BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20140123T153900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140123T155455Z UID:7906-1392915600-1392922800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Sterne\, "Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune\, the Earth\, and the Politics of Frequency" DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Sterne\, McGill University\nAuto-tune is a ubiquitous vocal effect in popular music and the best-selling software plug-in in the short history of commercial digital audio software. When used with subtlety\, auto-tune fixes slight errors or variances in pitch (usually of singers); when used more drastically\, it produces a very recognizable vocal effect\, “locking” a voice to a scale\, or drastically altering it. \nAuto-tune was developed out of reflection seismology technology\, which uses sound for locating natural resources underground and beneath the ocean floor. In this paper\, Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing\, drawing on patent documents\, interviews\, operational protocols\, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies. Auto-tune effects a resource management of the voice. The obvious artifice in its most extreme forms points us back to a centuries-long project to technologize human voices through standards and tuning. While journalists and music fans may argue over auto-tune’s relationship to the authenticity of the voice\, Sterne shows that it is embedded in a much broader politics of frequency. \nJonathan Sterne is a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University\, and for January-May 2014 a visiting researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012)\, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke\, 2003); and numerous articles on media\, technologies and the politics of culture. He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge\, 2012). His new projects consider instruments and instrumentalities; histories of signal processing; and the intersections of disability\, technology and perception. Visit his website at sterneworks.org. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jonathan-sterne-auto-tune/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jonathan-Sterne.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20140117T153300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T132216Z UID:7845-1392310800-1392318000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Miguel Sicart: "Play in the Age of Computing Machinery" DESCRIPTION:Miguel Sicart\nWe live in the era of computation and play. Everywhere we look\, there is a computer\, translating the world around us into patterns for production of labor or consumption of entertainment. And now more than ever\, we play everywhere: our work should be playful\, as it should be our dieting\, our love life\, and even our leisure. We play as much as we can\, in this world of computers. \nIn this talk Sicart will look at the culture\, aesthetics\, and technological implications of play in the age of computers. He will propose a theory of play that includes the materiality of computation in its definition of the activity\, and will suggest that our forms of playing with machines are both forms of surrendering to the pleasures of computation\, and forms of creative resistance to the reduction of our worlds to computable events. \nMiguel Sicart is a games scholar based at the IT University of Copenhagen. For the last decade his research has focused on ethics and computer games\, from a philosophical and design theory perspective. He has two books published: The Ethics of Computer Games; and Beyond Choices: The Design of Ethical Gameplay (MIT Press 2009\, 2013). His current work focuses on playful design\, and will be the subject of a new book called Play Matters (MIT Press\, 2014). Miguel teaches game and play design\, and his research is now focused on toys\, materiality\, and play. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/miguel-sicart-play-age-computing-machinery/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Miguel-Sicart.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130905T200318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131121T154928Z UID:6007-1385053200-1385060400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\nMary Flanagan pushes the boundaries of medium and genre across writing\, visual arts\, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach. Her groundbreaking explorations across the arts and sciences represent a novel use of methods and tools that bind research with introspective cultural production. As an artist\, her collection of over 20 major works range from game-inspired systems to computer viruses\, embodied interfaces to interactive texts; these works are exhibited internationally. As a scholar interested in how human values are in play across technologies and systems\, Flanagan has written more than 20 critical essays and chapters on games\, empathy\, gender and digital representation\, art and technology\, and responsible design. Her three books in English include Critical Play (2009) with MIT Press. Flanagan founded the Tiltfactor game research laboratory in 2003\, where researchers study and make social games\, urban games\, and software in a rigorous theory/practice environment. Flanagan’s work has been supported by grants and commissions including The British Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the ACLS\, and the National Science Foundation. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mary-flanagan/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mary-Flanagan.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130820T120621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160516T174501Z UID:5648-1384448400-1384455600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information DESCRIPTION:Hilary Sargent\, founder of ChartGirl.com\nHilary Sargent is the founder of ChartGirl.com\, where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories. Her site was recently called one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013 by TIME Magazine and her charts have been featured by Reuters\, AtlanticWire\, BoingBoing\, Business Insider\, and others. Sargent has worked as an investigator for law firms\, corporations\, non-profit organizations and political campaigns. \nView the MIT Campus Map for Building 4’s exact location. