Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJoel Burges and Wayne Marshall will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACombining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990's Britain. Featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun-Da-Mental, Anjali, DJ Ritu, Black Star Liner and many others.
Code and Platform in Computational Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Complete Game-Completion Marathon for Haiti
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAParticipants will independently seek sponsorship on a dollar/hour basis with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Haiti.
MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Project presents “Summer Wars”
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe 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.
Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAIan Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.
CMS Town Hall Forum
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MALimited to CMS faculty, students, and invitees, this is CMS's semesterly forum to discuss candidly the successes, challenges, and direction of the program.
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
MIT Stata Center, Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAMinnesota Public Radio's Linda Fantin and Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller discuss how new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from a nexus of government openness and digital connectedness.
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAIs 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?
Exit Zero: Documentary Filmmaking, Historical Memory, and Personal Voice
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAFilmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on 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.
Jenkins’ Farewell
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAHenry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
CMS 10th Anniversary Symposium
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWe're hosting a day-long celebration looking back over the history of the program, featuring alumni, current students and researchers, and even former director Henry Jenkins.
12th Annual Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe 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.
ROFLCon
Sponsored in part by CMS, ROFLCon is "Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled."
Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
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