Mathew Laibowitz
Mat Laibowitz is an inventor, artist, and product designer.
He holds a PhD degree from MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences from the Responsive Environments Group under Prof.
Joseph A. Paradiso.
He founded in 1996 an urban experience named Midnight Madness after the 1980 film of the same name, Midnight Madness( film).
Midnight Madness was regarded as igniting the large scale urban game scene in NYC, including elements of the Come Out and Play festival.
In its original incarnation, Midnight Madness ran for its final time in 2007, at which time more than 2000 people have participated throughout its 11- year history.
Midnight Madness and Mat Laibowitz were the subjects of a chapter in David Rakoff's book, Do n't Get Too Comfortable.
As a product designer, Mat Laibowitz has brought over 30 products to market including toys, home automation devices, and lighting.
As an inventor and a researcher, his most known work includes Parasitic Mobility – a distributed sensor networks employing mobile sensing nodes that are carried to desired locations by attaching themselves to moving hosts, and Spinner( MIT Media Lab), a research platform designed to investigate the use of a distributed video camera network and wearable sensors to create cohesive narrative videos from our physical and social behavior.
He recently held the position of Principal Researcher at Nokia Research Center Hollywood, where he investigated new forms of entertainment using activated physical environments.
As a mixed- media artist he has shown work at many international venues including Exit Art, Fellisimo House of Design, Ars Electronica, Jack Lenor Larsen's Longhouse, and at the MIT Museum.
He formerly composed and performed music as part of the band Brazilian Pizza Mafia, who performed at the South By Southwest music festival in 1998, and as a solo artist under the name hazmat and performed at NYC's The Limelight in 2000.
In September 2011, Mat Laibowitz left Nokia Research to become an independent innovator of art, entertainment, and physically interactive new media.
In January 2012, Mat Laibowitz founded Futuruption Research and Development( website), a small company specializing in the design, development, and deployment of first- of- a-kind products, systems, activated environments, and events to create new forms of human experience for entertainment, education, awareness, health, and productivity.
Futuruption, with the support of Elisha Wiesel/ Goldman Gives and in collaboration with Linked By Air and Insider NYC, brought back Midnight Madness as a charity fund raising event.
The first three of these events in 2012, 2013, and 2015 raised over$ 7,000,000 for charity, and the event has continued to raise money with a successful franchised event in 2017 and an upcoming version in London in 2018.
In 2014, Mat Laibowitz and the Futuruption team, created the global puzzle hunt that started in the New York Times Bestselling novel, Endgame: The Calling, working closely with the book's authors James Frey and Nils Sheldon- Johnson, the content of the novel unlocked 3 D virtual rooms and a series of challenges leading to the key that awarded$ 500000 in gold.
Competitors in over 100 countries attempted to win the gold, working on the puzzles until the prize was claimed 11 months after it started.
In addition to running Futuruption, as of August 2017, Dr. Laibowitz is a founding partner of Megafauna LLC( website), a cutting- edge digital creative studio that leverages his background building real- world technology- mediated environments to create fully immersive digital experiences using the evolving mixed- reality platforms.
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Midnight Madness (1928 film)
Midnight Madness is a 1928 silent film drama directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Jacqueline Logan.
It was produced by Cecil B. DeMille's DeMille Pictures Corporation and released through Pathé Exchange.
Prints are preserved at the Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress and New Zealand Film Archive.
A video of the preserved film is available for viewing at the website of the National Film Preservation Foundation.
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Daniel Nathan Rubin
Daniel Nathan Rubin was a playwright.
Several of his plays were adapted into films.
He wrote the screenplays.
His play" The Lion Trap" was adapted into the 1928 film" Midnight Madness".
He cowrote the screenplay for the 1931 film" Dishonored" and adapted on O. Henry's short story" The Double- Dyed Deceiver" into the screenplay for" The Texan( film)"( 1930).
His play" Riddle Me This" was adapted to film as" Guilty as Hell" in 1932.
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F. Harmon Weight
Frederick Harmon Weight (1887–1978) was an American film director most prolific in the late silent film era of the 1920s.
He directed many well-known performers such as George Arliss, Betty Compson, Myrna Loy and Rin-Tin-Tin.

Question: Which country the director of film Midnight Madness (1928 Film) is from?
Answer: American