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chartgirl-on-visualizing-information/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_8459.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130903T172931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T140523Z UID:5991-1383843600-1383850800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Sonia Livingstone: "The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age" DESCRIPTION:Sonia Livingstone\, Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science\nSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is seconded to Microsoft Social Research for fall 2013 as well as being a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her talk will be based on her current book project\, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”\, based on her ethnographic research with the MacArthur Foundation-funded Connected Learning Research Network. With a focus on young teenagers\, Sonia will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sonia-livingstone-class-living-learning-in-the-digital-age/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sonia-Livingstone.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130822T133322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131023T153012Z UID:5687-1383238800-1383246000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Todd Harper: "Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games" DESCRIPTION:Todd Harper\, Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Game Lab\nThe culture of fighting games — digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat—is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures. This talk examines the influences and norms of that community\, including its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade\, common gameplay practices\, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide with gamer identity in the ‘FGC’. \nTodd Harper is a researcher at the MIT Game Lab with a background in mass communication and cultural studies. His current research focuses on both competitive communities and their cultural norms\, as well as queer and gender representation and issues in gaming culture. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/todd-harper-culture-of-fighting-games/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Fighting-Games.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130725T200939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T144905Z UID:4714-1382634000-1382641200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Coco Fusco: "A Performance Approach to Primate Politics" DESCRIPTION:Coco Fusco\nNew York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films\, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960’s and ’70’s. \nShe will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in early sci-fi cinema\, the ways that films such as Planet of the Apes employed speculative fiction to generate social critique. \nModerated by Professor of Writing Junot Díaz and Associate Professor Ian Condry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-planet-of-the-apes-primate-politics/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/coco-fusco.gif ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130829T124223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T134519Z UID:5834-1382029200-1382036400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Zeynep Tufekci: "The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests" DESCRIPTION:Zeynep Tufekci\nSocial media-fueled protests in many countries have surprised observers with their seemingly spontaneous\, combustible power. Yet\, many have fizzled out without having a strong impact on policy at the electoral and legislative levels. In this talk\, Tufekci will discuss some features of such protests that may be leading to this boom and bust cycle drawing upon primary research in Gezi protests in Turkey as well as “Arab Spring”\, Occupy and M15 movements. \nZeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. \nModerated by Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Head of MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Ian Condry and Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/zeynep-tufekci-boom-bust-cycle-social-media-fueled-protests/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Zeynep-Tufekci.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130830T122641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130924T203246Z UID:5848-1380214800-1380222000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity" DESCRIPTION:Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection\nNew media technologies have sharply increased the number of people who are able to create and disseminate content. But they may not be leading to a more diverse media environment\, as tools that allow us to tailor what content we see and what we ignore are becoming more powerful and more personal. The framework of cosmopolitanism suggests a way through this challenge – by examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from\, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges. \nEthan Zuckerman is the Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. \nModerated by Associate Professor Ian Condry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ethan-zuckerman-digital-cosmopolitanism-cognitive-diversity/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ezheadshothersman.