Emily Beattie is a Somerville based artist working in multiple disciplines: movement, text, space, film, and interactive media to create performance in many formats.

Rosa Weinberg is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based artist and licensed architect. Her projects are grounded in research and interviews and seek to use surprise and delight to challenge assumptions and social constructs. Her work asks people to take a pause from reality. Through her installations, wearables, and her students’ work, she has explored how design can be used to express complex ideas that are experienced by the viewer rather than passively absorbed.

She is currently collaborating with Heidi Latsky Dance, creating sculptural wearables for ON DISPLAY, “a deconstructed art exhibit/fashion show and commentary on the body as spectacle and society’s obsession with body image.” While at Pioneer Works, she will be designing kinetic wearables using digital and hand fabrication techniques for Heidi Latsky Dance and two of her performers.

This episode of Dexter’s LAB features Katrina and Jonah Goldsaito: a pair of uniquely talented multihyphenates and the creators of one of our most futuristic LAB projects.

What began as a performance in Kazakhstan has transformed into Reach You: an augmented reality transmission from the future built for the tenderness of the present. Reach You comes from a future when Earth is no longer habitable. Each transmission delivers an important message, asking users to contribute their own stories and share their griefs and gratitudes, integrating you into a larger, ever evolving Human Record.

Over the course of our conversation, we discuss the impacts of small griefs and gratitudes, what its like to collaborate artistically with your life partner, and wonder out loud about the human condition. Small things. This is Katrina and Jonah’s LAB.