The Science of Subversion

october 23, 2003  11:20 am
The Science of Subversion
MIT's Media Lab, which hosts the Computing Culture Group in their postmodern playroom, is a bizarre department that blends technology, art and agitprop in idiosyncratic and sometimes nonsensical ways. Students here don't string together theories about the origins of the universe; instead they contrive high-tech ways to jolt governments, scientists and ordinary people out of their complacency toward machines. Far out is only one way to describe the research that CCG conducts; another is subversive.