Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion.
Combining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990's Britain. Featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun-Da-Mental, Anjali, DJ Ritu, Black Star Liner and many others.
This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Participants will independently seek sponsorship on a dollar/hour basis with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Haiti.
The New England premiere of the anime feature film "Summer Wars" (2009, Director Mamoru Hosoda, Madhouse / Kadokawa). The director and producer of the film, both based in Japan, will be present at the screening and will participate in a Q&A/discussion after the film.
Ian Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.