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SUMMARY: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)
DESCRIPTION: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 of LBP activists wrote a controversial novel titled Q\, which was published to much acclaim in 1999.  In January 2000 the authors of Q founded the Wu Ming Foundation\, which takes its name from a Chinese word meaning either “anonymous” or “five names” depending on how the first syllable is pronounced. The name is meant both as a tribute to dissidents (“Wu Ming” is a common byline among Chinese citizens demanding democracy and freedom of speech) and as a refusal of the celebrity-making machine which turns authors into stars. \nWu Ming’s works include 54\, a novel with dozens of characters (including Cary Grant and Marshall Tito) set in 1954; the screenplay for Guido Chiesa’s movie Radio Alice (2004); and numerous “solo” novels\, including Wu Ming 1’s New Thing (2004).  They have also collaborated with musicians\, actors\, comic authors\, playwrights\, film-makers\, graphic artists and academics in a plethora of multimedia and transmedia projects. \nThe group’s most recent novel\, Manituana\, was published in Italy in March of 2007. It is the first episode of an 18th-century pan-Atlantic trilogy which will keep them writing at least until 2012. Manituana reached as high as #4 in the Italian bestseller charts\, and translation rights have been purchased by French and Spanish publishers. Manituana is also at the center of a complex transmedia project which is briefly described at http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/giap/giapdigest36.htm.  All of their books are freely downloadable from their website\, http://www.wumingfoundation.com.  \nEvent open only to the MIT Community. \nFunded (in part) by a Director’s Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/slightly-more-than-expected-from-band-novelists-on-how-why-group-writers-called-wu-ming-set-disrupt-italian-nay-european-literature-popular-culture-then-came-boston-brag-about-it/
LOCATION:MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Theatrical Science: Automata\, Exhibition\, and Claude Shannon's Epic Theater of Science
DESCRIPTION:Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan\nIn the mid-1950s at Bell Labs\, America’s wealthiest and most influential industrial research center\, mathematician Claude Shannon began theorizing\, writing about\, and building automata. Initially conceived as laboratory playthings and thought experiments\, these devices emerged as minor celebrities in 1950s science and popular culture. In this lecture\, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (Northwestern University\, MIT Visiting Scholar) situates these artifacts within postwar exhibition and publicity practices at Bell Labs\, which regularly re-constructed specialized research as sensual theaters for scientific play and the popular imagination. Tracing these artifacts’ migration from the laboratory to postwar television and popular press\, and borrowing from the work of Bertolt Brecht\, Geoghegan develops a concept of theatrical science that bridges research methods in the history of science and media studies. \nCo-presented with the Program in Science\, Technology and Society.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/theatrical-science-automata-exhibition-claude-shannons-epic-theater-science/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 10th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHistorically\, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to narrative works created on every conceivable platform and device (mobisode anyone?). Since the dawning of YouTube and other user-generated video websites\, the number of submissions has increased substantially.  This endeavor has also been aided by Campus Movie Fest\, a corporate-sponsored organization which invades universities internationally to teach students how to make films and supply them with the equipment to do so\, all free of charge. That effort\, combined with the fine video courses offered here at MIT through course 4\, will certainly provide a wide array of choices to select from this year. \nThe event is hosted by Professor Henry Jenkins and judged by esteemed members of the CMS community as well as Cathy Pomiecko\, the sister of the late CMS program administrator Chris Pomieicko.  After all of this year’s selected pieces are screened\, the undergraduate winner  for best film will receive a cash prize and the Chris Pomiecko Trophy followed by the Michaelangelo Antonioni Award for the best non-undergraduate entry. \nSubmissions will be accepted until April 10th in any format (DVD preferred) with a maximum running time of 30 minutes.  We also ask if you could indicate your MIT affiliation when entering.  All entries may be sent to Generoso Fierro\, MIT\, NE25-385\, 77 Masssachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA 02139.  Please direct all questions to generoso [at] mit [dot] edu.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/10th-annual-cms-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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