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20130823T171408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130916T195619Z UID:5761-1379610000-1379617200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Hong Qu: "Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities\, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers" DESCRIPTION:Hong Qu\nWhen a big news story breaks\, Twitter goes crazy. Keepr tries to make sense of these periodic bursts by implementing natural language processing and social network analysis algorithms to surface topics\, eyewitnesses\, and amplifiers. A live demo will be followed by a discussion of the capabilities and limitations of computational newsgathering\, along with reports of how it is being used in newsrooms. \nHong Qu is a digital toolmaker. He has led teams at YouTube and Upworthy. He enjoys building social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hong-qu-keepr-algorithm-extracting-entities-eyewitnesses-amplifiers/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Keepr-Navy-Yard.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20140730T180348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150706T170706Z UID:21612-1368118800-1368122400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 DESCRIPTION:The MIT Press book we affectionately call 10 PRINT — actually 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 — was an unusual project in several respects. The book focuses on a single line of now-unfamiliar code\, code of the sort that millions typed in and modified in the 1970s and 1980s. The book contributes to several threads of contemporary digital media scholarship\, including critical code studies\, software studies\, and platform studies. Also somewhat oddly\, the book was written in a single voice by ten people: Nick Montfort\, Patsy Baudoin\, John Bell\, Ian Bogost\, Jeremy Douglass\, Mark C. Marino\, Michael Mateas\, Casey Reas\, Mark Sample\, and Noah Vawter. \nAt this CMS colloquium\, co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration\, which was organized by Montfort\, designed as a book by Reas\, and facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online (using a mailing list and a wiki) as well as (in a few cases) in person. The writing of 10 PRINT is offered as a new mode of scholarship\, very suitable in digital media but capable of being applied throughout the humanities. It brings some of the benefits of laboratory work and collaborative design practice to the traditionally individual mode of scholarly research and argument. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/10-print/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/10PRINT_06-640x480.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20141215T153201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141215T153201Z UID:21616-1366909200-1366916400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality DESCRIPTION:Chris Horak\nWe now live in a digital age\, seemingly guaranteeing instant accessibility. Much of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case\, because digitization is still massively expensive\, there is no such thing as a digital preservation medium\, and even the migration of digital films is fraught with technical difficulties. \nChris Horak is Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-horak-film-preservation-in-the-age-of-digitality/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/chris-horak.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T124612Z UID:30230-1366304400-1366311600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Size Is Only Half the Story:Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA DESCRIPTION:Mary L. Gray\nRecent provocations (boyd and Crawford\, 2011) about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology\, as a particular kind of “big data”. \nMary L. Gray\, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University\, will walk through the different dimensions of social inquiry that fall under the rubric of “big data”. She argues for attending to different dimensions rather than scales of data\, more collaborative approaches to how we arrive at what we (think we) know\, and critical analysis of the cultural assumptions embedded in the data we collect. By moving from the “snapshot” of quantitative work to the URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/size-is-only-half-story-valuing-dimensionality-big-data/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mary-gray.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211209T132503Z UID:30268-1365094800-1365102000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Cultural Feedback of Noise DESCRIPTION:Noise\, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback\, distortion\, and electronic effects\, first emerged in the 1980s\, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan\, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity\, ear-shattering sound\, and over-the-top performances\, Noise captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience\, despite remaining deeply underground. How did the submergent circulations of Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization\, intercultural exchange and participatory media at the turn of the millennium? In this talk\, I trace the “cultural feedback” of noise through the productive distortions of its mediated networks: its recorded forms\, technologies of live performance\, and into the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. \nDavid Novak teaches in the Music Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His work deals with the globalization of popular music\, media technologies\, experimental culture\, and social practices of listening. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Popular Music\, as well as the book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke University Press). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-feedback-noise/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/novak.