Step right up! Step right up!
In preparation for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab (Oct 2025), prepare yourselves to be dazzled and bewildered by the most spectacular show this side of reality!
LABRACADABRA
The Untold Histories of the Future
October 15-18, 2024
We invite you to co-create in this week-long future-history festival where students, alumni, staff, and faculty will dive into four decades of impactful, playful, and quirky past to re-imagine our vision for the future.
FULL SCHEDULE INFORMATION
What is LABRACADABRA??!?
- a HACKATHON where current students and lab friends hack together to re-visit past Media Lab projects using new technologies and fresh perspectives.
- Tue 5:30 pm : Opening Ceremony / Hackathon Kickoff
- Wed 7:30 pm : Hack Night #2
- Thu 7:30 pm : Hack Night #3
- hands-on WORKSHOPS (a.k.a TIME CAPSULES) by distinguished alumni from various eras.
- an EXHIBITION showcasing historic Media Lab projects and untold stories that make up the lab. Got an old gizmo or a curious contraption to contribute? Email us!
- the first-of-its-kind LABARET (think Cabaret but it's the Media Lab... :) where the magical fruits of the hackathon and workshops will be demo-ed live on stage. Perform or perish!
- the legendary 99Fridays PARTY to cap off the week!
- Fri 6 pm : LABARET
- Fri 9 pm : 99Fridays
- RSVP NOW!!
Do you have an idea you're excited to co-create? Looking for fellow hackers/builders? Please join our Discord
RSVP to 99FRIDAYS!!
Labracadabra is conceptualized and organized by ML students with hope to bring the ML alumni community closer together, backed by the support and insights from the E14 Fund.
