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SUMMARY:Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media
DESCRIPTION:Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall\, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11)\, will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable\, the old-fashioned\, the re-fashioned. Burges will talk about the turn away from the digital in contemporary cinema\, particularly the case of Fantastic Mr. Fox\, in an attempt to think about the uneven development of media over time. Marshall will discuss how popular but privatized platforms like Facebook and YouTube\, pop culture fashion—and the negotiable refashionability of both—present crucial challenges to the study of media today. \nJoel Burges works at the intersection of literary studies\, critical studies\, and media studies. His first book\, which is in progress\, is entitled The Uses of Obsolescence; it considers the fate of historical thinking in the media of late modernity\, especially literature and cinema. His second book\, in its very early stages\, is called Fiction after TV; it considers how a major mode of imaginative processing—fiction—is altered by the introduction of TV to post-1945 mediascapes. \nWayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist\, blogger (wayneandwax.com)\, and DJ\, specializing in the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas\, and their circulation in the wider world. Currently a Mellon Fellow at MIT\, he’s writing a book on music\, social media\, and digital youth culture. He co-edited and contributed to Reggaeton (Duke 2009) and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo while writing for popular outlets like XLR8R\, The Wire\, and the Boston Phoenix.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/joel-burges-wayne-marshall-refashionable-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Code and Platform in Computational Media
DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort\nComputing plays an important role in some types of media\, such as video games\, digital art\, and electronic literature. It seems evident that an understanding of programming and computing systems may help us learn more about these productions and their role in culture. But few have focused on the levels of code and platform. Adding these neglected levels to digital media studies can help to advance the field\, offering insights that would not be found by focusing on the levels of experience and interface by themselves. The recent project of Critical Code Studies and two book series just started by The MIT Press\, Software Studies and Platform Studies\, represent a new willingness to consider digital media at these levels. With reference to mass-market and more esoteric systems and works\, ranging from Atari 2600 and arcade games to Talan Memmott’s Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]\, this talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works. \nNick Montfort is associate professor of digital media at MIT and has been part of dozens of academic\, editorial\, and literary collaborations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-montfort-code-and-platform-in-computation-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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