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20140904T173849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140904T173849Z UID:21617-1362675600-1362682800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony\, Letterman and Leyner? DESCRIPTION:D. T. Max\nD.T. Max\, staff writer at the New Yorker\, will look at David Foster Wallace and irony\, with an eye especially on his 1990’s attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner\, both in publications and in private correspondence. When did David Foster Wallace become obsessed with irony and why? What made him so sure it was corrosive to civil culture or initiative? Or was the unease he felt in its presence really more the product of his own personal history? \nCo-hosted with Literature at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/david-foster-wallace-battle-against-irony-letterman-and-leyner/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DTMax.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20150327T134543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201206Z UID:21608-1360256400-1360263600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China DESCRIPTION:Marcella Szablewicz\nYoung people born in 1980’s and 1990’s China are the focus of a great deal of scholarly attention as they are the country’s first generation of only children. They are also the first generation to come of age with the Internet\, and\, for many\, playing Internet games forms an integral part of the youth experience. This presentation will explore the affective dimensions of digital games from the perspective of urban Chinese youth. What is the significance of an e-sports event that attracts tens of thousands of twenty-somethings\, many of whom experience it as a teary-eyed “farewell to their youth”? Or a viral video created by World of Warcraft gamers that urges millions of viewers to “raise their fists in solidarity” to show support for their “spiritual homeland”? What should we make of these phenomena that demonstrate\, ever more clearly\, the ways in which games are intertwined with people’s spiritual and emotional lives? Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant (2011) has called “cruel optimism\,” a relationship in which the very thing that is desired becomes an obstacle to flourishing? \nMarcella Szablewicz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on youth and digital media in urban China. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation\, provisionally entitled From Addicts to Athletes: Youth Mobilities and the Politics of Digital Gaming in Urban China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork supported by the Fulbright and National Science Foundations\, the book will examine the precarious socio-economic futures of urban Chinese youth through the lens of digital gaming culture\, while also considering how dominant discourse about digital leisure practice is shaped by larger cultural debates about patriotism and productivity\, class and the crafting of the “ideal citizen”. Her work can also be found in the Routledge volume Online Society in China and in the Chinese Journal of Communication. \nCo-sponsored by the Cool Japan Project. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-games-and-affect-in-urban-china/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/200-marcella2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20150325T183327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201012Z UID:21563-1354813200-1354820400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:New Forms\, New Markets for Independent Film DESCRIPTION:Independent film-maker Andrew Silver will discuss emerging forms of hybrid media\, some promising new pathways for distributing films and his career as a director and producer in this colloquium\, which will include clips from his most recent film\, Second Wind. Debra Wise of MIT’s Central Square Theater will join the discussion. Andrew and Debra played husband and wife in Radio Cape Cod\, a Silver production shot in Woods Hole. Andrew Silver is a graduate of MIT and the Harvard Business School\, co-author of a chapter in the HBS anthology Breakthrough Thinking\, and a long-time member of the Council for the Arts at MIT. His films are distributed by Tesco\, the second largest global retail chain: \n\nSecond Wind\, 13 min\nOverboard\, 16 min\nDownward Facing\, 6 min URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andrew-silver-new-forms-new-markets-independent-film/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/andrew-silver.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20150309T173159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T173238Z UID:21569-1354208400-1354215600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Minding the News DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \nSee Part 1 of this series\, from September 6\, featuring Francis Steen. \nMark Turner\nThe Red Hen Lab is a distributed laboratory for the study of network news. In an earlier talk\, Professor Francis Steen provided a technical overview of the activities of Red Hen and surveyed the study by Francis Steen and Mark Turner of international network news coverage of the Anders Bering Brevik event in Oslo\, Norway\, in July\, 2011\, with an emphasis on the way in which network news is occupied with the assessment of culpability\, blame\, and credit. \nThis talk will discuss research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news\, with an emphasis on blended joint attention\, story-telling\, counterfactuality\, and hypotheticals. \nMark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. \nHe is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes\, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity\, and Meaning\, Form\, & Body\, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin. His other publications include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics\, Economics\, Law\, and Society\, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language\, and many more. