Machine Visions
MIT Building 10, Room 150 MAMachine Visions is a grad student-run event series focused on developing cross-department connections around topics related to computer vision at MIT.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Civic Arts Series, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAThe idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MASohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus."
Civic Arts Series: “Thumbs Type and Swipe” featuring DIS’s Lauren Boyle
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MADIS enlists leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, philosophy, and technology, with the aim to inspire, inform and mobilize a generation around the urgent issues facing us today and tomorrow.
Civic Arts Series, “Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAHaidee Wasson will explore the long and vibrant place of portable film devices in the history of small media, repositioning the "movie theatre" as the singular or even central figuration of film presentation and viewing.
POSTPONED: “No Yankee Rule for Us”: Annexation Rumors and the Interwar Circum-Caribbean Black Press
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAPrinceton's Reena Goldthree examines how Caribbean newspapers—published in the islands and in the diaspora—facilitated the spread of annexation rumors and provided a crucial platform for West Indians to challenge U.S. imperial expansion.
Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConcepts of participation, trust, and democracy are increasingly fraught, essential, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes?
Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAProfessor Christopher Weaver, Founder of Bethesda Softworks, will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
Ian Condry, “Sound, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAProfessor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.
Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
Helen Elaine Lee: “Pomegranate”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAHelen Elaine Lee reads from the manuscript of her novel, Pomegranate, about a recovering addict who is getting out of prison and trying to stay clean, regain custody of her children, and choose life.
Design and Semantics of Form and Movement
Cambridge, MADeSForM (Design and Semantics of Form and Movement) seeks to present current research into the nature, character and behavior of emerging typologies of connected and intelligent objects within adaptive systems.
Anushka Shah, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAnushka Shah asks, our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally — can entertainment and pop culture be a way out?
Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAVivek Bald will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAProfessor William Uricchio on how co-creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter?
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