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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)

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Wu 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 […]

The 10th Annual CMS Media Spectacle

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

An 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 […]

Junot Díaz photo

A Conversation with Junot Díaz

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Questions 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.

Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson

The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present their book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.

John Bell

Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

John 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, MA

Is 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, MA

Robert 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, MA

Diana 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, MA

Sharon 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

Lev Manovich

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Lev 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, MA

This 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.

GAMBIT: Videogame Company Tours

GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Philip 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.