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SUMMARY:The Cultural Feedback of Noise
DESCRIPTION:Noise\, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback\, distortion\, and electronic effects\, first emerged in the 1980s\, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan\, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity\, ear-shattering sound\, and over-the-top performances\, Noise captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience\, despite remaining deeply underground. How did the submergent circulations of Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization\, intercultural exchange and participatory media at the turn of the millennium? In this talk\, I trace the “cultural feedback” of noise through the productive distortions of its mediated networks: its recorded forms\, technologies of live performance\, and into the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. \nDavid Novak teaches in the Music Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His work deals with the globalization of popular music\, media technologies\, experimental culture\, and social practices of listening. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Popular Music\, as well as the book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke University Press).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-feedback-noise/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Size Is Only Half the Story:Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA
DESCRIPTION:Mary L. Gray\nRecent provocations (boyd and Crawford\, 2011) about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology\, as a particular kind of “big data”. \nMary L. Gray\, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University\, will walk through the different dimensions of social inquiry that fall under the rubric of “big data”. She argues for attending to different dimensions rather than scales of data\, more collaborative approaches to how we arrive at what we (think we) know\, and critical analysis of the cultural assumptions embedded in the data we collect. By moving from the “snapshot” of quantitative work to the
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/size-is-only-half-story-valuing-dimensionality-big-data/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Chris Horak\nWe now live in a digital age\, seemingly guaranteeing instant accessibility. Much of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case\, because digitization is still massively expensive\, there is no such thing as a digital preservation medium\, and even the migration of digital films is fraught with technical difficulties. \nChris Horak is Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-horak-film-preservation-in-the-age-of-digitality/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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