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the National Humanities Center\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins\, external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience\, distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology\, and Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum. In 1996\, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. For 2011-2012\, he is a fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minding-the-news/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/538px-MarkTurnerWikipedia.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121115T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20141121T155504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141121T155504Z UID:21568-1352998800-1353006000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You DESCRIPTION:Hector Postigo\nThis presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how\, generally\, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion. Capture describes the persistent ways in which social web platforms record and fix online/offline social and technical practices. Conversion applies to the way in which technical architectures convert what is captured into value (both culturally contingent and economic). The notions of capture and conversion are developed in light of other work in the field that seeks to understand how social web platforms use technology to leverage user generated content (UGC). The framework bridges a focus on ongoing social practice within/through platforms with analysis of technology as a determinant of probable practice. Ultimately this work is part of a larger project that seeks to develop a way of critically engaging the political economy of the social web while at the same time not ignoring the subject positions of those whose lives on display make it compelling. \nHector Postigo is Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. He is the co-founder of the blog culturedigitally.org and most recently the author of The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright from MIT Press and co-editor of Managing Privacy Through Accountability from Palgrave Press. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission. He teaches and writes about video game culture\, labor in digital networks\, and privacy and copyright on the social web. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hector-postigo-cultural-production-social-media-as-capture-platforms/ LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/HectorPostigo2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121018T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121018T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20150105T212038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150105T212038Z UID:21584-1350579600-1350586800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Gediminas Urbonas DESCRIPTION:Gediminas Urbonas\nGediminas Urbonas is artist and educator\, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture in the face of overwhelming privatization\, stimulating cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. Often beginning with archival research\, their methodology unfolds complex participatory works investigating the urban environment\, architectural developments\, and cultural and technological heritage. \nThe Urbonases have established their international reputation for socially interactive and interdisciplinary practice exploring the conflicts and contradictions posed by the economic\, social\, and political conditions of countries in transition. Working in collaboration they develop models for social and artistic practice with the interest to design organizational structures that question relativity of freedom. \nThey use art platform to render public spaces for interaction and engagement of the social groups\, evoking local communities and encouraging their cultural and political imagination. Combining the tools of new and traditional media\, their work frequently involves collective activities such as workshops\, lectures\, debates\, TV programs\, Internet chat-rooms and public protests that stand at the intersection of art\, technology and social criticism. \nThey are also co-founders of VILMA (Vilnius Interdisciplinary Lab for Media Art)\, and VOICE\, a net based publication on media culture. They have exhibited internationally including the San Paulo\, Berlin\, Moscow\, Lyon and Gwangju Biennales URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gediminas-urbonas/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/urbonas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120920T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120920T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20141015T173403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150324T152024Z UID:21576-1348160400-1348167600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jim Bizzocchi\, "Close-Reading Media Poetics" DESCRIPTION:Jim Bizzocchi\nClose reading is a classic humanities methodology for the analysis and understanding of texts across a variety of media. It’s a rigorous discipline — in the words of van Looy and Baetans: “The text is never trusted at face value\, but is torn to pieces and reconstituted by a reader who is at the same time a demolisher and a constructor.” This is a difficult task — the practice of close reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms\, and at the same time maintain a critical distance in order to observe and understand the construction and the effects of the text. Bizzocchi relies on close reading for his own scholarly work and uses various strategies to reconcile the contradictory states of experience and analysis. \nClose reading can be used to explicate works across a variety of dimensions: thematic\, cultural\, historical\, sociological\, and others. Bizzocchi’s goal is to understand the poetics — the creative decisions — embedded in media works. Bordwell describes poetics as “inquiry into the fundamental principles by which artifacts in any representational medium are constructed\, and the effects that flow from these principles”. Bizzocchi has always loved the magic of immersion in the experience of the moving image. As a scholar\, he says his role is “to seek within that immersive experience the details of how the magic is created”. He will present his analyses of Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair\, Tom Tykwer’s Run\, Lola\, Run\, and Gerrie Villon and Alex Mayhew’s Ceremony of Innocence (an interactive adaptation of The Griffin and Sabine trilogy by Nick Bantock). \nJim Bizzocchi is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, British Columbia. His research includes work on narrative\, interactive narrative\, and the evolution of the moving image. He teaches classes in these areas\, and is a recipient of the University Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a practicing video artist\, creating award-winning works in a genre he calls “Ambient Video”. Jim is a graduate of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program (2001). