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SUMMARY:Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media
DESCRIPTION:Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall\, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11)\, will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable\, the old-fashioned\, the re-fashioned. Burges will talk about the turn away from the digital in contemporary cinema\, particularly the case of Fantastic Mr. Fox\, in an attempt to think about the uneven development of media over time. Marshall will discuss how popular but privatized platforms like Facebook and YouTube\, pop culture fashion—and the negotiable refashionability of both—present crucial challenges to the study of media today. \nJoel Burges works at the intersection of literary studies\, critical studies\, and media studies. His first book\, which is in progress\, is entitled The Uses of Obsolescence; it considers the fate of historical thinking in the media of late modernity\, especially literature and cinema. His second book\, in its very early stages\, is called Fiction after TV; it considers how a major mode of imaginative processing—fiction—is altered by the introduction of TV to post-1945 mediascapes. \nWayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist\, blogger (wayneandwax.com)\, and DJ\, specializing in the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas\, and their circulation in the wider world. Currently a Mellon Fellow at MIT\, he’s writing a book on music\, social media\, and digital youth culture. He co-edited and contributed to Reggaeton (Duke 2009) and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo while writing for popular outlets like XLR8R\, The Wire\, and the Boston Phoenix.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/joel-burges-wayne-marshall-refashionable-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the MIT Writers Series. \n \nCombining music documentary and social documentary\, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990’s Britain and the decades of cultural cross-pollination and political struggle that led up to that historic moment. Through a dynamic mix of live performances\, candid interviews\, and rare archival footage\, Mutiny presents the story of a generation that grew up defining itself in an environment of racial violence while drawing strength from both British street culture and South Asian roots. The artists who emerged from this generation became some of the greatest innovators in British music\, mixing the influences of their parents’ cultures with electronica\, hip-hop\, reggae\, and punk and producing unique and powerful new sounds. \nFeaturing: Asian Dub Foundation\, Talvin Singh\, State of Bengal\, Fun-Da-Mental\, Anjali\, DJ Ritu\, Black Star Liner and many others. \nVivek Bald\nVivek Bald is a documentary filmmaker and scholar whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora\, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. His previous films include “Taxi-vala/Auto-biography” (1994) about the lives\, experiences and activism of immigrant taxi drivers from India\, Pakistan and Bangladesh in early 1990s New York City\, as well as “Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music” (2003). His current work\, which examines the desertion and settlement of Indian Muslim merchant sailors in U.S. port cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, is the basis for a forthcoming book\, Bengali Harlem and the Hidden Histories of South Asian New York\, and a documentary film\, “In Search of Bengali Harlem.” He is Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Program in Comparative Media Studies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mutiny-asians-storm-british-music/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Code and Platform in Computational Media
DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort\nComputing plays an important role in some types of media\, such as video games\, digital art\, and electronic literature. It seems evident that an understanding of programming and computing systems may help us learn more about these productions and their role in culture. But few have focused on the levels of code and platform. Adding these neglected levels to digital media studies can help to advance the field\, offering insights that would not be found by focusing on the levels of experience and interface by themselves. The recent project of Critical Code Studies and two book series just started by The MIT Press\, Software Studies and Platform Studies\, represent a new willingness to consider digital media at these levels. With reference to mass-market and more esoteric systems and works\, ranging from Atari 2600 and arcade games to Talan Memmott’s Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]\, this talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works. \nNick Montfort is associate professor of digital media at MIT and has been part of dozens of academic\, editorial\, and literary collaborations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-montfort-code-and-platform-in-computation-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Complete Game-Completion Marathon for Haiti
DESCRIPTION:February 26-28th\, GAMBIT will be hosting the 2010 Complete Game-Completion Marathon to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti. Teams of players will gather at our MIT lab to attempt to complete a game in one sitting. Participants will independently seek sponsorship on a dollar/hour basis with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Haiti through Partners in Health\, and with support from the MIT Public Service Center. The labs will be open 24 hours a day through the weekend to accommodate the teams\, with snacks and refreshments available for the players.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/complete-game-completion-marathon-for-haiti/
LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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