Adam Haar Horowitz | Role/Play: Collaborative Creativity and Creative Collaborations | 12 March 2018

Adam Haar Horowitz, a charismatic researcher at the cutting-edge MIT Media Lab, spoke about his work relating to hypnagogia, the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep.
The topic was immediately captivating – and easy to relate to – given that this is a mental state that applies to all of us. Haar Horowitz believes that technology has the ability to reveal parts of ourselves that otherwise remain invisible, and studies how to control and capture dreams during the moment of hypnagogia, asserting that such access leads not only to revelation but, ultimately, wellbeing.
Haar Horowitz studied mindfulness meditation and mind-wandering during his earlier work at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and also spent time as an artist-scientist at the Marina Abramović Institute.
Role/Play: Collaborative Creativity and Creative Collaborations brings together 54 graduate students from North America representing a wide range of disciplines to present their work to each other.
Organized by Liese Zahabi and Molly Morin.
Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY