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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
CMS Town Hall Forum
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MALimited to CMS faculty, students, and invitees, this is CMS's semesterly forum to discuss candidly the successes, challenges, and direction of the program.
Exit Zero: Documentary Filmmaking, Historical Memory, and Personal Voice
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAFilmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on the making of Exit Zero, an in-progress documentary film about deindustrialization, community, class, and family in a former steel mill region in southeast Chicago.
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAProfessor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In particular, his […]
Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAUsing physical and virtual examples, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible.
NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAProfessor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAChristoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAClara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
(Face)book of the Dead
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIn the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?
The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MARichard Rogers proposes a research practice that grounds claims about cultural change and societal conditions in online dynamics.
Race and Representation after 9/11
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAAttendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.
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