Board Game Workshop
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIn each session established board games will be played and modifications based on game play will be made.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Beowulf – a FREE screening!
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MASony Imageworks in conjunction with MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program and LSC present a screening of the 2007 Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman scripted film: BEOWULF! Attendance is FREE!
Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
MIT Building 50, Room 030 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
From Film to Videogames
MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADiscussion of adaptation with Matthew Weise: How film genres get translated into videogames.
Katie Jacobs: “It’s Never Lupus! Fox’s House, M.D. and the New Procedural Drama”
MIT Building E51, Room 325 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAKatie Jacobs is co-showrunner of the hit NBC series House, M.D., nominated for two consecutive seasons for the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series.
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.
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.
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