Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:30:52 GMT

Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Anthropology Program, studies the people and culture behind the renaissance of artisanal cheese making in the United States.

MIT Communications Forum: News or Entertainment – Press and Modern Political Campaigns

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:30:45 GMT

Opening Remarks: Noel Jackson
Moderator: Seth Mnookin
Panelists: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark Mckinnon

Recorded April 11, 2013

Two Lips Performance

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:30:45 GMT

The live performance of "Two Lips," a piece written by Niblock and recorded in 2011 by three different guitar quartets, was played at MIT by students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute under the direction of Neil Leonard.

The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part II

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:08:38 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues the discussion of transformation and subversion in 1970s films, specifically as embodied in work of director Robert Altman. Outline - Robert Altman (1925-2006) - Career - Defining qualities: - Moral skepticism - Sympathy for the marginal - Plot vs. character - Fiction vs. "reality" - McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) - "Ruin the sacred truths" - Sound and image: a new realism? - Hero/savior—clown or fool - Love story: gal from the East - Founding myth: Presbyterian Church - The ending: slapstick murder as the town is born

The Film Experience - Lecture 4 (2007): Chaplin, Part II

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:07:58 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues discussion of Charlie Chaplin, comparing his films to those of Buster Keaton. Outline: - Keaton vs. Chaplin - Three passages - Cops (1922) - The Gold Rush (1925) - City Lights (1931) - Modern Times (1936 - Context - A culminating film - The gamin - Sound - Structure - Chaplin's complexity

The Film Experience - Lecture 15 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part I

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:07:41 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture discusses dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s and early 70s: the end of the studio era, social transformation, and television as the new consensus medium. Outline - Transformations and subversion - Directors - Actors - Style and endings - Dissenting genres - Social history - Vietnam war - Assassinations - JFK, LBJ, Nixon - Watergate - Film and Television - A new consensus medium - Two versions of MASH

The Film Experience - Lecture 19 (2007): Italian Neorealism, Part I

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:07:33 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This session introduces some characteristics of Italian neorealist cinema, especially the 'principle of multiplicity' in which aspects of the film serve multiple functions. Outline - The Opening of Bicycle Thieves - The multiplicity principle - Historical Context - WW II - Italian film under Fascism - Hollywood film - Origins - Italian, German, French - Key Features - Character vs plot, mise en scene, the contemporary world - Central Figures - Zavattini, Visconti, Rosselini, De Sica - The Neorealist Counter-plot - The beginning of Open City

Junot Díaz on 'The Colbert Report'

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:55:21 GMT

The Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT made an appearance on the Comedy Central show on March 25, 2013.

A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity and Computation

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:30:48 GMT

Courtesy of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture

Part of Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future

Dr. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.

Focusing on questions of social identity, empowerment and computation, Fox Harrell explores the emerging world of “phantasmal identities,” that moment when the meaning of social identity is complicated by its intersection with computing technologies including social networking, gaming, virtual worlds and more. Here, social identities are not addressed only through persistent issues of class, gender, sex, race, and ethnicity, but also through dynamic construction of social categories, body language, discourse, metaphorical thought, gesture, fashion, and so on. When these “real” identities meet their counterparts in the virtual world, the results are identities that are a sudden blend of cultural ideas and sensory imagination, namely the increasing development of “phantasmal identities.”

Excerpt from "Playhouse"

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:30:45 GMT

MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble

Frederick Harris, Music Director with Herb Pomeroy and the MIT Alumni Jazz Band

James O'Dell, guest conductor

Paul Earls, "Cosmology Music - Begin"

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:30:45 GMT

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Piston, Suite from the Ballet "The Incredible Flutist" (excerpt)

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:30:45 GMT

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MIT Symphony Orchestra, David Epstein, conductor

The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, "Evocations" - excerpt

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:30:45 GMT

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Mendelssohn Piano Trio - MIT Chamber Music

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:30:48 GMT

MIT students perform the Piano String Trio No. 1 in D Minor composed by Felix Mendelssohn. Bravo to violinist Alwina Liu, cellist Kamilla Tekiela, and pianist Forest Tong. And thanks to their coach Marcus Thompson.

Four movements: Allegro, Andante, Scherzo, and Finale.

MIT Chamber Society. Killian Hall, Dec. 2012.

Digital Learning at MIT

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:30:44 GMT

Recorded Jan. 30, 2013

J.Locke, Op.Cit: Invocations of Law on Snowy Streets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:05:40 GMT

Junot Díaz on 'Moyers & Company'

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:54:32 GMT

MIT Professor of Writing Junot Díaz sat down with journalist Bill Moyers on "Moyers and Company."

