New Installation: S-Portals: Superpositions in Stream Space, by Chris Moffett and Lucius Von Joo

"As we are increasingly asked to live in the overlap between physical and digital spaces, what is it that we are learning to do and be? S-Portals: Superpositions in Stream Space invites us to play with the potentiality of spontaneous encounters in a fleeting hybrid-public space.

This interactive installation projects and superimposes the silhouettes of visitors in different locations of the library into a shared virtual space: Here and there, there and here."

-- Artists' Statement

Chris Moffett, Ph.D., is an artist and scholar working across the fields of philosophy, education, art and technology. His current research centers on embodied practice in education, play and diagramming. Current projects include early-childhood play in Anji, China; walking as an aesthetic practice, with Art Education students in Guangzhou, China; a somatic learning lab; and an experimental gestural reading group between North America and Northern Europe. He is a research scholar at the Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Lucius Von Joo is an Instructor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a doctoral student of Communication and Education and holds an EdM in Comparative and International Education. Lucius has teaching experience in deaf education, elementary and tertiary education, and EFL/ESL in California, Japan, and New York. His research interests include cultural anthropology, social neuroscience, CALL, film, and documentary content-based learning, media studies, video-cued multivocal ethnography, and most importantly all things Adventure Playground and Repair Cafe.

This interactive installation is co-sponsored by the Digital Futures Institute and will be on exhibit through February. It accompanies the co-curated Everett Cafe book display, Embodied Learning and Hybrid Space, which to speaks to relationships among bodies, learning, and technology.

Where: Collaboration Space, Second Floor

Poster Image: Chris Moffett in Stream Space, Courtesy of the Author