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SUMMARY:CMS Alumni Panel (closed session)
DESCRIPTION:For current CMS grad students only. Guest alums include Eduardo Marisca\, Mariel García Montes\, Evan Higgins\, and Lilia Kilburn. Hosted by Prof. Heather Hendershot.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-alumni-panel-closed-session/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Thurston\, “Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\nThis talk will introduce arguments and examples from Nick Thurston’s current book project\, Document Practices\, which explores aesthetic and political frameworks for analyzing acts of re-publishing already public documents. With case studies that range from shadow libraries to experimental videos\, and ideas about “the document” which haunt the sociology of literature as much as documentary arts practice\, Nick will sketch out the project’s starting points and some of its key debates.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDocuments remain the primary media form of public information and record\, so the social and epistemological status of “the document” should be central to a spectrum of debates\, from data literacy norms to intellectual property claims. Yet\, as buzz terms like “post-truth” and “deep fake” remind us\, the social lives of documents are entwined with the techno-political conditions of the communities who produce\, save and share them. As such\, the status of any document and its content are both contextually variable. Since the 1970s\, as a response to the suppression of marginalized histories and the rise of personal computing\, radical practitioners from across the arts have shifted from representing “the document” as a symbol of power to critically (and sometimes illegally) re-publishing documents as an artistic act. \n\n\n\nWith this macro picture in mind\, Nick’s project takes the micro perspective of art criticism to figure out some comparative frameworks for thinking across media and across artforms about the public-ness of publishing. \n\n\n\n\nThese preliminaries settled\, he did not care to put off any longer the execution of his design\, urged on to it by the thought of all the world was losing by his delay\, seeing what wrongs he intended to right\, grievances to redress\, injustices to repair\, abuses to remove\, and duties to discharge. \n\n\n\nAbout Nick Thurston\n\n\n\nNick Thurston is a writer and editor who makes artworks. He is the author of two experimental books\, Reading the Remove of Literature (2006) and Of the Subcontract (2013)\, the latter of which has been translated into Dutch (2016)\, Spanish (2019) and German (2020). He writes regularly for the literary and arts press as well as for independent and academic publications. His most recent book is the co-edited collection Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right (2018). His recent exhibitions include shows at Transmediale (Berlin\, 2018)\, Q21 (Vienna\, 2018)\, MuHKA (Antwerp\, 2018) and HMKV (Dortmund\, 2019).  \n\n\n\n\nFrom 2006–18 he was a co-editor of the influential publishing collective Information As Material (York)\, with whom he was Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery (London\, 2011–12). He has been Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin\, 2014) and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2020). He is currently Associate Professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds\, where he co-founded the Artists’ Writings & Publications Research Centre and is a fellow of the Poetry Centre.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-thurston-document-practices-the-art-of-propagating-access/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Memorial Colloquium for Professor Jing Wang
DESCRIPTION:Attending in person: Attendance limited to MIT community members enrolled in Covid Pass. Please bring your MIT ID. \n\n\n\nStreaming: This event will be available live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Jing Wang — a beloved longtime colleague\, vocal supporter of Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, and mentor to countless students and fellow faculty — passed away at age 71 this past July. At this Colloquium\, we publicly honor her life and work\, featuring brief talks by some of those who knew her best. They include: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma J. Teng\, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations in MIT History and the Director of Global Languages. She teaches classes in Chinese culture\, Chinese migration history\, Asian American history\, East Asian culture\, and women’s and gender studies. Teng was Wang’s close colleague in Chinese studies for two decades. \n\n\n\nT.L. Taylor\, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and co-founder of AnyKey\, an organization dedicated to diversity and inclusion in gaming. She is a qualitative sociologist whose research explores the interrelations between culture and technology in online environments. She was a colleague to Wang\, working with her on various department-related issues\, but mostly counted her as a dear friend.  \n\n\n\nHan Su\, S.M. CMS\, ’20\, is Founder & CEO of Privoce\, which builds tools to help netizens take better control of their data. Jing Wang served as advisor on his thesis Theory and Practice Towards a Decentralized Internet. \n\n\n\nTani Barlow\, George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at Rice University\, who met Wang in 1986 at Duke University\, where Barlow came to her first academic conference.  Over the next 45 years\, Wang and Barlow were close friends\, sisters\, comrades.  “We saw each other through joy\, success\, battles\, losses\, tragedies and the tedium and labor of writing\,” Barlow writes.  She is the author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (2004) and In the Event of Women (2021)\, as well as many edited volumes.  She is the founding senior academic editor of positions: asia critique.  Jing Wang was a founding member of the journal.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/memorial-colloquium-for-professor-jing-wang/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Edward Schiappa\, “The Transgender Exigency: The Role of Media Representation”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis presentation defines the phrase “transgender exigency” as a situation marked by an urgent need; in this case\, the need to address the political and definitional challenges evinced by the need for transgender rights. The presentation provides evidence for substantial prejudice against transgender people\, as well as the dramatic increase in transgender visibility and rights in the 2010s. The collision of prejudice and visibility has led to a series of controversies that involve “regulatory definitions” imposed by institutions or legislatures\, some of which are the subject of Schiappa’s forthcoming book\, The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex & Gender in the 21st Century.  \n\n\n\n\nEdward Schiappa is the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work in rhetorical theory and media studies has been published in journals in Classics\, Psychology\, Philosophy\, English\, Law\, and Communication Studies. He is author of a number of books\, including Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaningand Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/edward-schiappa-the-transgender-exigency-the-role-of-media-representation/
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