Workshops, symposia, and performances took place Friday, April 12th and Saturday, April 13, 2019 from 9:00am-7:00pm

See the full workshop schedule at https://bim.princeton.edu/workshops/ and some press about BIM here

Opening event and roundtable Thursday evening 6:30pm in Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture

Marshall Brown, Amina Blacksher, beth coleman, Nijah Cunningham,  V. Mitch McEwen, Stefana Parascho with Dean Monica Ponce de Leon

Preliminary BIM Incubator Workshops of Architechnopoetics throughout March and early April.  Architechnopoetic workshops and BIRDS performance are lovingly funded by the Council on Science and Technology.

BIM Incubator consisted of 2+ days of experimental architecture, art, and technology workshops and poetic symposia that culminate in live performances staged at the Architectural Laboratory (Embodied Computation Lab and Labatore).   The Incubator served as an intellectual platform for new thinking and making at the nexus of architecture, technology, the arts, and society that engaged academics, architects, artists, and robots at Princeton and beyond.  In addition to poetry and musical artists, the Incubator premiered new work by a Burkina Faso-based dance company directed by Princeton visiting lecturer Olivier Tarpaga and supported by the New England Foundation of the Arts (NEFA).

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Ruha Benjamin (Princeton)

Amina Blacksher (Columbia GSAPP)

Adrienne Brown (University of Chicago)

Marshall Brown (Princeton)

beth coleman (University of Waterloo)

Nijah Cunningham (Princeton)

Mario Gooden (Columbia GSAPP)

Jerome Haferd (Columbia GSAPP)

Douglas Kearney (Poetry Foundation, University of Minnesota)

Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio)

V. Mitch McEwen (Princeton)

Mario Moore (Hodder Fellow, Princeton)

Nontsikelelo Mutiti (Virginia Commonwealth University Arts)

Jenn Nkiru (Artist + Director)

Stefana Parascho (Princeton)

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Author)

Olivier Tarpaga (Princeton)

Lauren Vasey (ICD Stuttgart)

Ruha Benjamin and Mario Gooden will open two parts of the two-day symposium.  BIM is indebted to Benjamin’s work between science and technology and African-American Studies.

BiM Incubator Locations

Friday: Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University

9:00AM Breakfast

10:00AM Ruha Benjamin

Symposia through 6PM

Saturday: Architecture Laboratory + Embodied Computation Lab

9:00AM Breakfast

10:00AM Mario Gooden

Symposia through 6PM

6:00PM Performance of “WHEN BIRDS REFUSED TO FLY”

Sunset Performance by Kyp Malone

Architecture Laboratory and ECL are located between Jadwin Gym and the new Frick Chemistry Laboratory