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SUMMARY:Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People's Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv
DESCRIPTION:Sasha Costanza-Chock\nScholars and activists have hotly debated the relationship between social media and social movement activity during the current global cycle of protest. This talk investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture: the set of tools\, skills\, social practices\, and norms that movement participants deploy to create\, circulate\, curate\, and amplify movement media across all available platforms. \nMovement media cultures are shaped by their location within a broader media ecology\, and can be said to lean towards open or closed based on the diversity of spokespeople\, the role of media specialists\, formal and informal inclusion mechanisms\, messaging and framing norms\, and levels of transparency. The social movement media culture of the Occupy movement leans strongly towards open\, distributed\, and participatory processes; at the same time\, highly skilled individuals and dedicated small groups play key roles in creating\, curating\, and circulating movement media. Insight into the media culture of the Occupy movement is based on mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative insights come from semi-structured interviews with members of Media Teams and Press Working Groups\, participant observation and visual research in multiple Occupy sites\, and participation in Occupy Hackathons. Quantitative insights are drawn from a survey of over 5\,000 Occupy participants\, a crowdsourced database of the characteristics of approximately 1200 local Occupy sites\, and a dataset of more than 13 million tweets with Occupy related hashtags. \nSasha Costanza-Chock is Assistant Professor of Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University\, co-PI of the MIT Center for Civic Media\, and cofounder of the Occupy Research Network.
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LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window
DESCRIPTION:David Kelley primarily works with digital video installation and photography\, with recent projects involving performance and sculpture. His practice consistently interrogates the apparatus of photography and film to encounter narrative in the process of becoming. His latest films\, set in Newfoundland and the Brazilian Amazon\, draw on the genre of ethnography as a narrative device to rehearse the real and imagined social relations of these sites. In Newfoundland\, Kelley participated in a remote art residency founded as a socio-economic redevelopment project on Fogo island\, an outport community with a failing fishing industry. In Manaus in the Amazon\, he filmed rehearsals of an independent film about drug-fueled indigenous suicides in the colonial Teatro Amazonas. The theater was funded by the fortunes of rubber barons and also served as the location for Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Kelley will show selections of his recent projects and related narrative and ethnographic films\, as well as rehearse a lecture/performance about architectural morphology and global tourism. \nKelley is an artist and Assistant Professor of Photography at Wellesley College.  He received his MFA from University of California in Irvine and is a recent alumni of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. Kelley’s work has been shown at MassMoCA\, The Kitchen\, BAK in Utrecht\, and Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. His project with Patty Chang Flotsam Jetsam (2007) exhibited in New York at Museum of Modern Art’s 2008 New Directors New Films Festival and won the Golden Pyramid at the Cairo IMFAY Media Arts Festival.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/color-seawater-through-picture-window/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Urban Database Documentary
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Shapins\nThe urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place. The genre emerges in the early 20th century\, and can be read as symptomatic of panoramic perception\, sensory estrangement and networked participation\, cultural utopias which respond to modernity’s underlying paradoxes. As such\, the invention of the computer did not give rise to the urban database documentary\, it only enabled new forms of its realization. The hope is to shift the conversation from a fetishization of ever-­new technological possibilities to a discussion of the underlying cultural aims/assumptions of media art practice and the specific forms through which works address modernity’s cultural tensions. \nJesse Shapins is a media theorist\, documentary artist\, and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times\, Metropolis\, PRAXIS and Wired\, cited in books such as The Sentient City and Networked Locality\, and been exhibited at MoMA\, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts\, among other venues. He is Co-Founder/Chief Strategy Architect of Zeega\, Co-Founder/Associate Director of metaLAB (at) Harvard\, and on the faculty of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, where he has invented courses such as The Mixed-Reality City and Media Archaeology of Place.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mapping-urban-database-dictionary/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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