In the late 1960s, thousands flocked to Harvard Stadium to hear one of Janis Joplin’s last major concerts. Among them were disciples of science and music who could also be found near the light balcony of the Boston Tea Party, absorbed by the emerging language of lasers, optics, projections, and live performance.
From those early days, the AALUME team remained fascinated by computers, optics, images, lasers bounced off the moon, early holograms, and the stereoscopic vision associated with Edwin Land’s polarized glasses. Fifty years later, accompanied by younger generations, these ideas, inventions, and concepts appear everywhere: from Puccini’s Turandot to the Super Bowl, the Olympics, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Phish, Shakira, Indochine, and the HOLODECK EXPERIUM®.