during Sweat Lodge through the distribution of<br>
a self-published pamphlet. The pamphlet will be given away for free on<br>
site and will contain information about what the Sweat Lodge is, a<br>
schedule of its events, and descriptions and artist statements about<br>
the activities taking place.<br>
<br>
Happenings<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge will kick-off with "Construct", a series of events ab=
out<br>
physical and metaphysical constructions. We'll be running free and<br>
public events on inflatable techniques for large objects; discussing<br>
the politics of appropriated spaces and societies; producing digital<br>
maps with helium dirigibles; fabricating tensegrity structures for<br>
pedagogy; building tools for public wireless networks; and<br>
collaborating to produce a human scale knit object, to name a few.<br>
<br>
The following day, "Experience", Sweat Lodge will become a nexus =
of<br>
public performance, sound, video, installation, and media events,<br>
which will create a variety of experiential environments for audience<br>
participants. Proposals for this day are still being gathered, but we<br>
have received promising submissions from members of the Society of<br>
Creatives (SOCS); students in Antoni Muntadas' Public Art class;<br>
students in the program in Media Arts & Sciences; students in the<br>
program in Art, Culture, & Technology; and community members from<br>
Boston and Cambridge. More details of individual proposals can be<br>
provided by request.<br>
<br>
The final day, "De-Construct", will feature a participatory publi=
c<br>
deconstruction of the pavilions involving workshops dealing with<br>
positive alternatives to Ant Farm=92s (pioneers in inflatable<br>
architecture and comedic performance-art) advice to =93burn it=94. Public<b=
r>
presentations will be staged on site about sustainable material use in<br>
art production; re-purposing, re-use, and re-cycling of inflatable<br>
objects; multi-media documentation of the prior days' goings-on; and a<=
br>
round table panel discussion with the collaborators, curators and<br>
community to critique: "What just happened?"<br>
<br>
Approvals<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge consists of a set of single and multiple occupancy modular<br>
inflatable pavilions ranging from 3'x3'x9' to 9'x9'x9&#=
39; (under the size<br>
threshold for building permits) made from fire-retardant plastic. The<br>
pavilions will be inflated each morning of the event and deflated for<br>
storage each evening. A member of the project management team will be<br>
monitoring the installations full-time while they are inflated, and<br>
ballasts will be devised to buoy them in place. After the exhibit the<br>
pavilions will be stored for future use, donated for re-purposing, or<br>
recycled with a vendor. Approval from MIT's EHS office are still<br>
pending, but we have already initiated the approval process and are<br>
actively working with them to gain approval. Additional site visits<br>
are being conducted by MIT's Council for the Arts.<br>
<br>
Project Management Team<br>
<br>
The Society of Creatives (SOCS) is a newish (founded Feb 2009)<br>
student-run organization for people engaged in creative practices that<br>
exist between the boundaries of Art, Science, Design, and Engineering.<br>
We organize events like lectures, workshops, art happenings,<br>
critiques, exhibitions, and field trips, with the goal of building<br>
community across creative disciplines. Sweat Lodge is by far the<br>
largest event we have organized to-date, but it is not without<br>
precedent. Currently, we run a weekly peer critique group at the Muddy<br>
Charles Pub called Negative Feedback, for students who are working on<br>
independent creative projects to present their work and receive<br>
critical feedback from a multi-disciplinary audience. This semester we<br>
inaugurated our second regular event, MIT Creatives, a bi-weekly<br>
lecture series about creative thinking and practices happening at MIT.<br>
Finally, last spring, SOCS's founder and past president, Ryan O'Too=
le,<br>
produced a similar event in the same location for Antoni Muntadas's<br>
Public Art class called Public Art Bath. Sweat Lodge is a continuation<br>
of that work, but much more grandiose in scope and deeper in its<br>
collaborative effort. The principal organizers of Sweat Lodge are Ryan<br>
O'Toole (MAS '10) and Amanda Moore (ACT '11) supported by the w=
ork,<br>
ideas, participation, and good will of many other students and faculty<br>
involved staging the happenings: David Robert (MAS), Sam Kronick<br>
(BSAD), Sara Witt (ACT), Mary Hale (ALUM), Brandon Roy (MAS), Nadav<br>
Ahrony (MAS), Antoni Muntadas (ACT), Ute Meta Bauer (ACT), Gedeminas<br>
Urbonas (ACT), Noah Vawter (MAS), Noah Feehan (MAS), Jeff Warren(MAS),<br>
John Buck (LVAC&MassArt), Hannah Perner-Wilson (MAS), Sean Folmer<br>
(MAS), Kathryn Payne (MassArt), and others to be announced.<br>
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Miscellaneous:<br>
Acct# : =A02721289<br>
Available_funds : =A00<br>
Performer_Speaker? : =A0no<br>
Group_email : =A0<a href=3D"mailto:sweatlodge@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">sw=
eatlodge@mit.edu</a><br>
Contact : =A0Ryan O'Toole<br>
Collaborating_Other_Groups : =A0Students from the programs in Media Arts<br=
>
& Sciences, Art Culture & Technology, and Architecture.<br>
name : =A0Ryan Michael O'Toole<br>
email : =A0<a href=3D"mailto:rot@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">rot@mit.edu</a>=
<br>
Contact_email : =A0<a href=3D"mailto:rot@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">rot@mit=
.edu</a><br>
Past_date : =A05/15/09<br>
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--<br>
Keone Hon<br>
President, Association of Student Activities | MIT Class of 2011<br>
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Dept. of Mathematics=
<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:keone@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">keone@mit.edu</a> | (407=
) 536-6346<br>
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ashley Nash <<a href=3D"mailto:ashnash@=
mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">ashnash@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here's the budget. Whoops<br>
<br>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Ashley Nash <<a href=3D"mailto:ashnash@=
mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">ashnash@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
Sorry I didn't send this out earlier.=A0 I meant to, but then life<br>
happened.=A0 Anyway, the Sweat Lodge is a new event for MIT.=A0 It's a =
three-day<br>
event (each day over a different weekend) where students can showcase their=
<br>
work.=A0 They can install stuff or perform, and this is really awesome beca=
use<br>
lots of students like doing cool things, but they don't have the time t=
o do<br>
their work, and do art and do the bureaucratic stuff they need to do to<br>
perform, getting the appropriate licenses, dealing with MIT EHS (safety<br>
office) applying for funding, etc.=A0 This event will give students the cha=
nce<br>
to do cool things and someone else, the event organizers, are doing all of<=
br>
the paperwork and stuff that the students don't have time to do themsel=
ves.<br>
=A0 We haven't been spending all that much this term, which translates =
to<br>
people aren't doing as much, and so I think that if we could help a new=
<br>
initiative get off the ground, it would be 1. an awesome thing for students=
<br>
and 2. would encourage more people to come up with awesome things for<br>
students.<br>
<br>
I attached their budget below.=A0 One funding source is listed as ???=A0 Th=
ey<br>
told me who it was, and I forgot, so I put in ???<br>
<br>
If you have any questions or information you want, let me know so I can<br>
try to make sure it is available before/at Senate.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Ashley<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Theodore Hi=
lk<br>MIT '13 | <a href=3D"mailto:thilk@mit.edu">thilk@mit.edu</a> | 91=
3.375.6503<br>Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<br>
Sloan School of Management<br>
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