MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Media Spectacle prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry, Animation, and more.
"Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel."
How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art?
Dave Tompkins' How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity.
Yves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
The games showcased in this exhibit demonstrate that there is a wide variety of approaches one can follow in adapting literary works into games.
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it.
Nancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"
September 20, 2012. If you would like to attend an on-campus info session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Close reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms, and at the same time maintain a critical distance.
What can finance, health care, philanthropy, and education learn from cutting-edge games and game theory?
Jeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Join us at 10am on October 4, 2012, here at cms.mit.edu!
Gediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
If you would like to attend an on-campus info session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
