Tara Knight, filmmaker, animator, and media designer for live performance, didn't really get a T-shirt, but she did get a fascinating backstage view of Hatsune Miku, the singing, dancing hologram who is collaboratively created by hundreds of thousands of people online. In her online talk, Knight will showcase three research projects: massive scale participatory creative projects like Hatsune Miku, her work with astrophysicists to poetically model in VR what it’s like to feel and hear the Earth rotate and a short animation that non-verbally layers thousands of images to reveal the ecological and economic histories of an American landscape.