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SUMMARY:Francisco Ricardo\, "The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects"
DESCRIPTION:One theme in the contemporary use of space involves the shift from production modeled around a physical\, centralized “locus” to new virtual\, extended and multi-axial modes of “projective” organization.  We see this in new sculpture\, new architecture\, and\, in electronic art\, an expressive embrace of geographic dispersal.  Although new materials\, methods\, and media have been central to modernist optimism\, many of their resulting physical and actual constructions have been dismissed\, discredited\, misunderstood\, or attacked. Using 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. \nFrancisco Ricardo is media and contemporary art theorist. A Research Associate at the University Professors Program and co-director of the Digital Video Research Archive at Boston University\, he also teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. His research examines historical\, conceptual\, and computational intersections between contemporary art and architecture\, on one hand\,and new media art and literature\, on the other. Recent publications include Cyberculture and New Media (Rodopi\, 2009) and Literary Art in Digital Performance (Continuum\, 2009).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/francisco-ricardo-aesthetics-projective-spatiality-new-media-critical-objects/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100923T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100923T170000
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SUMMARY:The Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
DESCRIPTION:Professor Fox Harrell’s research group — the Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression (ICE) Lab — builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts — “phantasmal media” systems. \nIn 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 types of expressive digital media. In this talk\, he will discuss his recent works and collaborations including the “Living Liberia Fabric\,” an AI-based interactive video documentary produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia to memorialize 14 years of civil war\, “Generative Visual Renku\,” an AI-based form of generative animation\, and several other projects. \nHarrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.” He is currently completing a book\, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression\, for the MIT Press. Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies\, Comparative Media Studies\, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/imagination-computation-expression-lab-phantasmal-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100520T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100520T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150107T195340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150109T161409Z
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SUMMARY:Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments
DESCRIPTION:Humanists have adopted visualization techniques with enthusiasm in recent years\, borrowing display formats from quantitative approaches rooted in social and natural sciences. But are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation? How are complexity\, contradiction\, uncertainty\, ambiguity\, and other basic features of interpretative activity to be given graphical expression? Does the introduction of affect into visual displays simply shift all visualization towards idiosyncratic and subjective approaches that lack clear legibility? Or can we imagine conventions that might introduce some of the necessary qualifications and variables essential to creating graphical expressions of humanistic interpretation? \nFeatured speaker: Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA where her research focuses in modeling interpretation for electronic scholarship\, digital aesthetics\, and the history of visual information design. Her teaching interests include the history of the book and print culture\, history of information\, and critical studies in visual knowledge representation. \nModerator: Kurt Fendt is director of HyperStudio\, MIT̢
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/johanna-drucker-graphical-expressions-of-humanistic-interpretations-in-digital-environments/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100502
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20170424T192422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200921T210757Z
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SUMMARY:ROFLCon
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored in part by CMS\, ROFLCon is “Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled. Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel.” \nAbout: roflcon.org \nRegistration: roflcon.org/registration
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/roflcon/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100426T210000
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CREATED:20140731T130608Z
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SUMMARY:12th Annual Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:An honored tradition returns this Spring when CMS presents the twelfth annual Media Spectacle. The event\, founded by late CMS program administrator Chris Pomiecko\, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students\, staff and faculty. \nHistorically\, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to narrative works created on every conceivable platform and device. Prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction\, and Audience Favorite. The event is judged by esteemed members of the CMS community\, including Cathy Pomiecko\, Chris’s sister.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/12th-annual-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100424
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CREATED:20141021T183118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141021T183118Z
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SUMMARY:CMS 10th Anniversary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. \nThis is ten years of groundbreaking applied humanities. Ten years of thinking across media forms\, national boundaries\, and historical periods. Ten years of bridging theory and practice\, of working with industry leaders\, artists\, and policymakers…ten years of preparing students for jobs that didn’t yet exist. \nSo we’re hosting a day-long celebration on April 23 looking back over the history of the program\, featuring alumni\, current students and researchers\, and even former director Henry Jenkins. We hope you can make it–and help us shape the next ten years of Comparative Media Studies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-10th-anniversary-symposium/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100422T170000
