Lev Manovich
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media, which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MACelia Pearce will use Uru Diaspora, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which immigrated into other games.
Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask, how does technology abet appropriation? How might it assist the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up?
Chris Claremont: “Opening Doors, Building Worlds”
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAChris Claremont of X-Men fame will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use.
The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MATucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign(s) of the last ten years. What is "message discipline" in an era of atomized opinion leadership -- a necessity or a fool's errand?
Ralph Baer, Baer Consultants
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MARalph Baer on the continuum of invention, development, and marketing novel product ideas.
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAEthan Gilsdorf will discuss some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
How Not to Be Seen
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHannah Rose Shell screens and discusses her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the phenomenology of camouflage.
Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAElisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, hacktivst and writer. She co-edits the blog, PoliticalRemixVideo.com.
Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MARichard Rouse on the ways cinematic techniques can be used in gameplay to create even more stimulating experiences for gamers.
Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAWhat are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer's life?
Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJoel Burges and Wayne Marshall will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion.
Code and Platform in Computational Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAIan Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.
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