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SUMMARY:2018 CMS Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:On the heels of the day’s graduate program information session\, join us for our annual colloquium featuring alumni of CMS\, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today. \nNick Seaver\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and a 2010 graduate of Comparative Media Studies\, is an anthropologist of technology\, whose research focuses on the circulation\, reproduction\, and interpretation of sound. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Irvine. His dissertation research examined the development of algorithmic music recommendation\, and at CMS\, he wrote a thesis on the history of the player piano.  \nColleen Kaman is a user experience strategist at IBM Interactive Experience\, skilled in storytelling\, user research\, learning design\, and persuasive technologies. Her expertise is in developing products\, services\, and campaigns that help users make better decisions and accomplish tasks more effectively and efficiently. \nSean Flynn is the Program Director for the Points North Institute\, a Maine-based organization supporting nonfiction storytellers through artist development initiatives and\, most prominently\, the Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum. He received his master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies in 2015 and worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. Sean began his filmmaking career as a producer and cinematographer working on two feature-length documentaries\, both of which had their premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on national television.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2018-cms-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
DESCRIPTION:“Protecting the Water in Solidarity and Unity”\nMyron Dewey – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nMyron Dewey is an indigenous journalist\, educator\, documentary filmmaker and the developer of Digital Smoke Signals\, a social networking and filmmaking initiative\, emerging out of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project of 2016-17. Using a full range of contemporary media\, including drone technologies\, Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring\, documentary filmmaking\, and social networking in the cause of environment\, social justice and indigenous people’s rights; he co-directed the 2017 award-winning documentary\, Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock. \nIntroduction by Lisa Parks\, Professor\, Comparative Media Studies; Director\, Global Media Technologies & Cultures Lab and recently awarded MacArthur Fellow. \nRespondents\nNicholas A. Brown\, Artist\, Cultural Geographer\, Assoc. Teaching Prof\, Northeastern University \nMarisa Morán Jahn\, Visiting Artist\, MIT Art\, Culture\, Technology  \nRecent MacArthur Fellow (2018) Lisa Parks is a media scholar whose research focuses on satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media\, militarization and surveillance. Parks has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin\, McGill University\, University of Southern California\, and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is committed to exploring how greater understanding of media systems can inform and assist citizens\, scholars and policymakers in the US and abroad to advance campaigns for technological literacy\, creative expression\, social justice\, and human rights.  \nNicholas A. Brown is a scholar and artist based in Boston\, MA and La Farge\, WI. He teaches in the School of Architecture and Department of History at Northeastern University. His work examines the production of cultural landscapes and the politics of connectivity in settler colonial contexts. Recent and ongoing projects include: Kickapoo Conversations\, A People’s Guide to Firsting and Lasting in Boston\, Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape\, Memory\, and Power in the American Midwest\, The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project\, and Ni-aazhawa’am-minis Spur.  \nAn artist\, filmmaker\, and creative technologist of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent\, Marisa Morán Jahn’s artworks redistribute power\, “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice” (ArtForum). Her work has been presented in a range of venues including Obama’s White House\, Museum of Modern Art\, ITVS/PBS\, and worker centers. An awardee of Creative Capital\, Sundance\, and Tribeca Institute\, Jahn is the founder of Studio REV\, an art and social justice non-profit organization\, an Assistant Professor at The New School\, and a Visiting Artist at MIT Art\, Culture\, Technology. \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-myron-dewey/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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SUMMARY:The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
DESCRIPTION:Roderick Hart\, University of Texas at Austin and the founding director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life\nWhen everyday citizens interact about politics today\, they often do so (1) anonymously and (2) in digital space\, which results in a kind of aggressive chaos. But what happens when people identify themselves to one another in place-based communities as they do\, for example\, when writing letters to the editor of their local newspaper? How does that change public discussion? \nThis talk by Roderick Hart operationalizes the concept of “civic hope” and reports the results of a long-term study of 10\,000 letters to the editor written between 1948 and the present in twelve small American cities. Hart’s argument is that the vitality of a democracy lies not in its strengths but in its weaknesses and in the willingness of its people to address those weaknesses without surcease. If democracies were not shot-through with unstable premises and unsteady compacts\, its citizens would remain quiet\, removed from one another. Disagreements – endless\, raucous disagreements – draw them in\, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope. \nRoderick Hart is the Allan Shivers Centennial Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin and the founding director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life. He is the author of twelve books\, the most recent of which is Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why. He is also the author of DICTION 7.0\, a computer program designed to analyze language patterns. Dr. Hart has been inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas and has also been designated Professor of the Year for the State of Texas from the Carnegie/C.A.S.E. Foundation.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/language-civic-life-roderick-hart/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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