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 Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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?"
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAProfessor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In 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 […]
Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAUsing 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.
Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADavid Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
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