IAP 2017: Global Game Jam
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA"Come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games."
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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“Hands On” Workshop and Demo
MIT Building 4, Room 145 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MALearn how to draw the hand and why you couldn’t do it before.
Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMIT's Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public's ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MASlate's Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
Hacking VR Speaker Series: Brian Chirls, “WebVR”
Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAVirtual Reality productions are on the rise. But is the medium even available? How can we start thinking about the accessibility and democratization of immersive production, creation and consumption?
Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASeeking to unravel the analytical split between the "drawn" and the "digital" in animation and media studies more broadly, Paul Roquet’s project moves back and forth between two desktops: the hard surface of the drawing table and the pixelated surface of the screen.
Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAzeen Ghorayshi, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard, and Harvard history of science professor Evelynn M. Hammonds discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to over come them.
Hacking VR Speaker Series: Masterclass with Arnaud Colinart
Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAA walk through an innovative and groundbreaking award-winning project, Notes on Blindness, from ideation to production, post-production and distribution.
Hacking VR Speaker Series: Eloi Champagne, “Leading Innovation at the NFB”
Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe National Film Board of Canada is one of the leading forces of VR for both linear and interactive productions. Learn more about their inspirations, decisions and workflows, from production, conceptualization and developing new collective spaces for creation.
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACharles Musser: "19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship."
The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAGlorianna Davenport presents DoppelMarsh, data from a dense network of diverse environmental sensors mapped to deliver “a sense of being there” in a re-synthesized, ever-changing landscape.
Hacking VR Speaker Series: Masterclass with Vincent Morisset
Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACreating with immersive and interactive tools. Is there even a box? Rethinking the rules of immersive storytelling. Meet one of the leading voices in innovation, interactive medium and creative digital artwork. Vincent is author of acclaimed, Emmy and Webby Awarded works such as Bla-Bla, Way-to-Go (NFB/France Télévisions) and interactive music videos (Neon Bible) resulting from a seven year collaboration with Arcade Fire.
Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAYasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
Cambridge Residence Inn, Doc Edgerton Room 6 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAYou are cordially invited to attend the thesis presentations of the Class of 2017 in Comparative Media Studies. The event will be held in the Doc Edgerton room, on the first floor of the Cambridge Residence Inn at 6 Cambridge Center. Coffee and conversation at 9:30, presentations begin at 10:00 am. Open to the public. For […]
An Evening with Aparna Nancherla
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAparna Nancherla heads to MIT this spring for a moderated discussion on her career and her honesty about her struggles with depression.
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