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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
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 research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related […]
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.
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