Krista Lynes: Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:30:10 GMT

Krista Lynes, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Department, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada

In his critical analysis of postmodern culture, Fredric Jameson asserted that the particular temporality of video, its “total flow,” bound apparatus and subject in a new kind of materialism governed by measurement, a machinic time closer to the chronometer than the cinema. This produced a “kaleidoscopic” image of distinct streams whose historicism was revealed by the very organization of videographic space and time. Professor Lynes’s talk will extend Jameson’s insights to questions of representation and cultural production under the current crises and failures of market structures in the 21st century, and the (speculative, generative) co-incidences between protest movements around the globe, focusing specifically on artworks that juxtapose chronometric and cinematic time.

Krista Lynes’ writing has been included in the journals Signs and Third Text, as well as the anthology Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (2011). Her book, Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, is forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillan’s “Global Cinema” series in 2013.

New Methods, New Markets for Independent Film (CMS Colloquium)

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:06:49 GMT

Recorded 12/6/12

MIT Glass Lab Musical Instruments

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:30:16 GMT

MIT CAST visiting artist Mark Stewart, Glass Lab faculty and students experiment with the acoustic properties of glass on Oct, 23rd, 2012.

Filmed by Erik Demaine and Nicole Teeny.
http://arts.mit.edu/cast/artist/stewart/

Heather Paxson Lectures on Interview Techniques for DLab Students

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:05:58 GMT

Assoc. Prof. Heather Paxson from Anthropology provides DLab students a background on interviewing and other qualitative research techniques.

Recorded December 7, 2012.

Junot Diaz Book Reading

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:05:35 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MIT Professor of Writing, Junot Díaz, reads from his new book This is How You Lose Her.

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:52:12 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Four

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:11:22 GMT

MIT Visualizing Cultures

Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s

Presented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate University

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part One

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:10:14 GMT

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Two

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:10:14 GMT

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Three

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:30:16 GMT

John Dower, Visualizing the Russo-Japanese War

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:30:09 GMT

MIT Visualizing Cultures

Visualizing the Russo-Japanese War
3/5/12

Presented by John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, MIT

John Dower, Professor of Japanese history, received his Ph.D. in 1972 in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University. Professor Dower's interests lie in modern Japanese history and US-Japan relations. He also has broken new ground through his scholarly use of visual materials and other expressions of popular culture in reexamining Japanese and US-Asian history. His numerous publications include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, which was honored with several prizes; Empire and Aftermath, a study of the life and times of the diplomat and later prime minister Yoshida Shigeru; and Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. He also was the executive producer of a documentary film entitled Hellfire -- A Journey from Hiroshima, which was nominated in 1988 for an Academy Award.

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:03:28 GMT

Unbound symposium: Reshaping the Book (May 4)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
Reshaping the Book

Participants: Gita Manaktala (MIT Press), Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (SocialBook)
Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies)

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Unbound symposium: The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök (May 3)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök

We started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who has striven for ten years to engineer an unkillable bacterium so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem in its genome, but also an operant machine for writing a poem in response–a poem that might, in fact, outlive terrestrial civilization. Bök was introduced by Nick Montfort, and student readers Aimee Harrison and Alvin Mwijuka shared their work.

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Unbound symposium: Unbinding the Book (May 4)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
Unbinding the Book

Participants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)
Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies)

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Engaging Neighborhoods - Berliner sehen

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:29 GMT

The contemporary video core of Berliner sehen consists of 18 hours of natural conversations with Berlin residents from different social backgrounds. Spoken in authentic German, they acquaint students with the many facets of individual lives. Together with the extensive archive of texts, images, historical audio and video, these conversations form an expansive narrative network that engages students in exploring key cultural issues from diverse points of view. The footage for Berliner sehen was filmed during Summer 1995 by the Berlin-based German documentary video artists INTERACT, who worked in close collaboration with project directors Crocker and Fendt to create a video expressly designed for the hypermedia format of this project.

Read more about Berliner sehen: http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/projects/BerlinerSehen.shtml

Stu Puts Stephen on Notice

Tue, 01 May 2012 21:23:59 GMT

Stu Schmill of the MIT Admissions Office puts Stephen Colbert on notice for trashing MIT during a recent interview with Richard Hersh on the Colbert Report.

MIT Visualizing Cultures: Visualizing the Boxer Uprising

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:30:06 GMT

Visualizing the Boxer Uprising: A Kaleidoscopic View. PowerPoint by Ellen Sebring. Presented by Peter Perdue. Part of MIT Visualizing Cultures.

Listening Faster: How Digital Humanities is Transforming Music Scholarship

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:36:26 GMT

Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition and beyond

Common Threads: The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:49:33 GMT

Part of the "Common Threads" video, produced for the MIT 150th celebration, this clip features the vital role of humanities, arts, and social sciences at MIT.

MIT's Stefan Helmreich on his book "Alien Ocean"

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:15:25 GMT

When anthropologist Stefan Helmreich decided to study scientists who chase some of the world's smallest creatures in some of the world's most forbidding places, his research took an unexpected twist. An interview with Helmreich on why the ocean can be so "alien."