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jim-bizzocchi-close-reading-media-poetics/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/asset.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120913T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120913T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20140904T181702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140904T181702Z UID:21565-1347555600-1347562800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media DESCRIPTION:Nancy Baym\nSocial media have transformed relationships between those who create artistic work and those who enjoy it. Culture industries such as the music recording business have been left reeling as fans have gained the ability to distribute amongst themselves and artists have gained the ability to bypass traditional gatekeepers such as labels. The dominant rhetoric has been of ‘piracy\,’ yet there are other tales to tell. How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren’t before? How are relational lines between fans and friends blurred and with what consequences? What new challenges other than making a living do artists face? \nNancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity)\, Internet Inquiry (co-edited with Annette Markham\, Sage) and Tune In\, Log On: Soaps\, Fandom and Online Community (Sage). For the last two years she has been interviewing musicians about their relationships with audiences. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nancy-baym-artist-audience-relations/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Baym.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120911T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120911T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170601T183835Z UID:30259-1347382800-1347390000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:George Lakoff\, "The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why" DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \n\nGeorge Lakoff\nEverything we learn\, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood\, how campaigns are framed\, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other\, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it. \nGeorge Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1972. He previously taught at Harvard (1965-69) and the University of Michigan (1969-1972). \nHe graduated from MIT in 1962 (in Mathematics and Literature) and received his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1966. \nRead more at georgelakoff.com. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/george-lakoff-how-campaigns-framed-why/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/George_Lakoff.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120906T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120906T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170602T141400Z UID:30294-1346950800-1346958000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The News as a Social Process for Improving Society DESCRIPTION:Yves Citton\nWhat we are now accustomed to call the “knowledge economy” may be the Humanities’ worst enemy as well as their best friend. This presentation will attempt to focus the Humanities on a certain definition of the interpretive activity: while machines can “read” data\, only human subjectivities can “interpret” them. This typically human activity of interpretation requires specific conditions (a suspended time\, a protected space\, a certain indifference to objective truth\, an indirect mode of enunciation)\, which are often at odds with the demands of the capitalist knowledge economy (obsessed with communication\, information\, accuracy\, speed\, short-term profit). It is the future of Mankind\, which is at stake in the future of the Humanities\, insofar as they represent a continuous effort to promote an open culture of interpretation against the increasing pressure of the knowledge economy. \nYves Citton is a professor of French Literature of the 18th Century at the Université de Grenoble-3. He taught for 12 years in the department of French and Italian of the University of Pittsburgh\, PA\, and has been invited Professor at NYU\, Harvard and Sciences Po. He recently published Zazirocratie. Très curieuse introduction à la biopolitique et à la critique de la croissance (Ed. Amsterdam\, 2011)\, L’Avenir des Humanités. économie de la connaissance ou cultures de l’interprétation? (La Découverte\, 2010)\, Mythocratie. Storytelling et imaginaire de gauche (Ed. Amsterdam\, 2010)\, Lire\, interpréter\, actualiser. Pourquoi les études littéraires? (Ed. Amsterdam\, 2007) and L’Envers de la liberté. L’invention d’un imaginaire spinoziste dans la France des Lumières (Ed. Amsterdam\, 2006). \nSponsored by Comparative Media Studies\, Foreign Languages and Literatures\, and MIT France URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-social-process-improving-society/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Yves-Citton.