"Comics 2003 -- A Fast-Changing Landscape"
Scott McCloud
Wed Jan 15, 07-09:00pm, 10-250
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Cartoonist Scott McCloud discusses recent developments in comics and graphic novels and the recently accelerated evolution of comics on the Web.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207a, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
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AniJam
Pell Osborn
Tue Jan 21, Thu Jan 23, Tue Jan 28, 01-03:00pm, 56-167
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Be an animator! Rediscover the magic and pep of this delightfully elastic medium. Work with award-winning animator and designer Pell Osborn ("Piano-Forte", "Silent E", "The Creation") to build a free-for-all AniJam, an Animation Jamboree, in which each participant contributes a freeform sequence to our punchy final two-minute project. We'll use traditional materials -- each animator on a lightbox -- then capture our art to the computer for final edit and sync to a pre-recorded track. If all works out, our magnum opus screens at the MIT Media Spectacle this spring.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207A, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
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Comics: Theory and Practice
Scott McCloud
Mon Jan 13 thru Fri Jan 17, 09am-04:00pm, 1-135
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Dec-2002
Limited to 25 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
A visual lecture and intensive hands-on workshop in the art of making comics. Strong emphasis will be given to developing clarity, storytelling skills and personal expression. Students will learn and apply a variety of techniques for presenting narratives through comics, as well as a wide arsenal of skills applicable to any form of graphic communication. The course culminates in the creation of original comics short features, written and drawn by each student.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
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Documentary Photography
B.D. Colen
Mon Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, 07-10:00pm, 14-0637
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 06-Jan-2003
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Solid background in the fundamentals of photography
Documentary Photography will offer a brief introduction to the work of the great documentary photographers, and then will offer each of 12 students a chance to produce a documentary photo project. This IAP activity will include the basics of the 21W.749 class ("Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion"), and those interested should visit the class website http://web.mit.edu/21W.749.www to see the work produced by students last semester.
Contact: B.D. Colen, 14N-229c, x3-4921, bdcolen@mit.edu
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Fansubbing
Sean Leonard, Andrew Deschere
Mon Jan 27 thru Fri Jan 31, 01-04:00pm, 1-150
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Learn fansubbing--the process of adding subtitles to Japanese animation. Topics covered: history and development of American fansubbing, tools and methodology, global culture and media theories, legal and ethical debates. Participants will work in teams ("fansub groups") to subtitle a short animation, working on translation, timing, typesetting, encoding, and other development tasks. Previous exposure to Japanese language is recommended but not required. The fansubbing tools that we will be using are built for the Win32 platform. Although not required, a laptop that runs Windows applications is highly recommended for practice in class.
Contact: Andrew Deschere, Sean Leonard, deschere@mit.edu, seantek@MIT.EDU
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Storytelling and Games in the Digital Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, Sande Scoredos and Thomas Hershey, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Kurt Squire and Alex Chisholm
Mon Jan 20 thru Fri Jan 24, 09am-05:00pm, 56-114
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2003
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Student teams develop story concepts for various media, including motion picture visual effects and computer games. Sponsored by MIT Comparative Media Studies (CMS) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI), this non-technical activity focuses on the theoretical, historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic elements of interactive narrative and game structures. Morning lectures explore linear and non-linear storytelling across media, audio-visual elements, game theory, and techniques to increase the depth of interactive console games and enhance storytelling. Afternoons run as workshops where participants collaborate in teams to design interactive story scenarios to be presented during a final session on Friday afternoon.
Contact: Alex Chisholm, 14N-207, x3-6447, alex@mit.edu
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The Cinematic Philosophy of Jean Renoir, with Illustrations
Irving Singer
Fri Jan 17, 02-04:00pm, 1-390
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
More than once, Orson Welles called Jean Renoir "the greatest of all directors." Renoir is less well known for his theoretical writings about his work. In this lecture Professor Singer explores Renoir's carefully formulated ideas about the meanings that underlie his varied techniques and about the nature of creativity in general. Film clips from Renoir's movies will contribute to this investigation.
Contact: Irving Singer, E39-351, x3-2649, bis@mit.edu
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The Twelfth Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Tue Jan 28, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, "5000 Fingers of Dr. T." An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Contact: Henry Jenkins, 14N-205, x3-3068, henry3@mit.edu
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The Web as an Idea
David Weinberger
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
In these discussions, we will try to understand the Web as more than a technology and more than a social phenomenon. What effect is it having on the core ideas in our culture? By analogy, if we wanted to understand
democracy, we would look at what it means for foundational ideas such as liberty, authority, citizenship, equality, etc. Similarly, we will look at the Web's effect on ideas such as individuality, knowledge, space, and even, yes, reality. Individual sessions are listed below. The format will be mixed lecture and seminar.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207A, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
Who Is On Line: Individuality, Sociality, and the Self
David Weinberger
Tue Jan 7, 07-09:00pm, 1-390
The Medium Is the Morality: The Moral Implications of the Web's Architecture
David Weinberger
Tue Jan 14, 07-09:00pm, 1-390
Our World: The Reality of Connections
David Weinberger
Tue Jan 21, 07-09:00pm, 1-390
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