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CREATED:20150204T152855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150204T152855Z
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SUMMARY:Jenkins' Farewell
DESCRIPTION:Henry Jenkins\nHenry Jenkins’ 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC\, Jenkins returns to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture\, his work as the founding director of Comparative Media Studies\, and his experiences as a teacher and housemaster at MIT. \nModerated by William Uricchio.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jenkins-farewell/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100408T170000
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CREATED:20141208T164240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141208T164643Z
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SUMMARY:Exit Zero: Documentary Filmmaking\, Historical Memory\, and Personal Voice
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores 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. It examines questions of historical memory\, the use of personal voice\, and the long-standing relationship between anthropology and documentary filmmaking. The film utilizes material from multiple sources\, including cinéma vérité footage shot over the course of a decade\, interviews\, and home movies made by steel mill area residents between the 1930s and 1980s. The talk raises broader questions about the shifting nature of anthropological engagement with media-making and documentary film in particular. Clips from the work-in-progress will be shown. \nChris Boebel is a documentary and narrative filmmaker. He is the writer/director of a number of award-winning short fiction films\, the independent feature film Red Betsy\, and is co-director of the documentary Containment: Life After Three Mile Island. He currently works as a producer of films about science and engineering at MIT with AMPS/MIT Libraries. \nChristine Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. In conjunction with Chris Boebel\, she is making Exit Zero. The film serves as a companion to an in-progress book entitled\, The Struggle for Existence from the Cradle to the Grave.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/exit-zero-documentary-filmmaking-historical-memory-personal-voice/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100401T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100401T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170717T174106Z
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SUMMARY:The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press? This question has been posed with increasing force in recent years by anthropologists\, folklorists\, historians and literary scholars\, among them Thomas Pettitt\, who has contributed significantly to elaborating and communicating the version of this question named in the title of today’s forum. \nThe concept of a “Gutenberg Parenthesis” — formulated by Prof. L. O. Sauerberg of the University of Southern Denmark — offers a means of identifying and understanding the period\, varying between societies and subcultures\, during which the mediation of texts through time and across space was dominated by powerful permutations of letters\, print\, pages and books. Our current transitional experience toward a post-print media world dominated by digital technology and the internet can be usefully juxtaposed with that of the period — Shakespeare’s — when England was making the transition into the parenthesis from a world of scribal transmission and oral performance. \nMIT professors Peter Donaldson and James Paradis will join Pettitt in a discussion of the value of historical perspectives on our technologizing human present.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gutenberg-parenthesis-oral-tradition-digital-technologies/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100318T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100318T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150107T192355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150107T192355Z
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SUMMARY:Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
DESCRIPTION:In December\, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement “principles of transparency\, participation\, and collaboration\,” including deadlines for providing government information online. At the same time\, citizens and journalists are developing new technologies to manage and analyze the exponential increase in data about our civic lives available from governmental and other sources. What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from this nexus of government openness and digital connectedness? Our speakers Linda Fantin\, director of public insight journalism at Minnesota Public Radio and Ellen Miller\, executive director of the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation\, will explore this and related questions. Chris Csikszentmihalyi\, director of MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media\, moderates the discussion. \nCo-Sponsor: MIT Center for Future Civic Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/government-transparency-collaborative-journalism/
LOCATION:MIT Stata Center\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100311T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100311T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141104T195302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141104T195354Z
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SUMMARY:CMS Town Hall Forum
DESCRIPTION:Limited to CMS faculty\, students\, and invitees\, this is CMS’s semesterly forum to discuss candidly the successes\, challenges\, and direction of the program.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-town-hall-forum/
LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100303T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20170424T191731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T191731Z
