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Comparative Media Studies

"Searching for the Origami Unicorn": The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling
Henry Jenkins
Thu Jan 15, 07-10:00pm, 6-120

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment? If so, what will it look like? Drawing on research from his new book, Comparative Media Studies Professor Henry Jenkins offers his insights into the films, the video games, the comics, and the anime as embodying some significant trends in American popular culture, including media convergence, transmedia storytelling, and globalization. Following his lecture, we will screen The Animatrix, a unique collaboration between a western media franchise and Asian animators.
Contact: Susan Stapleton, 14N-207, x3-5038, susanj@mit.edu

Keitai Cool: The Latest in Mobile Phone Lifestyles in Japan and Beyond
Yuichi Washida
Wed Jan 28, 04-05:30pm, 4-231

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Japan's cell phone (or keitai) culture is the most developed in the world today, with new uses, marketing strategies, and social relationships increasingly transforming the ways people communicate and experience their own identity. Come hear about the latest developments in Japan from an advertising executive with 12-years experience in Hakuhodo, one of Japan's largest marketing firms and a leader in lifestyle research. In this session, we examine some latest survey data regarding media environment in Japan, the US, the Netherlands, and China, and introduce a new conception of marketing called “Situational Marketing.”
Contact: Yuichi Washida, 14N-207, 253-5038, washida@mit.edu

LineStorm Animation Exploration
Pell Osborn
Tue Jan 20, Thu Jan 22, Tue Jan 27, 02-03:30pm, 56-167

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

Be a worthy contributor to Animation, the world's newest artform! We'll review some short, world-famous animations, then approach the artform the old-fashioned way, creating hand-drawn artwork on lightboxes, scanning it into the computer for looping, sound-sync and final edit. We'll use dynamic, energetic typography to illustrate one or two essential maxims (in ten words or less, yet to be chosen!), then add color and organic line to give them an unforgettable visual boost! Our finished piece, 2 to 3 minutes long, will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May. Limit: 12. Presented by Pell Osborn, award-winning animator, designer, and teacher.
Contact: Susan Stapleton, 14N-207, x3-5038, susanj@mit.edu

Poetry Lab: Hypothesis, Experiment, Outcome
Maureen N. McLane
Tue Jan 27, Thu Jan 29, 01-02:30pm, 2-146

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 25 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

What is poetry? How might we think about, find, read, listen to, or compose poetry in a multi-media landscape? This workshop opens these questions in order to pursue a communal investigation. Open to poets, performers, composers, and to anyone merely curious, this intensive seminar will feature the close listening, reading, talking, performing, and perhaps screening of poems and multiply-mediated poetic works, ranging from the "chance" compositions of John Cage to the United States of Poetry CD to 18th-century broadside ballads to forms of collective composition such as the Japanese renga. At the conclusion of our Lab, all researchers will have sketched, produced, or at least pondered a work of their own, composed singly or in groups.
Contact: Susan Stapleton, 14N-207, 253-5038, susanj@mit.edu

Storytelling and Games in the Digital Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, Sande Scoredos and Thomas Hershey, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 19 thru Fri Jan 23, 09am-05:00pm, 1-190

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2004
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: Susan Stapleton, 14N-207, x3-5038, susanj@mit.edu

The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in Film
Irving Singer
Wed Jan 28, 02-05:00pm, 1-390

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Professor Singer's presentation will include a showing of John Huston's film The Dead, based on James Joyce's story of the same title.
Contact: Irving Singer, 1-390, 253-2469, bis@mit.edu

The Thirteenth Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Tue Jan 27, 07-10:00pm, 6-120

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

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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