$20 Suggested Donation

Join us at Stanley to celebrate Media Diet, along with co-creators Amar Bakshi and Heidi Boisvert.

Media Diet invites visitors to step inside the recreated media worlds of real individuals whose media consumption habits have been synthesized by custom technology. The installation carefully replicates the physical environments  — living rooms, bedrooms, home offices — in which people consume media so visitors can fully inhabit the filter bubbles of three Americans whom they will know only through their feeds. 

Amar Bakshi is an artist whose work explores connection across distance, difference, and media. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. He is the founder of Shared_Studios, a social impact company that connects strangers across distance and difference through curated conversations in life-size video environments called Portals. 

Heidi Boisvert is an interdisciplinary artist, experience designer, creative technologist, and academic researcher who interrogates the neurobiological and socio-cultural effects of media and technology. Simply put, she studies the role of the body, the senses, and emotion in human perception and social change. She founded and serves as the Creative Director of futurePerfect Lab, a think-do tank that harnesses the power of pop culture, emerging technology and neuroscience to ignite social change. She also architects expanded reality and transmedia storytelling experiences, and devises large-scale networked dance and theatre using biocreative technology.

Supported by a Program Grant from the Fund for Visual Arts of The Cape Cod Foundation