View the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/alien-ocean-0205.html

School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration (2000)

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:08:10 GMT

The 50th anniversary celebration for arts and humanities programs at MIT featured several symposia and a medal ceremony held on Oct. 6-7, 2000.

Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:22:09 GMT

The bottom-line mentality that swept American life in the last few decades, often overriding considerations of principle and professionalism in business, politics, the arts, higher education, journalism and other spheres, left its mark on philanthropy and the not-for-profit world as well. Along the way the clarity of core values like justice and equality too often gave way to utilitarian approaches based on effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses.These have their place, but only if grounded in a strong moral framework. Speaker: Gara LaMarche, CEO and President, Atlantic Philanthropies Introduction: Deborah Fitzgerald, Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT

International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture, moderated by Ian Condry

Wed, 26 May 2010 20:20:20 GMT

Panelists: Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Ana Domb, Orit Kuritsky, Jing Wang

Aswin Punathambekar is an Assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He teaches and writes about media globalization, with a focus on South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
Xiaochang Li lives in New York, where she consults as something of a media and branding mercenary, specializing in the intersection of globalization, digital media, and rampant delight.
Ana Domb recently graduated from CMS and is currently working on user experience research at The Meme, a design consultancy firm based out of Cambridge.
Orit Kuritsky--a scriptwriter, content editor, and creative director--is also a graduate of the CMS master's program.
Jing Wang is a professor in Chinese Cultural Studies and the Director of New Media Action Lab. She is a CMS-affiliated faculty currently working on a project (NGO2.0) that brings together social media and nonprofit organizations in China.

Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society, moderated by Henry Jenkins

Wed, 26 May 2010 13:08:07 GMT

Panelists: Erin Reilly, Karen Schrier, Sangita Shresthova, Pilar Lacasa, and Mitch Resnick

Erin Reilly is Research Director for Project New Media Literacies, a past CMS project now housed at the University of Southern California.
Karen Schrier, a CMS grad, is the Director of Interactive Media and Technology at ESI Design and a part-time doctoral student at Columbia University in games and learning.
Sangita Shresthova is a Czech/Nepali international development specialist, filmmaker, media scholar, and dancer, who currently manages Henry Jenkins new project on participatory culture and civic engagement at USC.
Pilar Lacasa is a researcher at Alcalá University in Spain. She also works on a project for Electronic Arts in Spain about how to use commercial games in education.
Mitch Resnick is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Laboratory. He develops new technologies that engage children in creative learning experiences and is a principal investigator with the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, a CMS-partnered project.

How to Read 1,000,000 Manga Pages: Visualizing Patterns in Games, Comics, Art, Cinema, Animation, TV, and Print Media

Fri, 21 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

05/21/2010 6:45 PM e14"638Lev Manovich, Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; ; Director, Software Studies Initiative, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); Description: In his introduction, moderator Ian Condry advocates utilizing the expertise and innovation of all disciplines in order to best explore new directions in the humanities. He suggests that the challenge of discovery may ultimately be useful as theoretical exploration, which incorporates the transformative power of art as well. What would it mean, Lev Manovich asks, to "be stupid?" That is, what would it mean to take risks and start creating artifacts, interpretations and analysis that reach beyond language? To begin analyzing patterns in massive cultural data sets, Manovich uses computer"based techniques, already commonly employed in the sciences, for quantitative analysis and interactive visualization. "An image is worth thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand images. Why not have both?" he asks. Manovich sorts visual media analysis into one of two categories: 'direct visualization' and 'visualization without quantification." In the first technique, images are manipulated to produce new images, which reveal patterns. The image grid made up of thousands of Time magazine covers reveals a gradual evolution in the design and content of the magazine: black & white imagery doesn't become color immediately; there is a gradual shift. Waves of color are apparent over time, as are patterns of cultural content. Manovich demonstrates the 'visualization without quantification' technique by using the same data set (Time covers), but visualizing contrast & saturation. In contrast to 'direct visualization,' this technique "allows you to see the variability of cultural data. We get this wonderful cloud of history," he explains. Manovich introduces cultural analytics as interpreted on the HIPerSpace Wall (Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall) at Calit2, a high"capacity tool generally used for earth science research. The demonstration explores a set of more than 150 Mark Rothko paintings. "Graphs developed from features of paintings _ texture, brightness, number of shapes, saturation _ can be used to explore trends in this painter's life and work." Finally, Manovich looks at a dataset of a million pages of manga represented in a scatterplot matrix; a "manga universe." The position of each page is determined by level of contrast (on the x axis) and level of grayscale (on the y axis). Visualizations such as this provide a unique way of describing culture in all its complexity and variability. He concludes with his hope that visualization will continue to emerge as a source of new and powerful questions leading to more revealing interpretations of culture. About the Speaker(s): Born in Moscow, Lev Manovich studied fine arts and architecture before moving to New York in 1981. He began working in computer animation in 1984 at Digital Effects, one of the first commercial companies devoted to producing 3D animation for television and film and has worked with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since that time. In 2007 Manovich founded the Software Studies Initiative in order to facilitate work in the emerging field of software studies. The lab, housed within the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), is focused on projects in cultural analytics (data mining and visualization of patterns in large cultural data sets) and game studies. Manovich's best"known book is The Language of New Media, which has been widely reviewed and translated. His awards include Mellon Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship (2002"2003). Manovich as an MA degree in Experimental Psychology from NYU, (1988), and PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (1993). Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego Director, Software Studies Initiative, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) http://www.manovich.net/ Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, HyperStudio