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120510T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120510T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20140810T155040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140810T155129Z UID:21551-1336669200-1336676400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:How To Wreck A Nice Speech: Hearing Things With The Vocoder\, From World War II To Hip-Hop DESCRIPTION:Dave Tompkins\nInvented by Bell Labs in 1928 to reduce bandwidth over the Trans Atlantic Cable\, the vocoder would end up guarding phone conversations from eavesdroppers during World War II. By the Vietnam War\, the “spectral decomposer” had been re-freaked as a robotic voice for musicians. How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things\, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity. This is a terminal beach-slap of the history of electronic voices: from Nazi research labs to Stalin gulags\, from World’s Fairs to Hiroshima\, from Churchill and JKF to Kubrick and Kinski\, The O.C. and Rammellzee\, artificial larynges and Auto-Tune. Vocoder compression technology is now a cell phone standard–we communicate via flawed digital replicas of ourselves every day. Imperfect to be real\, we revel in signal corruption. \nDave Tompkins’ first book\, How To Wreck A Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop\, is now out in paperback. Amazon named it “top pick” for Entertainment book of the year in 2010. He has presented on the vocoder in Germany\, Netherlands (Jan Van Eyck)\, New York (Eyebeam Institute)\, London\, Poland (Unsound Festival)\, and at the NSA Cryptologic Symposium held at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Tompkins has written for Grantland\, Oxford American\, The Believer and The Wire. Tompkins is currently researching Sustained Decay bass sub-frequencies in Florida. Born in North Carolina\, he now lives in Brooklyn. \nCo-hosted with the MIT Cool Japan Project. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/dave-tompkins-how-to-wreck-a-nice-speech/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dave-Tompkins.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120426T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20141202T155446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141202T155446Z UID:21543-1335459600-1335466800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Designing Digital Humanities DESCRIPTION:Johanna Drucker\nWhat is the role of design in modeling digital humanities? Can we imagine new forms of argument and platforms that support interpretative work? So much of the computationally driven environment of digital work has been created by design/engineers that humanistic values and methods have not found their place in the tools and formats that provide the platform for research\, pedagogy\, access\, and use. The current challenge is to take advantage of the rich repositories and well-developed online resources and create innovative approaches to argument\, curation\, display\, editing\, and understanding that embody humanistic methods as well as humanities content. Designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes. Using some vivid examples and case studies\, this talk outlines some of the opportunities for exciting work ahead. \nJohanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design\, typography\, experimental poetry\, fine art\, and digital humanities. In addition\, she has a reputation as a book artist\, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago\, 2009)\, and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson\, 2008\, 2nd edition late 2012). She is currently working on a database memoire\, ALL\, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King’s College\, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work\, Digital_Humanities\, with Jeffrey Schnapp\, Todd Presner\, Peter Lunenfeld\, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming from MIT Press. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/johanna-drucker-designing-digital-humanities/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Johanna-Drucker_Credit-Stephanie-Gross.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120322T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120322T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20150302T200855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150302T200855Z UID:21553-1332435600-1332442800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Mapping the Urban Database Documentary DESCRIPTION:Jesse Shapins\nThe urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place. The genre emerges in the early 20th century\, and can be read as symptomatic of panoramic perception\, sensory estrangement and networked participation\, cultural utopias which respond to modernity’s underlying paradoxes. As such\, the invention of the computer did not give rise to the urban database documentary\, it only enabled new forms of its realization. The hope is to shift the conversation from a fetishization of ever-­new technological possibilities to a discussion of the underlying cultural aims/assumptions of media art practice and the specific forms through which works address modernity’s cultural tensions. \nJesse Shapins is a media theorist\, documentary artist\, and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times\, Metropolis\, PRAXIS and Wired\, cited in books such as The Sentient City and Networked Locality\, and been exhibited at MoMA\, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts\, among other venues. He is Co-Founder/Chief Strategy Architect of Zeega\, Co-Founder/Associate Director of metaLAB (at) Harvard\, and on the faculty of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, where he has invented courses such as The Mixed-Reality City and Media Archaeology of Place. