Sohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers’ “competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus.”
Video, podcast, and summary: An Evening with Comedienne Cameron Esposito
As part of MIT’s Communications Forum, a short comedy set with Cameron Esposito followed by Q&A about Rape Jokes, her standup comedy special about sexual assault from a survivor’s perspective.
Podcast: Jaroslav Švelch, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
The idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
Civic Arts Series, “Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History”
On April 17, Haidee Wasson will explore the long and vibrant place of portable film devices in the history of small media, repositioning the “movie theatre” as the singular or even central figuration of film presentation and viewing.
Podcast: “Gaming the Iron Curtain”
Jaroslav Švelch on the idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime.
Podcast, Stuart Cunningham and David Craig: “Social Media Entertainment”
Media scholars Stuart Cunningham and David Craig propose challenging, revisionist accounts of the political economy of digital media, the precarious status of creative labor and media management, and the possibilities of progressive cultural politics in commercializing environments.
Machine Visions
Machine Visions is a grad student-run event series focused on developing cross-department connections around topics related to computer vision at MIT.