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SUMMARY:Robots and Media: Science Fiction\, Anime\, Transmedia\, and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Ian Condry\nIan Condry\, Associate Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies and Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures\, will discuss the prevalence of giant robots in anime (Japanese animated films and TV shows). From the sixties to the present\, robot or “mecha” anime has evolved in ways that reflect changing business models and maturing audiences\, as can be seen in titles like Astro Boy\, Gundam\, Macross\, and Evangelion. How can we better understand the emergence of anime as a global media phenomenon through the example of robot anime? What does this suggest about our transmedia future? \n \nCynthia Breazeal\, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and founder/director of the Lab’s Personal Robots Group\, will discuss how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems\, both in research laboratories and corporations all over the world. She will explore of how science fiction has shaped ideas of the relationship and role of robots in human society\, how the existence of such robots is feeding back into science fiction narratives\, and how we might experience transmedia properties in the future using robotic technologies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/robots-media-science-fiction-anime-transmedia/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100301T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100301T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150324T152737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T200716Z
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SUMMARY:MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Project presents "Summer Wars"
DESCRIPTION:The New England premiere of the anime feature film “Summer Wars” (2009\, Director Mamoru HOSODA\, Madhouse / Kadokawa). The director and producer of the film\, both based in Japan\, will be present at the screening and will participate in a Q&A/discussion after the film. \nThe film explores the drama of high school romance\, hackers in virtual worlds\, the complexities of extended families\, and the potentials of our hyper-connected present. Suitable for all ages but aimed at teens and adults\, the film is a wonderful example of recent anime virtuosity by Japan’s hottest young director. Director Hosoda’s previous film\, “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” (2006)\, won many prizes including the Japan Academy Award for Best Animated Film. \n35mm print\, Japanese voices\, English subtitles. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/summer-wars/
LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 100\, Access Via 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100301
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141119T185253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141119T185253Z
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SUMMARY:Complete Game-Completion Marathon for Haiti
DESCRIPTION:February 26-28th\, GAMBIT will be hosting the 2010 Complete Game-Completion Marathon to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti. Teams of players will gather at our MIT lab to attempt to complete a game in one sitting. Participants will independently seek sponsorship on a dollar/hour basis with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Haiti through Partners in Health\, and with support from the MIT Public Service Center. The labs will be open 24 hours a day through the weekend to accommodate the teams\, with snacks and refreshments available for the players.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/complete-game-completion-marathon-for-haiti/
LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100225T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100225T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141105T144221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141105T144242Z
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SUMMARY:Code and Platform in Computational Media
DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort\nComputing plays an important role in some types of media\, such as video games\, digital art\, and electronic literature. It seems evident that an understanding of programming and computing systems may help us learn more about these productions and their role in culture. But few have focused on the levels of code and platform. Adding these neglected levels to digital media studies can help to advance the field\, offering insights that would not be found by focusing on the levels of experience and interface by themselves. The recent project of Critical Code Studies and two book series just started by The MIT Press\, Software Studies and Platform Studies\, represent a new willingness to consider digital media at these levels. With reference to mass-market and more esoteric systems and works\, ranging from Atari 2600 and arcade games to Talan Memmott’s Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]\, this talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works. \nNick Montfort is associate professor of digital media at MIT and has been part of dozens of academic\, editorial\, and literary collaborations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-montfort-code-and-platform-in-computation-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150325T173734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T200933Z
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SUMMARY:Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the MIT Writers Series. \n \nCombining music documentary and social documentary\, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990’s Britain and the decades of cultural cross-pollination and political struggle that led up to that historic moment. Through a dynamic mix of live performances\, candid interviews\, and rare archival footage\, Mutiny presents the story of a generation that grew up defining itself in an environment of racial violence while drawing strength from both British street culture and South Asian roots. The artists who emerged from this generation became some of the greatest innovators in British music\, mixing the influences of their parents’ cultures with electronica\, hip-hop\, reggae\, and punk and producing unique and powerful new sounds. \nFeaturing: Asian Dub Foundation\, Talvin Singh\, State of Bengal\, Fun-Da-Mental\, Anjali\, DJ Ritu\, Black Star Liner and many others. \nVivek Bald\nVivek Bald is a documentary filmmaker and scholar whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora\, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. His previous films include “Taxi-vala/Auto-biography” (1994) about the lives\, experiences and activism of immigrant taxi drivers from India\, Pakistan and Bangladesh in early 1990s New York City\, as well as “Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music” (2003). His current work\, which examines the desertion and settlement of Indian Muslim merchant sailors in U.S. port cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, is the basis for a forthcoming book\, Bengali Harlem and the Hidden Histories of South Asian New York\, and a documentary film\, “In Search of Bengali Harlem.” He is Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Program in Comparative Media Studies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mutiny-asians-storm-british-music/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100204T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100204T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150327T141949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201326Z