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mapping-urban-database-dictionary/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/MIgTWah8Ii4qdS-wbAq1Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120308T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120308T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200325T165238Z UID:30265-1331226000-1331233200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window DESCRIPTION:David Kelley primarily works with digital video installation and photography\, with recent projects involving performance and sculpture. His practice consistently interrogates the apparatus of photography and film to encounter narrative in the process of becoming. His latest films\, set in Newfoundland and the Brazilian Amazon\, draw on the genre of ethnography as a narrative device to rehearse the real and imagined social relations of these sites. In Newfoundland\, Kelley participated in a remote art residency founded as a socio-economic redevelopment project on Fogo island\, an outport community with a failing fishing industry. In Manaus in the Amazon\, he filmed rehearsals of an independent film about drug-fueled indigenous suicides in the colonial Teatro Amazonas. The theater was funded by the fortunes of rubber barons and also served as the location for Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Kelley will show selections of his recent projects and related narrative and ethnographic films\, as well as rehearse a lecture/performance about architectural morphology and global tourism. \nKelley is an artist and Assistant Professor of Photography at Wellesley College. He received his MFA from University of California in Irvine and is a recent alumni of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. Kelley’s work has been shown at MassMoCA\, The Kitchen\, BAK in Utrecht\, and Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. His project with Patty Chang Flotsam Jetsam (2007) exhibited in New York at Museum of Modern Art’s 2008 New Directors New Films Festival and won the Golden Pyramid at the Cairo IMFAY Media Arts Festival. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/color-seawater-through-picture-window/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dkelley.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120301T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120301T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20150303T190934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T190934Z UID:21548-1330621200-1330628400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People's Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv DESCRIPTION:Sasha Costanza-Chock\nScholars and activists have hotly debated the relationship between social media and social movement activity during the current global cycle of protest. This talk investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture: the set of tools\, skills\, social practices\, and norms that movement participants deploy to create\, circulate\, curate\, and amplify movement media across all available platforms. \nMovement media cultures are shaped by their location within a broader media ecology\, and can be said to lean towards open or closed based on the diversity of spokespeople\, the role of media specialists\, formal and informal inclusion mechanisms\, messaging and framing norms\, and levels of transparency. The social movement media culture of the Occupy movement leans strongly towards open\, distributed\, and participatory processes; at the same time\, highly skilled individuals and dedicated small groups play key roles in creating\, curating\, and circulating movement media. Insight into the media culture of the Occupy movement is based on mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative insights come from semi-structured interviews with members of Media Teams and Press Working Groups\, participant observation and visual research in multiple Occupy sites\, and participation in Occupy Hackathons. Quantitative insights are drawn from a survey of over 5\,000 Occupy participants\, a crowdsourced database of the characteristics of approximately 1200 local Occupy sites\, and a dataset of more than 13 million tweets with Occupy related hashtags. \nSasha Costanza-Chock is Assistant Professor of Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University\, co-PI of the MIT Center for Civic Media\, and cofounder of the Occupy Research Network. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-culture-occupy-movement/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/scc-littleneck.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120223T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T073445 CREATED:20141218T151418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141218T151418Z UID:21554-1330016400-1330023600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Games and Journalism DESCRIPTION:Heather Chaplin\nAs a journalist covering games since 2001\, Chaplin has seen a lot of changes in the industry and among game academics. In this talk she will give an overview of the most important and interesting trends\, including emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences. This will include ideas about play as a crucial part of human development and a potentially subversive act\, and the rise of systems thinking. Chaplin is not a games evangelist\, so the talk will cast a skeptical eye on the current trend of games as an answer for all that ails society. She will also talk about my experiences in general as a journalist during the rise of the Internet\, and share my thinking on the journalism program she is developing at The New School. \nHeather Chaplin is an assistant professor of journalism at The New School and author of the book\, Smartbomb: The Quest for Art Entertainment and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, GQ\, Details\, and Salon. She was a regular contributor for All Things Considered\, covering videogames. She has been interviewed for and cited in on the topic of games for publications such as The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times Magazine\, Businessweek\, and The Believer and has appeared on shows such as Talk of the Nation\, and CBS Sunday Morning. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/heather-chaplin-games-and-journalism/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/heatherchaplin.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR