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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
Marks of Materiality in Digital Bodies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHye Jean Chung’s talk will explore how digital effects are not only used to mediate the real but to replace or enhance human capabilities via cyborgian hybrids.
Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant will draw upon examples from revision studies, adaptation, and translation in order to highlight the elements of creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference that are at stake in dealing with the ethics and editing of revision.
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