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 Cultural Action |
CULTURAL ACTION: Frontier or Archipelagos?
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Toshiya Ueno (Wako University)
"Avant-Garde Ethnography: Hanada Kiyoteru and the Circle Movement in Japan"
Wayne Marshall (MIT)
"Clowning Around with SoundCloud"
Ian Condry (MIT)
"Virtual Idols, Social Media, and Digital Japan"
Date: Tuesday February 22, 2011
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304 (MIT)
CULTURAL ACTION DJ PARTY
with our friends at Beat Research
DJ Toshiya the Tribal (global/tribal/techno stylings)
DJ Ian Condry (Japanese hip-hop mega mix)
Wayne & Wax and DJ Flack (http://beatresearch.com)
Date: Monday February 21, 2011
Time: 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Location:
The Enormous Room
569 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
"Miku, Beyond the Character: The Cutting Edge of Miku Miku Dance Software"
Discussion and concert film screening featuring:
Ryotaro Mihara (Deputy Director, Creative Industries Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry [Japan])
Masataka-P (producer of Miku songs and videos)
Ian Condry (MIT, moderator)
The presentation includes a demonstration of a prototype projection of Miku live, and a
screening of an abridged version of Mikunopolis, Miku's live concert in Los Angeles, July 2011.
Light dinner will be served.
Afterwards, join us from 9:30-10:30pm for a Party at the Enormous Room (567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA [NOTE: Ages 18+ only] in conjunction with Beat Research (http://beatresearch.com).
Meet the Miku guests: president of Crypton, a Miku-P (producer), Japanese government rep, magazine editor and dance with Miku live . . .
Date: Monday October 17, 2011
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 4-136 (MIT)
 Miku Miku |
"Miku, Virtual Idol, as Media Platform: Transforming Media Creativity"
Keynote lecture: Hiroyuki Itoh (president and CEO of Crypton Future Entertainment)
with additional comments by:
Toshihiro Fukuoka (Editor, Tokyo Kawaii Magazine and ASCII Weekly)
Ryotaro Mihara (Deputy Director, Creative Industries, METI)
Ian Condry (Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies, MIT)
Date: Tuesday October 18, 2011
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: E51-345 (MIT)
Brainstorming session to discuss future collaborations with Crypton Future Entertainment
Come join in a discussion of possible collaborations between Crypton Future Entertainment and area students and faculty.
RSVP required to attend brainstorming session. Please contact Prof. Ian Condry at condry@mit.edu
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2011
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: TBD (MIT)
 Fandom Unbound |
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
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A lecture with Professor Mimi Ito (UC Irvine) with disscuant Ian Condry (MIT)
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan’s major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. In this talk, Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at UC Irvine, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad. “Otaku” refers to obsessive fans, often of anime, manga, video games, figurines, and other character-based media.
Date: Wednesday November 16, 2011
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: E14-633 (MIT)