Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Script as Image
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Gediminas Urbonas
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAGediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D, LA Ink, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MATheresa Rojas examines the prolific, heavily tattooed Kat Von D, who offers an aesthetic that challenges tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body”.
Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MACoco Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance.
John Jennings: “The Cipher Back to Here”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJohn Jennings is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. He is the co-author of the graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture, Vol. 1.
How Did the Computer Learn to See?
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MADid computers learn to see by modernity's most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
“Hands On” Workshop and Demo
MIT Building 4, Room 145 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MALearn how to draw the hand and why you couldn’t do it before.
Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASeeking to unravel the analytical split between the "drawn" and the "digital" in animation and media studies more broadly, Paul Roquet’s project moves back and forth between two desktops: the hard surface of the drawing table and the pixelated surface of the screen.
Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAErik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Livestream starting at 5pm.
Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMyron Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring, documentary filmmaking, and social networking in the cause of environment, social justice and indigenous people's rights.
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.
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.
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