Numbers, Words and Colors

Fri, 21 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Tools developed by Martin Wattenberg and his associate Fernanda Viégas, have changed the way people look at and use visualizations, by empowering and equipping users with the methodology needed to ask different question

Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

05/20/2010 3:00 PM Bartos theaterKurt Fendt; Johanna Drucker; Amber Frid"Jimenez; Nick Montfort, SM '98, Assistant professor of Digital Media in MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies Description: The session begins with brief introductory remarks by moderator Kurt Fendt. He points out the need for new tools that will examine data in meaningful ways through aspects of interpretation and visualization. Dean Deborah Fitzgerald emphasizes the importance of support for digital humanities and visualization interpretation as supplemental to textual analysis, and the creation of new forms of scholarly and cultural communication; Peter Donaldson offers a concise welcome to participants. It is in sharp contrast to a period of enlightenment and empirical science that a re"humanization of digital activities may now take place, says Johanna Drucker. Humanistic approaches are the motif against which she frames her assertion that "interpretation" introduces an epistemological shift-which she identifies by the rubric "from data to capta"-or data that is taken rather than data which is given. Noting that visualization techniques originally developed for empirical sciences and quantitative analytics lack the sophistication needed by humanists, Drucker emphasizes that humanists must remember their core orientation and approach interpretation not strictly as visualization. Simply introducing more complicated statistical models doesn't solve the problem, although adding some degree of humanistic inquiry does demonstrate that data is "a composite rather than a singularity." But Drucker identifies the deeper and more serious problem as "not simply a matter of modeling humanistic statistics but shifting the epistemological ground." She sees a serious and substantial role for the humanities "that is cultural as well as intellectual in pushing back against the dominant models of a kind of quantitative and empirical approach." Drucker advocates a shift from "knowledge" to "knowing" by questioning certain fundamental assumptions about how we know what we know. She and her colleagues have explored this problem by studying temporality and spatiality via the history of time and its representations -- timelines. After searching in vain for means to represent time as non"homogenous -- probabilistic, potential"laden and discontinuous _ she introduced point of view into her models as a way of expressing the subjectivity of temporality _ distinctions in traditional assumptions about time. Creating graphical representations of humanistic data _ that is, data inflected with affect _ is not data, it's 'capta.' "Capta," she explains, "suggests that all quantification, parameterization, representation is always about an experiential, co"dependent relationship of emergent phenomena. The phenomena don't exist outside of the cognitive perception and the perception is intervening in and influenced by the phenomena." Ultimately, Drucker suggests, the idea of humanistic experience should be re"centered at the core of the interpretive model. "One of the things we must do," she explains, "is to replace perspective, the human scale, the point of view, the situatedness of human experience within this social and cultural order and it's representation in visual and graphical form." Kurt Fendt and respondents Amber Frid"Jimenez and Nick Monfort pose questions of their own about the potential for the systemization of visual systems, the difficulty of approaching large, communal data sets, and distinctions between exploration and presentation in the humanities. Questions from the audience focus on the desirability of certainty within a humanistic construct, and emerging ways in which to represent emergent phenomena thru visualization. Drucker favors the dynamic modeling techniques used in meteorology, because of its potential for layered complexity. About the Speaker(s): Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA >http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/members/drucker Johanna Drucker is among the core scholars who rethink what it means to do humanities research in digital environments. Her research and teaching focus on electronics scholarship, digital aesthetics and visual information design. In 2008"09 she was Digital Humanities Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center where she worked on a project titled "Diagramming Interpretation." She was one of the co"founders of the Speculative Computing Lab at the University of Virginia, a research group dedicated to exploring experimental projects in digital humanities. She has published extensively on the history of written forms, typography, design, and visual poetics. She is the author of SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing, (University of Chicago Press, 2009), as well as many other books. In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and an experimental visual poet. Drucker earned her Ph.D., at the University of California, Berkeley (1986). Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, HyperStudio

Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for Scholars in the Humanities, Arts, and Beyond

