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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Bacchieri – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nDaniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist\, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator\, whose visually inspiring StreetMusicMap platform has been widely praised for its curation of street performers from across the globe. Combining a documentarian vision with a trans-cultural appreciation of the public art of vernacular musicians\, the StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance. The StreetMusicMap Instagram channel has more than 41\,000 followers and 1\,300 artists documented on videos in 97 countries\, all filmed by more than 700 collaborators. \n\nThe Civic Arts Series\, which is part of the CMS graduate program Colloquium\, features talks by four artists and activists who are making innovative uses of media to reshape the possibilities of art as a source of civic imagination\, experience and advocacy. Using a variety of contemporary media technologies–film\, web platforms\, game engines\, drones–the series presenters have opened up new pathways to artistic expression that broaden public awareness around compelling civic issues and aspirations of our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-daniel-bacchieri/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
DESCRIPTION:Marisa Morán Jahn – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nMarisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist\, writer\, educator and activist\, whose colorful\, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues. Working collaboratively\, her projects include a classic American road trip\, CareForce One\, in a 50-year-old station wagon\, advocating issues concerning care workers that became a PBS film series; and Bibliobandido\, a story-telling initiative for Honduran children featuring a masked bandit who devours stories. Jahn\, winner of numerous awards\, is co-founder of Studio REV-\, a non-profit organization of artists\, technologists\, media makers\, low-wage workers\, immigrants and teens who producing creative media and public art about the issues they face. \nShe will be sharing Snatch-ural History of Copper (working title)\, an art project\, book\, and feature-length film initiated by artist Marisa Morán Jahn that investigates copper\, an element found in electrical wires\, computers\, lightning rods\, and the IUD (intrauterine device) implanted in Jahn’s own ‘snatch’ (womb). Jahn interviews a range of experts in search of otherworldly answers that trammel the boundaries of myth\, literary studies\, science\, alchemy and political controversy. Interviewing scientists in Saint Petersburg Florida who use rockets outfitted with a copper nose to trigger (and capture) lightning\, Jahn asks\, “Do you think that when the lightning goes off I’ll feel it in my cooch?” She visits a shrine on the island of Cyprus\, home of the earliest copper mines dating to 8700 BCE as well as the pre-Christian god\, Venus of Aphrodite who share the same symbol (♀) most familiar to us today as the symbol for women\, females\, and a movement for women’s liberation. Throughout these real-world investigations\, Jahn seeks access to the top of a building and solder her copper IUD on top of a copper lightning rod\, raising its height by an imperceptible inch. “I can’t wait for the moment when a bolt of lightning hits this thing — just imagine my little IUD radiating. It might even be sizzled into a thousand little parts distributed and distended into the atmosphere.” Poetically and playfully weaving the issues into a new cosmology\, the film touches upon timely issues such as planetary sustainability\, labor\, and reproductive self-determination during a moment when both sides of the spectrum mount all-offensive campaigns. \nAlso featuring… \nSasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar\, activist\, and media-maker\, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University\, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media\, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements\, transformative media organizing\, and design justice. Sasha’s first book\, Out of the Shadows\, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press in 2014. They are a board member of Allied Media Projects (AMP); AMP convenes the annual Allied Media Conference and cultivates media strategies for a more just\, creative and collaborative world (alliedmedia.org). \nJane M. Saks is a creative collaborator\, arts producer\, writer\, and educator who has worked to challenge and champion issues of gender\, sexuality\, human rights\, race and power within the worlds of arts and culture\, politics and civil rights\, academia and philanthropy. She is Founding President and Artistic Director of Project& (projectand.org)\, an organization that creates new models of cultural participation and experience with social impact. Previously\, she was the founding Executive Director at the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media where she created the award-winning Fellowship program\, developing and launching works that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes\, MacArthur Genius Awards\, Obie Awards and Guggenheims. She is an invited lecturer at civic\, cultural and educational institutions internationally\, a visiting critic at Yale University\, Regional Judge for the White House Fellows\, and will be a visiting Professor at Harvard University. A published poet\, Saks has been the Creator\, Author\, Producer\, Co-Producer\, Creative Advisor and Series Producer on many original creative works in various media and art forms. \nSteve Seidel holds the Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Chair in Arts in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is Faculty Director of the Arts in Education program and a former director of Project Zero (2000-2008). His current research includes Talking with Artists who Teach\, a study of working artists’ ideas and insights into the nature of artistic development and learning. Before becoming a researcher\, Seidel taught high-school theater and language arts in the Boston area for 17 years. He has also worked as a professional actor and stage director. \n\nThe Civic Arts Series\, which is part of the CMS graduate program Colloquium\, features talks by four artists and activists who are making innovative uses of media to reshape the possibilities of art as a source of civic imagination\, experience and advocacy. Using a variety of contemporary media technologies–film\, web platforms\, game engines\, drones–the series presenters have opened up new pathways to artistic expression that broaden public awareness around compelling civic issues and aspirations of our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-marisa-moran-jahn/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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SUMMARY:#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Our society is in the midst of an extremely urgent conversation about the benefits and harms of digital technology\, across all spheres of life. Unfortunately\, this conversation too often fails to include the voices of technology practitioners whose work is already focused on social justice\, the common good\, and/or the public interest. This talk by Sasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc)\, a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews. \n* The report was produced by the Tech for Social Justice Project (t4sj.co)\, co-led by Research Action Design (RAD) and the Open Technology Institute at New America (OTI)\, together with research partners Upturn\, Media Mobilizing Project\, Coworker.org\, Hack the Hood\, May First/People Link\, Palante Technology Cooperative\, Vulpine Blue\, and The Engine Room. NetGain\, the Ford Foundation\, Mozilla\, Code For America\, and OTI funded and advised the project. \nSasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar\, activist\, and media-maker\, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. Their work focuses on social movements\, transformative media organizing\, and design justice. Sasha’s first book\, Out of the Shadows\, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press in 2014. More info: schock.cc.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sasha-costanza-chock-morethancode-technology-social-justice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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