Past Member

Eyal Shahar

Former Alumnus, Opera of the Future
  • Opera of the Future

MS 2012
Exhibit Developer

After graduation, Eyal moved to Paris for 9 months, where he consulted with Le Laboratoire (currently in Cambridge), working on digitally transmitted scent devices. Then he moved to San Francisco. In his first year, Eyal worked with Musikara, a start up by Media Lab graduate Mihir Sarkar, where they were building platforms for online music collaboration. Since March 2014, he has been working at the Exploratorium, a museum for science, art, and human perception, where I develop new media exhibits.

How did your experience at the Lab influence your next step?

Most of the skills that I have been using since graduation are ones that I picked up during my time at the Lab. I learned various programming languages, programming for the web, digital fabrication, CAD and circuit design. Most importantly, I learned how to come up with ideas, learn the skills required, and make them happen.

Make your time count. Some projects in the lab get a lot of public exposure, but that's not what it's all about. Try to make work that you feel is new and that you can learn from.