CMS Class of 2008 Thesis Presentations
MIT Building 35, Room 225 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAThe event is open to the public; CMS students, faculty, associates and friends of the program are all warmly welcomed to attend.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)
MAWu Ming 1 is a founding member and representative of the Wu Ming Foundation, a collective of writers from Italy. Most members of the collective were deeply involved in the Luther Blissett Project, an international experiment in culture jamming, radical pranksterism and guerrilla mythology that ran from 1994 to 1999. During that time, a group […]
Theatrical Science: Automata, Exhibition, and Claude Shannon’s Epic Theater of Science
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAAt Bell Labs, America's wealthiest and most influential industrial research center, Claude Shannon began theorizing, writing about, and building automata.
The 10th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAAn honored tradition returns on April 28th at 7PM when CMS presents the tenth annual Media Spectacle. The event, founded by Chris Pomiecko, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty. Historically, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to […]
A Conversation with Junot Díaz
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAQuestions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy.
The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present their book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.
Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Bell examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture.
Communications Forum: “The Campaign and the Media 1
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIs it true, as many have suggested, that the influence of newspapers and television has declined in the digital era? Have the media become more partisan and polarized?
Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MARobert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
Comics and Social Conflict
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADiana Tamblyn, Ho Che Anderson, and Jeet Heer on the unique opportunities comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives.
Military Training and Compelling Experience
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASharon Ghamari-Tabrizi will talk about the various meanings of what counts as a "compelling experience" for military simulation -- and how this phrase “compelling experience” can be used as a thematic marker for differentiating the present moment from cold war-era immersive simulations.
Lev Manovich
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media, which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."
Futures of Entertainment 3
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis year's conference will work to bring together the themes from last year -- media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution -- with the Consortium's new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
Making Deep Games: An inspirational workshop about harnessing the power of metaphors for experience design
MIT Building N25, Room 373 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIn this workshop, attendees will learn how to become more conscious about the mechanisms of complex abstract concepts, to pin down their evasive elements, to translate them into concrete rule sets and to make them tangible via procedural metaphors.
GAMBIT: Videogame Company Tours
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAPhilip Tan, the executive director of US operations for GAMBIT will be leading tours of local video game companies to help you understand the day to day goings on of the rapidly growing video game industry.
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