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SUMMARY:Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media
DESCRIPTION:Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall\, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11)\, will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable\, the old-fashioned\, the re-fashioned. Burges will talk about the turn away from the digital in contemporary cinema\, particularly the case of Fantastic Mr. Fox\, in an attempt to think about the uneven development of media over time. Marshall will discuss how popular but privatized platforms like Facebook and YouTube\, pop culture fashion—and the negotiable refashionability of both—present crucial challenges to the study of media today. \nJoel Burges works at the intersection of literary studies\, critical studies\, and media studies. His first book\, which is in progress\, is entitled The Uses of Obsolescence; it considers the fate of historical thinking in the media of late modernity\, especially literature and cinema. His second book\, in its very early stages\, is called Fiction after TV; it considers how a major mode of imaginative processing—fiction—is altered by the introduction of TV to post-1945 mediascapes. \nWayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist\, blogger (wayneandwax.com)\, and DJ\, specializing in the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas\, and their circulation in the wider world. Currently a Mellon Fellow at MIT\, he’s writing a book on music\, social media\, and digital youth culture. He co-edited and contributed to Reggaeton (Duke 2009) and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo while writing for popular outlets like XLR8R\, The Wire\, and the Boston Phoenix.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/joel-burges-wayne-marshall-refashionable-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100201
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150106T202523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T172435Z
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SUMMARY:Global Game Jam
DESCRIPTION:View 2010 projects.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam/
LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100114T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20140918T194642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140918T194642Z
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SUMMARY:Button Mash: Gender and Gaming at MIT
DESCRIPTION:Hillary Kolos\, Mia Consalvo\, and Lynda Williams \nButton mashing is one of many stereotypes about women who game that this session will question. This event will explore issues around gender and gaming\, as well as be an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play. The day will kick off with a panel discussion with Mia Consalvo\, visiting associate professor in CMS\, and other female game researchers and/or game industry professionals. Following the panel\, there will be time to play and discuss games that are interesting in terms of how they portray gender (i.e.\, Tomb Raider\, Mirror’s Edge\, Fat Princess). After a dinner break (pizza will be served!)\, we will invite all participants to join in on a roundtable discussion of what it’s like to be a woman that games at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/button-mash-gender-and-gaming-at-mit/
LOCATION:MIT Building N25\, Room 373\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100111T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20140915T180343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140915T180343Z
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SUMMARY:Board/Card Game Design - Expansions
DESCRIPTION:Ever played a board game and thought it was missing something? That you could make it better? In this class\, each group will pick an existing board game and develop an Expansion Pack that extends or modifies the rules. \nThe first session we will be talking about principles of game design\, picking groups\, and playing board games. The second will be focused on designing the expansions (with some materials provided). The final session will give groups an opportunity to complete their expansion and play-test each other’s games.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/board-card-game-design-expansions/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 135\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091215T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091215T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141113T144317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T144317Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Media Insights: "Race\, Rights\, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Nakamura \nAs ICT’s become available to new groups of users\, notably those from the global South\, new social formations of virtual labor\, race\, nation\, and gender are being born. And if virtual world users’ claims to citizenship and sovereignty within them are to be taken seriously\, so too must the question of “gray collar” or semi-legal virtual laborers and their social relations and cultural identity in these spaces. Just as labor migrants around the globe struggle to access a sense of belonging in alien territories\, so too do virtual laborers\, many of whom are East and South Asian\, confront hostility and xenophobia in popular gaming worlds and virtual “workshops” such as World of Warcraft and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Do these users have the right to have rights? This presentation considers the affective investments and cultural identities of these workers within the virtual worlds where they labor. \nLisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program\, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois\, Urbana Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press\, 2007)\, Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge\, 2000). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication\, PMLA\, Cinema Journal\, The Women’s Review of Books\, Camera Obscura\, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.   She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled Digital Race: An Anthology (Routledge\, forthcoming) and is working on a new monograph on Massively Multiplayer Online Role playing games\, the transnational racialized labor\, and avatarial capital in a “postracial” world.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-nakamura-race-rights-virtual-worlds/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 310\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091215T041500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091215T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141113T143737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T143900Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Media Insights: "From Gamer Theory to Critical Practice"
