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Cloud Cities artist Tomás Saraceno discusses his experimental biospheres

Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno will present his latest work, On Space Time Foam, a project installed at the HangarBiccoca in Milan, Italy, part of the ongoing Cloud Cities series. An artist trained as an architect, Saraceno employs insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics and materials science to create inflatable and airborne biospheres, which are speculative models for alternate ways of living.

Moving Beyond Materiality
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
6:30 p.m. panel | MIT Room 10-250
Free and open to the public | Reserve a seat

MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno discusses experimental materials with School of Architecture + Planning faculty Nader Tehrani and Antón García-Abril.

Co-presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and the Department of Architecture.

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