Michael Taussig: “Mooning Texas”
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAAn adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim’s “take” on Mauss + Hubert’s “take” on mana + the creativity of gossip.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MACambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley--both MIT alumni--join engineering student Abubakar Abid to explore how hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, discuss its impact on the lives of Muslim-Americans, and examine strategies to combat it.
CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThesis presentations by the CMS Graduate Class of 2016. Topics range from interactive livestreaming to comics to gender in video games. Open to the public.
Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADrawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
CMS/W Town Hall
Closed to the public.
MIT Open House, with CMS/W Events
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute's work.
17th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe CMS Media Spectacle showcases video projects of all genres created by MIT students, staff, faculty and affiliates. Submit yours by April 20!
Fox Harrell: “Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAFox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAA panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality -- Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen -- to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
“Innovation” and “Engagement”: Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MASam Ford and Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss Fusion Media Group’s experiments with exploring new ways of telling stories, relationships with key publics, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MASun-ha Hong on how "big" data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAChristine Walley, Professor of Anthropology at MIT, will present an overview of the Exit Zero Project, which "seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization."
Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MADouglas O’Reagan will update the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT.
This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media, Protest, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MABaruch College's Allison Hahn on how academics might engage once-distant communities and better understand the complexity of mobile media and nomadic deliberation.
How Did the Computer Learn to See?
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MADid computers learn to see by modernity's most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
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