“Searching for the Origami Unicorn”: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAHenry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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LineStorm Animation Exploration
MIT Building 56, Room 167 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAA workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
Keitai Cool: The Latest in Mobile Phone Lifestyles in Japan and Beyond
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJapan's cell phone (or keitai) culture is the most developed in the world today, with new uses, marketing strategies, and social relationships increasingly transforming the ways people communicate and experience their own identity.
LineStorm Animation Exploration
MIT Building 56, Room 167 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABack for a second year, this is a workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
MIT Building 50, Room 030 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
Noir: The Shorthand Guide…
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis session will briefly look at Film Noir's roots in German Romanticism and Expressionism, its relationships with contemporary arts, and its successors in contemporary film culture.
Documentary Filmmaking: A One Day Survival Guide
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MADocumentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv, editing and getting it seen.
“Translation” in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor
MIT Building 1, Room 132 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MATransferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970
MIT Building 1, Room 246 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAThis is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
Make Zombie Madness!
MIT Building 1, Room 246 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAJoin award-winning independent filmmakers Kristina Drzaic and Neal Grigsby as they lead you through scripting, makeup, learning how to make special f/x gore, and shooting your very own zombie movie.
Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
MIT Building 50, Room 030 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
GAMBIT Videogame Lecture Series
MIT Building 2, Room 151 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMembers of Comparative Media Studies' GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture.
Jaroslav Švelch: “Czech Underground Rock Music: Forbidden Fandom”
MIT Building 1, Room 132 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAAn account of Czech underground rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s when rock music was considered suspicious and counterrevolutionary.
Qualitative Research Workshop
MIT Building 2, Room 135 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWorking in small teams, students will design and conduct a qualitative project designed to propose strategy for media and cultural organizations.
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