Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAErik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Livestream starting at 5pm.
Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMarisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc), a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews.
2018 CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAOn 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.
Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMyron 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.
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe University of Texas' Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
Civic Arts Series, “Bringing the War Home”: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances in the Era of Modern Warfare
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies.
“The Good Stuff”: The Intersections of Work, Leisure, and Relational Bonding on Tumblr and Patreon
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MANick-Brie Guarriello on the political economies and labor demands of micro-celebrity and Influencer culture across social media platforms regarding the Pokémon GO community.
Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAThroughout her career as an interactive producer, funder and public programmer, Opeyemi Opeyemi has created spaces and pipelines for interdisciplinary artists, communities, and creative teams to experiment with and create meaningful innovative content.
Stuart Cunningham and David Craig: “Social Media Entertainment”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAMedia scholars Stuart Cunningham and David Craig propose challenging, revisionist accounts of the political economy of digital media, the precarious status of creative labor and media management, and the possibilities of progressive cultural politics in commercializing environments.
Civic Arts Series, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAThe idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MASohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus."
Civic Arts Series: “Thumbs Type and Swipe” featuring DIS’s Lauren Boyle
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MADIS enlists leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, philosophy, and technology, with the aim to inspire, inform and mobilize a generation around the urgent issues facing us today and tomorrow.
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