The Lab at Panorama 2016-18

2016 — The First LAB

The first-ever Panorama festival (July 22–24, 2016), a modern-day World’s Fair of music, art, culture and technology, showcased future-forward creativity beyond the confines of the average music festival experience.

META.is conceptualized, curated and produced The Lab, an experience that brought together the best creative technologists in New York City to create an immersive hub for festival-goers. The Lab was Presented by The Verge and powered by HP.

2017 — The Synchronicity Supercollider

You’re walking the streets of New York, headphones cranking your favorite jam. You look up and see a poster for the exact band you’re rocking. On your left, the song lyric you are hearing is—like magic—written in graffiti... chills abound!

These moments reveal the magic of Synchronicity, a feeling that asks us if there is more to this world than what we can see. Meanwhile, a particle accelerator—or Supercollider—increases the energy beam of particles by generating electric fields. The particles then accelerate and magnetic fields steer and focus them. The scientific goal is to recreate the Big Bang: to study the origins of the universe and prove through rigorous data that we are truly all connected.

Is it possible to design an environment that blends intention, story, art, HP technology, and human energy to foster synchronicity to occur? Can we create a Synchronicity Supercollider? We kindly welcome you to the 2017 LAB at Panorama, Powered by HP.

2018 — Fractal Nature

For the 2018 iteration of the LAB at Panorama, Designed and Curated for the third year in a row by META: The Art of Being There, our footprint moved to a totally new and exciting environment with a much more natural, tree-laden, grassy feel to it.

Inspired by this more organic environment, and to juxtapose the darker look and feel from the first two years of the LAB, we now bring to you Fractal Nature. This year’s works focus on a more sustainably designed LAB, helping to further HP’s focus on technology designed with our Earth in mind.