DESCRIPTION:McKenzie Wark \nHow might the critical tradition in media studies respond to the wildly proliferating media phenomena of today? In this presentation\, Ken Wark starts with his own experience writing Gamer Theory as a ‘networked book’\, mediating between Plato\, WordPress\, and World of Warcraft. This was an experiment in which critical media approaches were made to confront the computer game as an historically specific form\, the form perhaps of our times. It was also an attempt to create online tools for a specifically critical mode of collaborative writing\, at some remove from the argumentative and consensus style of the blog and wiki respectively. A third dimension to the experiment explored the relation of the gift of writing\, of time\, of attention\, to the commodified form of the book. What can be learned from the results of this experiment? How can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms\, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them? It is in its difference from what it studies that media studies begins to find the intellectual resources to respond adequately to the extraordinary world of media\, in all its historical and anthropological depth and breadth. \nMcKenzie Wark is chair of Culture & Media and associate dean of Eugene Lang College\, and an associate professor of critical studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP\, 2004)\, Gamer Theory (Harvard UP\, 2007) and various other things.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/from-gamer-theory-to-critical-practice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 310\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091207T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091207T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141113T141721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T141721Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Media Insights: "Art of the Impossible: Utopia\, Imagination\, and Critical Media Practice"
DESCRIPTION:In an economy of informational abundance\, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance? Or are there other\, perhaps more politically potent\, ways of thinking about the liberatory possibilities of media? By considering a range of examples\, from Thomas More’s 16th century Utopia to 21st century political art\, we will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of mediated utopias as a means of revitalizing the critical practice of communications. Of particular interest are impossible utopias\, “no-places” whose unrealizability is inscribed in their depiction. For it is through the encounter with their very impossibility that conditions for new critique and new imagination may be created. \nStephen Duncombe is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of New York University where he teaches the history and politics of media. He is the author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Underground Culture\, the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader\, and co-author of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920’s New York. He also writes on the intersection of culture and politics for a range of scholarly and popular publications\, from the cerebral\, The Nation\, to the prurient\, Playboy. Duncombe is a life-long political activist\, co-founding a community based advocacy group in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and working as an organizer for the NYC chapter of an international direct action group. Currently\, he is a Research Associate at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City where he co-founded and organized “The College of Tactical Culture” and is engaged in an ongoing investigation into the efficacy of political art. He is currently working on a book on the art of propaganda during the New Deal.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/stephen-duncombe-utopia-imagination-critical-media-practice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 310\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091201T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091201T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141113T160703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T160703Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Media Insights: "Viva Las Vegas: a Neo-Baroque Conception of the World"
DESCRIPTION:Angela Ndalianis \nEmerging in the mid 20th century (when Disneyland opened its doors in 1955)\, the theme park created the ultimate in trompe l’oeil effects by extending the fictional world of Disney animation into the social sphere. In doing so\, Disney produced a networked environment that conjured wondrous spaces that both performed for the audience and which were for performing within. Over the last two decades\, Las Vegas has adopted and extended this theme park logic into the urban sphere. Travelling briefly back to the era of the movie palace\, this paper will consider contemporary Las Vegas as a neo-baroque mediascape that extends the theme park’s delight in performativity\, theatricality and sensorial engagement into the wider social realm. Drawing on Umberto Eco’s concept of ‘pansemiotics’\, it will be argued that spectacle cities like Las Vegas operate according to the logic of a giant wunderkammer — relying on an emblematic understanding of the meaning of objects and the interrelationship between them. In particular\, this paper will analyze how this city-as-monument to entertainment and leisure culture has appropriated tropes and modes of engagement taken from pre-20th Century high culture traditions of the Church and aristocracy. But whereas palaces\, theatrical spectacles\, churches\, and piazzas stood as monuments to the grandeur of their aristocratic patrons\, in our current time\, these new entertainment environments stand as monuments to corporate conglomerates and the masses who inhabit these worlds. \nAngela Ndalianis is currently associate professor in cinema and cultural studies at the University of Melbourne.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/angela-dalianis-viva-las-vegas-neobaroque-conception/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14N\, Room 313\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091130T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091130T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20141113T145018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T145018Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Media Insights: "The Googlization of Everything"
