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SUMMARY:Christopher Weaver\, “Amplius Ludo\, Beyond the Horizon”
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Weaver\nWhile the appeal of games may be universal and satisfy our innate desire to play\, the powerful dynamics that govern our behavior within games is even more interesting than the play itself. Can we broaden our understanding of play mechanisms by applying the subliminal mechanics of play beyond games? Join Christopher Weaver\, Founder of Bethesda Softworks\, who teaches engineering and computational media respectively at MIT and Wesleyan\, as he explores these important issues in a lecture entitled “Amplius Ludo\, Beyond the Horizon”. Prof. Weaver will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation\, childhood education\, and medicine. \nChristopher Weaver is Research Scientist and Lecturer\, MIT Comparative Media Studies\, Visiting Scientist and Lecturer\, MIT Microphotonics Center and Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University. \nWeaver received his SM from MIT and was the initial Daltry Scholar at Wesleyan University\, where he earned dual Masters Degrees in Japanese and Computer Science and a CAS Doctoral Degree in Japanese and Physics. The former Director of Technology Forecasting for ABC and Chief Engineer to the Subcommittee on Communications for the US Congress\, Weaver founded Bethesda Softworks\, and developed a physics-based\, realtime sports engine used to create the original John Madden Football for Electronic Arts. Bethesda is well known for The Elder Scrolls role-playing series of which Skyrim was the latest major installment. An adviser to both government and industry\, Weaver holds patents in interactive media\, security\, and telecommunications engineering.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/christopher-weaver-amplius-ludo-beyond-the-horizon/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Ian Condry\, “Sound\, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music\, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Ian Condry\, cultural anthropologist in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nThe talk will explore contemporary Japanese music\, with a comparison of diverse examples\, such as female Japanese rappers\, underground techno festivals\, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku\, and the pop idol group AKB48. How can music help us understand the curvature of social space-time?  What does this mean for our understanding of society\, culture\, and media? \nIan Condry is a cultural anthropologist in the department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT\, where he has taught since 2002. He is the author of two books\, Hip-Hop Japan and The Soul of Anime\, both of which have been translated into Japanese.  He organizes the MIT/Harvard Cool Japan research project and a new initiative called Dissolve Music\,which brings together musicians\, sound artists\, technologists and educators to use audio experiences to dissolve the structures of inequality.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ian-condry-japanese-music-underground-techno-pop-idols/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Nick Montfort\, “Poet/Programmers\, Artist/Programmers\, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort\, Professor of Digital Media at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nComputer programming is a general-purpose way of using computation. It can be instrumental (oriented toward a predefined end\, as with the development of well-specified apps and Web services) or exploratory (used for artistic work and intellectual inquiry). Professor Nick Monfort’s emphasis in this talk\, as in his own work\, is on exploratory programming\, that type of programming which can be used as part of a creative or scholarly methodology. He will say a bit about his own work but will use much of the discussion to survey how many other poet/programmers\, artist/programmers\, and scholar/programmers are creating radical new work and uncovering new insights. \nNick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations. Recent books include The Future and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (MIT Press) and several books of computational poetry: Hard West Turn\, The Truelist\, #!\, the collaboration 2×6\, and Autopia. He has worked to contribute to platform studies\, critical code studies\, and electronic literature.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-montfort-poet-programmers-artist-programmers-and-scholar-programmers-what-and-who-are-they/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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