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SUMMARY:Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will examine the impact of globalization on the urban imaginary in relation to a recent art exhibition\, commissioned by the Dutch government in 2009\, in which a group of contemporary New York artists were invited to photograph Amsterdam to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of Manhattan. \nRegistering a long history of transnational exchange between the two cities\, the selected artists sought to produce work capable of defamiliarizing established images of Amsterdam. The claim of the exhibition was that seeing Amsterdam through the lens of New York photographers enabled new and surprising perspectives on four key aspects of the city: the street\, the night\, the water\, and the outskirts. Interrogating this claim\, the lecture will analyze individual artworks\, the marketing and staging strategies of the exhibition\, and — most importantly — the role that transnational exchange can play in both resisting and reinforcing dominant\, globalized images of contemporary city spaces. \nChristoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is also a Research Affiliate at the University of London Institute in Paris. His recent books include Globalization\, Violence\, and the Visual Culture of Cities (2010)\, Urban Space and Cityscapes (2006)\, and Fictions of Commodity Culture (2003).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/christoph-lindner-amsterdam-new-york-transnational-photographic-exchange/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
DESCRIPTION:Clara Fernández-Vara\nWhat do Shakespeare and videogames have in common? Clara Fernández-Vara\, a Comparative Media Studies alumna\, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames. Applying concepts from theatre in performance illuminates the relationship between the player and the game\, as well as between game and narrative. \nVideogames are not theatre\, but the comparison gives way to productive questions: What is the dramatic text of the game? How does this text shape the actions of the player? Who are the performers? Who is the audience? These questions will be addressed in the context of adventure games\, a story-driven genre where the player solves puzzles that are integrated in the fictional world of the game. \nClara Fernández-Vara is a post-doctoral researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab\, where she teaches courses on videogame theory and game writing\, as well as develop games with teams of students. Clara is a graduate from the Comparative Media Studies program\, and holds a PhD in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research concentrates on adventure games\, game playing as a performance activity\, and the integration of stories in simulated environments. She has released two experimental adventure games\, Rosemary (2009) and Symon (2010).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/clara-fernandez-vara-theatre-and-videogames-as-performance/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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