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

05/20/2010 6:00 PM Morss Hall Walker Memorial Ben Shneiderman, University of MarylandDescription: A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman's work over the past two decades. He advocates the discovery of temporal patterns, relationships and clusters via an empowering user experience which enables discovery at a customizable pace and depth. Shneiderman makes a clear distinction between high"resolution presentation (ala Edward Tufte) and discovery, which he defines as "the dynamics of interaction." Noting that different patterns will be interesting to different people, he suggests that the capacity to quickly test out a viewpoint, to ask a large number of questions in a short amount of timeis an "enriching gift." Shneiderman cites several different projects which utilize various methodologies of user exploration and empowerment, principles applicable to the scientific and technical world, as well as the humanities and arts. The best known of these is Spotfire, a commercial application of visual data mining and information visualization. (User control _ via dynamic query sliders, for example " directs the rapid updating of a display containing color" and size"coded points.) He describes other methodologies _ including treemaps (space"constrained visualizations of hierarchical structures), TimeSearcher (a visual analysis tool for time series data), FeatureLens (interactive visualization of text patterns) and Social Action (for social network data, now incorporated into NodeXL) _ as capable of giving "answers to questions you didn't know you had." Questions from the audience address the challenges of visualizing uncertainty and the notion of a "user" as a participant whose contributions and engagement actually reshape the very conditions of the system. Shneiderman emphasizes a desire to not only empower users but to alert them to potential hazards of interpretation and make them more cautious users, readers and/or participants. Additionally, Shneiderman encourages an information visualization approach through which selection strategies allow "treasures to rise to the surface" from vast databases. Noting ongoing constraints of time and budget, he emphasizes the processes of categorization and prioritization, and supports courage of ownership for decisions made. About the Speaker(s): A pioneer of information visualization, human"computer interaction, and user interface design, Ben Shneiderman'swork has focused on database design, human factors in computer systems and information design, and technology"mediated social participation. Concepts of information design associated with him include dynamic queries and starfield display (research that led to the development of Spotfire, the user"driven analytical tool), HyperTIES, the treemap concept, the Lifelines project, PatternFinder, TimeSearcher, the Hierarchical Clustering Explorer, and universal usability, among many others. His book, Designing the User Interface: Strategies of Effective Human"Computer Interaction, has appeared in numerous editions and had a profound impact as an educational and professional text. Founding Director (1983"2000) of the Human"Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCiL) at the University of Maryland, Shneiderman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received the ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime Achievement Award. He earned his PHD at SUNY at Stony Brook in 1973. Professor, Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland >http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, HyperStudio

Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education, moderated by William Uricchio

Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:16 GMT

The first panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium.

Pete Donaldson is a Professor in the MIT Literature section, which he headed from 1990 until 2005.
Kurt Fendt is Research Director in Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program and directs the HyperStudio, a CMS research project.
Scot Osterweil leads several Education Arcade projects promoting learning in math, literacy, history, science and foreign language.
Rekha Murthy, CMS '05, works at the intersection of public radio and digital media, currently overseeing distribution and content strategy initiatives for PRX, an online distributor of audio programs to public radio networks, stations, and audio platforms including mobile, internet, and satellite radio.
Matthew Weise, CMS '04, is Lead Game Designer at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.

Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:54:00 GMT

William Uricchio, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:53:03 GMT

Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

04/23/2010 10:00 AM e14"633William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies; ; Peter Donaldson, Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of the Literature Faculty, MIT. Director, Shakespeare Interactive Archive; Kurt Fendt; Scot Osterweil; Rehka Murthy; Matt Weise, Singapore"MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Producer; Description: In the first of four panels celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT, panelists reflect on the wide range of projects and media studies offspring that have emerged from this innovative program. Major CMS themes include the development of community, creation of a deeper understanding of collaboration, working across disciplines, participatory culture, and collective intelligence. Panelists discuss the MIT approach to applied humanities, and share insights on education, game design, public media and visual information. William Uricchio moderates. Scot Osterweil brings his background as a theatre major to the effort of game design, citing the need to engage the user, not just create games that are based on reciting facts-just as an actor has to engage in audience in something deeper than lines of a script. Kurt Fendt's background teaching German language and literature, combined with work with many German artists has informed his current approach to working in digital media. He is concerned with how to engage students in the process of actively creating media, not just using it. Peter Donaldson cites Shakespeare's works as multi format productions whose performances can travel across cultures and time as well as across media. Rekha Murthy finds that her real life experience coupled with her CMS education has enabled her to have a broader understanding of the world, and channel it into her work in public radio in new ways. As public broadcasting morphs into public media, significant identity questions emerge that require deeper thinking to sort out the huge challenges in her field. Today she values the contextualization and opportunities for reflection that CMS has afforded. Matthew Weise who attended film school before CMS admits to always struggling with the notion of the humanities. He comes to terms with a definition that "humanities are things that make me feel more human" and provide inspiration to want to apply his full self to the task at hand. He finds himself happily enriched in ways he doesn't fully understand. About the Speaker(s): Kurt Fendt is Director of HyperStudio, MIT's Center for Digital Humanities, which explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of research and education. He is Research Director in the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program (CMS) and teaches a range of upper"level courses in the German Studies Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures. Fendt has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Cologne, the Technical University of Aachen (both Germany), and the University of Klagenfurt, Austria; in 2001 he was Visiting Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute in Sankt Augustin, Germany. He is co"Principal Investigator of the d'Arbeloff"funded Metamedia project, co"Director of Berliner sehen, a collaborative hypermedia learning environment for German Studies, the on"line collaboration space for educators "Berliner sehen Exchange", and co"author of the French interactive narrative "A la rencontre de Philippe" (CD"ROM version). Since 2005, he has been organizing the MIT Short Film Festival. Before coming to MIT in 1993, Fendt was Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where he established the Media Learning Center for the Humanities and earned his Ph.D. in modern German literature with a thesis on hypertext and text theory in 1993 after having completed his MA at the Ludwig"Maximilians"University in Munich, Germany. Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Comparative Media Studies

Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Five former CMS students discuss their personal experiences within the program and the impact it has had on their understanding, interpretation and implementation of creativity in the digital age.

Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

04/23/2010 2:30 PM e14"633Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Erin Reilly, Research Director, New Media Literacies Project, USC; Sangita Shresthova, Manager, Part. culture project, USC; Pilar Lacasa, Professor of Psych and Education, Univ. de Alcala; Mitchel Resnick, SM '88, PhD '92, Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences; LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research; Karen Schrier, Director of Interactive Media and Technology at ESI Design Description: Even back in the early days of Comparative Media Studies (CMS), when Henry Jenkins and colleagues met in the basement of the Media Lab, there was much discussion of how new media might shape learning and spur novel forms of expression and community engagement. Over the years, as Jenkins and these panelists attest, CMS, with its extended family of collaborators and visiting scholars, has both refined and broadened its study of the impact of new technologies on education, culture and politics. Mitchel Resnick of the Media Lab has frequently made common cause with partners at CMS, finding them "kindred spirits" in "thinking about technologies as ways of empowering people." Resnick develops tech tools to unleash creative expression in children, and he argues for the central role of play in learning experiences. Exploration and experimentation, "the testing of boundaries," should be integrated into school curricula, he believes, so children can "figure out what questions they want to ask." Resnick praises CMS for taking ideas from the media world, like remixing and online sharing, to help people "rethink ideas about learning." Some CMS graduates are designing pathbreaking educational material for schools and other educational venues.Karen Schrier developed an interactive game around the Boston Massacre intended to create a "paradigm shift in teaching history." The game assigns each player a unique perspective from which to interpret events of the time. The idea, she says, is to reconstruct history. Ultimately, Schrier hopes "new literacies" such as critical and ethical thinking, and reinterpretation, will be incorporated into school coursework. In Spain, Pilar Lacasa applies the insights she has distilled from research at CMS to projects with software and game companies, hoping to transform her nation's schools. At MIT, she learned the value of playing games, and using them in education to create learners who truly participate. She views electronic games as important tools for teachers, and she celebrates the rise of YouTube for its contribution to media production and participatory culture in young people. "Teachers need to realize they are hunters and gatherers," says Erin Reilly, a former CMS lecturer and current new media literacy researcher. Like media makers, teachers cook up lesson plans with peers, "coopting from others, and adapting for their own discipline and learning objectives." She is working with teachers in large school systems on strategy guides, derived from collaborative brainstorming sessions. She envisions teachers from different communities using technology to share and build on each other's stories and experiences, "pooling knowledge toward a common goal. As a child of two cultures, CMS offered "a place where there were no borders" to Sangita Shresthova. A dancer"researcher, Shresthova realized at MIT that stories can be told across several media and that communities can come together and even ease mutual suspicions during live performances -- such as a Bollywood dance event she staged in Prague with remixed film and song. Spectators can become participants, she learned, and creating communities, whether through events like these, or through online fan websites, allows people to think differently and "take action on other issues." A growing emphasis at CMS, says Henry Jenkins has been the connection between participatory experiences, education and civic engagement. He notes that technology and new media do not bring about participatory culture so much as support deeply engrained participatory practices and enable new forms of engagement. "The urge to participate is greater than that," he concludes. About the Speaker(s): Henry Jenkins joined USC from MIT, where he was Peter de Florez Professor in the Humanities. He directed MIT's Comparative Media Studies graduate degree program from 1993"2009, setting an innovative research agenda during a time of fundamental change in communication, journalism and entertainment. As one of the first media scholars to chart the changing role of the audience in an environment of increasingly pervasive digital content, Jenkins has been at the forefront of understanding the effects of participatory media on society, politics and culture. His research gives key insights to the success of social"networking Web sites, networked computer games, online fan communities and other advocacy organizations, and emerging news media outlets. Jenkins is recognized as a leading thinker in the effort to redefine the role of journalism in the digital age. Through parallels drawn between the consumption of pop culture and the processing of news information, he and his fellow researchers have identified new methods to encourage citizen engagement. Jenkins launched the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT to further explore these parallels. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture. His most recent book is Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. Jenkins has a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from Georgia State University, a M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and a PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin"Madison. Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Comparative Media Studies

MIT Commnuications Forum: Jenkins' Farewell — Reflections on a Career at MIT

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

04/22/2010
5:00 PM
Bartos theater

Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies

Description: In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT's culture, his new life at USC, and the state of digital cultures, new media and collective intelligence.

