Media in Transition 4: The Work of Stories
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis fourth Media in Transition conference explores storytelling as a cultural practice, a social and political activity as well as an art form.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Noir: The Shorthand Guide…
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis session will briefly look at Film Noir's roots in German Romanticism and Expressionism, its relationships with contemporary arts, and its successors in contemporary film culture.
From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAClara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAClara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMiddlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAA panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality -- Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen -- to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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