Stop Playing. Start Creating. Repeat
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAOn Tuesday October 17th, representatives from Electronic Arts will be making a presentation on the MIT campus.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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New Media and Art
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis roundtable is made up of leading figures in the field of media art curators, authors, network directors, and innovative developers who will address the current issues on art in the age of digital reproduction.
Cruel 2 B Kind: Halloween Special!
Near Harvard Square 18 Brattle St, Cambridge, MAOn October 31 -- Halloween! -- CMS will be sponsoring a free public game (and costume contest) near Harvard Square called "Cruel 2 B Kind" (cruelgame.com).
Media Evangelism in the Global South
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MATimothy Stoneman outlines the historical origins, systemic achievements, and interpretive implications of the American missionary radio broadcasting enterprise in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during its formative era, 1945 to 1970.
Mimesis, Sacrifice, and Victimhood
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MARey Chow's talk will be based on her latest book, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work.
CMS Information Sessions
Please contact the CMS office at cms@mit.edu or 617-253-3599 to reserve a space.
Futures of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
Film Screening: Quest for Home: GayBombay
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACMS is delighted to host a special screening of the documentary video Quest for Home: Gaybombay, by former CMS alum and colleague Parmesh Shahani.
Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player
MIT Building 1, Room 136 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAJesper Juul: "Video game players are neither rational solvers of abstract problems, nor daydreamers in fictional worlds, but both of these things with shifting emphasis."
Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MASharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
CMS Online Information Session
Please contact the CMS office at cms@mit.edu or 617-253-3599 to reserve a space.
Paper and panel proposal deadline for fifth Media in Transition conference!
MiT5: "creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age", will be held April 27-29, 2007. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 5.
Documentary Filmmaking: A One Day Survival Guide
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MADocumentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv, editing and getting it seen.
“Translation” in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor
MIT Building 1, Room 132 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MATransferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970
MIT Building 1, Room 246 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAThis is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
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