Jenkins shares that complex feeling of loving and hating MIT, at the same time and often within the course of one day. Providing his own insights into MIT's culture and the legacy of IHTFP, he looks back on a long career and the evolution of film and media studies into the Comparative Media Studies program we know today. He attributes his longevity at MIT to the inspiration provided by the students, and makes a strong case for the value of humanities education, while questions remain for some on how the humanities fit into an MIT education.

The reflection ends with Jenkins reading The Cat in the Hat-his annual salute to Dr. Seuss. This tradition, began 18 years ago, became a staple of IAP. Jenkins says he is reminded "how much it characterizes to me that creativity and imagination, which is so vital at MIT, and that we turn our back on at our own peril."

Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Communications Forum (From the MIT World collection)

J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:24:26 GMT

This year's Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently entered the motion picture arena, writing the period drama Changeling for Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie, adapting such books as Lensman for Ron Howard, World War Z for Brad Pitt's company, and They Marched Into Sunlight for Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass, as well as reviving Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. and selling two new original movies, The Flickering Light and Proving Ground to Universal and Tom Cruise's United Artists, respectively. He has also begun work on Last Words, a pilot for a new TV series for the TNT network.

Previously known best for his role as the creator of the cult science fiction series Babylon 5 and its various spin-off films and series. Straczynski wrote 92 out of the 110 Babylon 5 episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through all of the third and fourth seasons, and all but one episode of the fifth season.

His early television writing career spans from work on He-Man, She-Ra, and The Real Ghostbusters through to The New Twilight Zone and Murder She Wrote. He followed up Babylon 5 with the science fiction series Jeremiah.

Straczysnki also enjoys continued success as a comic book writer, working on established superhero franchises, such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Supreme Power and Thor, as well as his own original series, such as Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, The Twelve, and The Book of Lost Souls. He is also a journalist, publishing over 500 articles in such periodicals as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Writer's Digest Magazine, and TIME Inc.

He was one of the first television producers to actively engage his fan community online and has consistently explored the interface between digital media and other storytelling platforms.

Neil Gaiman, part 2

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:29:11 GMT

Bestselling author, screenwriter and comics luminary Neil Gaiman, interviewed by Henry Jenkins as part of the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture in 2008.

The lecture was hosted by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, and was founded to honor the memory of longtime DC Comics editor Julius "Julie" Schwartz, whose contributions to our culture include co-founding the first science fiction fanzine in 1932, the first science fiction literary agency in 1934, and the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939.

Schwartz went on to launch a career in comics that would last for well over 42 years, during which time he helped launch the Silver Age of Comics, introduced the idea of parallel universes, and had a hand in the reinvention of such characters as Batman, Superman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and the Atom.

Watch the first part of the interview at http://mitne.ws/UqGkTB

An interview with Neil Gaiman

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:35:34 GMT

The bestselling author, screenwriter and comics luminary was interviewed by Henry Jenkins as part of the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture in 2008.

What's it like to be a grad student at MIT's HyperStudio?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:27:20 GMT

MIT graduate student Whitney Trettien describes what it's like to be a Research Assistant at MIT's HyperStudio for Digital Humanities.

MIThBusters

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:06:49 GMT

Dispelling stereotypes about MIT. A film by Kim Baldauf '11, Nathaniel Salazar '11, and Helen You '10. As featured on boston.com.

The Future of Digital Commons

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:00:00 GMT

Nancy Kranich says the debate boils down to this: "Is information a public good or a commodity?" The more profit to be made, the higher the tension. Kranich envisions an "information society of the 21st century," where the ruling metaphor is the commons: information is neither public nor private but something shared. Intellectual assets are not given away but managed "to sustain communities of interest," and to foster free expression, creativity, innovation and democracy. Ideas, unlike popsicles, do not disappear once they are consumed, Ann Wolpert notes. And the resources of the academic world are intended to be used repeatedly -- exchanged and enhanced. Wolpert finds particularly threatening the notion of extending copyright law to the work of academics. Ideas should not "be stuffed in the same box as Mickey Mouse," she says. The internet has fundamentally changed the flow of information, and while it has encouraged a greater degree of "social sharing," it is now threatened by market forces, which insist on controlling and realizing profit from ideas. Asserts Wolpert, "Neither the academy nor society can tolerate tight control over movement of information. For knowledge to advance, production and distribution systems can and should occur outside the tightly controlled, capital intensive publishing system." Steven Pinker admits that "as both a consumer and producer of information," he has not resolved the conflicting demands of distributing his research freely, and making a living from it. "There is the question of how many ' books would I write if I didn't get a check in the mail from the publisher every once in while." He warns against designing and promoting an information commons that relies exclusively on generosity, openness and inclusiveness -- human nature being what it is. However, Pinker finds hope in such models as Apple's iTunes, with its micropayments to download music, and Wikipedia the online, participatory encyclopedia where people engage in uncompensated activity for the prestige of making "accurate and useful entries" in a shared online resource. Participants: Nancy Kranich, Former President, American Library Association; Guest Lecturer; Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries; Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology; Harvard University Event date: 09/22/2005 Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Communications Forum