DESCRIPTION:Siva Vaidhyanathan \nGoogle seems omniscient\, omnipotent\, and omnipresent. It also claims to be benevolent. It’s no surprise that we hold the company to almost deific levels of awe and respect. But what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world? This talk will describe Siva Vaidhyanathan’s own apostasy and suggest ways we might live better with Google once we see it as a mere company rather than as a force for good and enlightenment in the world. \nSiva Vaidhyanathan\, cultural historian and media scholar\, is currently associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/siva-vaidhyanathan-googlization-of-everything/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14N\, Room 313\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091122
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20140805T180519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140805T180519Z
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 4
DESCRIPTION:Convergence has moved swiftly from buzzword to industry logic. The creation of transmedia storyworlds\, understanding how to appeal to migratory audiences\, and the production of digital extensions for traditional materials are becoming the bread and butter of working in the media. Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders who are shaping these new directions in our culture and academic scholars immersed in the investigation the social\, cultural\, political\, economic\, and technological implications of these changes in our media landscape.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-4/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091119T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20140917T193149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140917T193210Z
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SUMMARY:Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Vandermeer with Kevin Smokler. \nFictional experiments in emerging media like Twitter and Facebook are influencing traditional printed novels and stories in interesting ways\, but another intriguing new narrative is also emerging: the rise of “artifacts” that\, although they support a writer’s career\, have their own intrinsic creative value. What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life caused by new media and a proliferation of “open channels”? What protective measures must a writer take to preserve his or her “self” in this environment? In addition to the guerilla tactics implicit in storytelling through social media and other unconventional platforms\, in what ways is a writer’s life now itself a story irrespective of intentional fictive storytelling? Examining these issues leads naturally to a discussion on the tension and cross-pollination between the private and public lives of writers in our transmedia age\, including the strategies and tactics that best serve those who want to survive and flourish in this new environment. What are we losing in the emerging new paradigm\, and what do we stand to gain?
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/booklife-private-public-transmedia-storytelling-self-promotion/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091029T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20140929T181035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T181035Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Rouse\, "Cinematic Games"
DESCRIPTION:Richard Rouse \nMany people talk about “cinematic” games\, but what does this really mean? Over their century of existence\, films have been using a range of techniques to create specific emotional responses in their audience. Instead of simply using more cut-scenes\, better script writers\, or making more heavily scripted game experiences\, game designers can look to film techniques as an inspiration for new techniques that accentuate what games do well. This lecture will present film clips from a number of classic movies\, analyze how they work from a cinematic standpoint\, and then suggest ways these techniques can be used in gameplay to create even more stimulating experiences for gamers\, including examples from games that have successfully bridged the gap. \nRichard Rouse III is a game designer and writer\, best known for The Suffering horror games and his book Game Design: Theory & Practice. He is currently the Lead Single Player Designer on the story-driven FPS Homefront at Kaos Studios in New York City.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/richard-rouse-cinematic-games/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091015T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20150506T153139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150506T153139Z
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SUMMARY:Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Elisa Kreisinger \nRemixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws that threaten to obstruct the public discursive space for critiquing popular culture. These spaces are abundant with meticulously crafted and articulate video remixes that deconstruct social myths\, challenge dominant media messages and form powerful arguments reflecting the participatory nature of both pop and remix cultures. We’ll deconstruct these videos\, honor the history of female fan vidders and the influences of African-American hip-hop cultures and debate the remix’s ability to effect actual change. \nElisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist\, hacktivst and writer. She co-edits the blog\, PoliticalRemixVideo.com\, teaches new media to Cambridge teens and is currently working on her first screenplay.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/elisa-kreisinger-political-remix-video/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164341
CREATED:20161026T192226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T192352Z
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SUMMARY:Race\, Politics and American Media
DESCRIPTION:The election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama’s ascension transformed anything? Many people’s answer to that question changed this summer when a famous Harvard professor was arrested at his home in Cambridge. Are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier\, following the media tsunami of Gatesgate? And has this polarizing event given greater visibility to racial minorities in the media’s coverage of politics? How are race issues and racial politics covered in our national media\, and what are the implications of the demise of major city newspapers for the coverage of race and politics? \nJuan Williams of NPR and Fox News will discuss these and related questions in a candid conversation with Phillip Thompson\, associate professor of urban politics in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT\, and David Thorburn\, professor of literature and director of the MIT Communications Forum.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-politics-american-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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