Forced Labor: The World Debate

Sat, 14 May 2005 04:00:00 GMT

Zeinab Badawi, Presenter, The World, BBC Four; Jean-Robert Cadet, Author, Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American; Steven Law, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor; Kevin Bales, Director, Free the Slaves, Inc.; Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey Roehampton, in London; Jagdish Bhagwati, PhD '67, University Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University; Roger Plant, Head of the Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor, International Labor Organization Jean-Robert C_det lost his childhood, when at the age of four, he became a slave to a rich Port-au-Prince family. After years of washing floors, fetching water, and sleeping under the kitchen table, he found freedom when his owners moved to the U.S., and kicked him out. C_det, who says the "biggest part was the emotional detachment," wonders today why the U.S., Haiti's biggest foreign donor, doesn't "link foreign aid to the elimination of slavery." Kevin Bales describes hereditary forms of slavery in the developing world where generations of a family "are put up as collateral against a loan" that they're never able to pay back. But, he points out, the U.S. has its own problems: "We have found young women from Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, who are called by the people who control them 'the creature, the animal,' and used for years, and sexually abused, as domestic servants in Washington, D.C. suburbs. 'We found in 90 U.S. cities people caught up in forced slavery." Stephen Law describes how U.S. Labor Department investigators looking into simple violations of wage laws find "intimidation, coercion and secrecy" surrounding child labor and other illegal exploitation. What's worse, he says, "cultural reinforcement locks people into this lifestyle," a kind of brainwashing that inhibits people from escaping their enslavement. Roger Plant says that of the 12 million forced laborers globally, most are women and children. He corrects the assumption that "forced labor is something imposed by states. Today four-fifths of all forced labor is imposed by private agents '.People exploiting bonded labor make significant profits." Jagdish Bhagwati offers some hope: "Social institutions themselves can change as a result of economic and other incentives. ' (Forced laborers) have to be able to walk away and get freedom, find new jobs, which is where economic prosperity abetted by globalization matters."

Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Center for International Studies Event date: 05/14/2005

Narratives of Science

Sat, 07 May 2005 04:00:00 GMT

Robert Kanigel poses the central question of this panel: "The storytelling express is leaving the station. Do we want to jump aboard, or under some circumstances, stay where we are?"

Why Are Stories Violent?

Sat, 07 May 2005 04:00:00 GMT

You wouldn't ordinarily expect to find Euripides, Snow White, Bruno Bettelheim, and Rambo discussed at the same event. But they share the limelight in this session.

Migratory Narratives: Why Some Stories Replicate Across Media, Cultures, Historical Eras

Fri, 06 May 2005 04:00:00 GMT

True stories and their fictional spin-offs — especially bloody ones — occupy an enduring spot in western culture.

New Roles for Established Media

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:00:00 GMT

Stephen W. van Evera, Professor of Political Science; Amy Mitchell, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism; Alex Jones, Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy , Kennedy School of Government; Mark Jurkowitz, Media Writer, The Boston Globe These panelists purvey grim news about the media's 2004 election coverage.

Amy Mitchell offers results of a study showing that the vast majority of reporting in the 2004 election concerned "inside politics" such as candidates' performance and tactics; a measly 4% of debate coverage explained policy. As network news withdraws from conventions, expect to see cable TV's "live, extemporaneous" and often slip-shod approach to politics assume greater dominance. From Alex Jones, we learn that voters in the most recent election had so committed themselves to a candidate that no reporting on issues could move them, even if the facts stood squarely against their stated reasons for supporting the candidate. Says Jones, "for many people, voting is an emotional issue and what they gather from the media are impressions and not facts. So what are they seeing and reading?" Unfortunately, a lot of misinformation and opinion from the "blogosphere," Jones believes. Cable TV is so driven by its need to fill 24 hours of airtime that it jumps on every sensational internet posting. It's a "cutthroat, competitive environment of fragmented audiences, so invest what you have with as much snap, crackle and pop and spend as little as possible on reporting." Mark Jurkowitz says journalism is "dominated by 'he said, she said coverage'" and is "no longer about getting the truth or testing claims." He fears a trend where the public loses confidence in press objectivity and "no longer puts up with a messenger it doesn't agree with on potent issues." Jurkowitz predicts a partisan divide of news outlets as stark as the schism between red and blue states. Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Communications Forum Event date: 10/28/2004

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