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Multi-Media

Admissions Wiki Party!
Mollie Burgoon, Michelle Szucs
Tue Jan 17, 04pm-12:00am, Bush Room (10-105)

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Want to tell the world about MIT? Come to the MIT Admissions wiki party! We're trying to build a comprehensive guide to MIT's life and culture. Think HTGAMIT + Nightwork + i3 + everything else in a grand anthropology of the curious uncivilization of the Institute.

Come on down to the Bush Room on Tuesday, January 17th from 4pm-12am. We will have free food and fun company! Look forward to seeing you there!

Contact Mollie Burgoon (mollieb@mit.edu) or Michelle Szucs (szucs@mit.edu) for more information.
Contact: Mollie Burgoon, Michelle Szucs
Sponsor: Admissions

Arts and Culture Multimedia in the MIT Libraries
Mark Szarko, Jolene de Verges, Peter Munstedt, Andrea Schuler
Tue Jan 17, 11am-12:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Jan-2012
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event

Want to find out how to obtain over one million tracks of streaming audio ranging from classical to jazz, popular, and contemporary world music? How about over 150,000 online music scores? Streaming video of poets reading from their work? Images so sharp you can see the shadow beneath the Mona Lisa's smile? Or panoramic views of architectural sites from around the world?

Come to this session to learn how to bring these and other cultural treasures right to your desktop through the MIT Libraries.

Please register at: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/.
Contact: Mark Szarko, 14S-144, x8-8022, szarko@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries

Sensate Workshop: Filming, Video Editing, & Interactive Modes of Presentation
Julia Yezbick Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, Tom Schilling
Fri Jan 27, 04-07:00pm, 66-144 & 66-148

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Signup by: 27-Jan-2012
Limited to 40 participants.
Single session event

Sensate, a new online journal for experiments in critical media practice, is currently recruiting new team members. Come by and see what we're all about! Suited for scholars, artists, and scientists who are interested in new modes of publication, presentation, and multimedia scholarship. Stop in anytime between 4 and 7pm. This workshop will feature live performances by Plastic Color Math Magic and demonstrations of the new interactive documentary platform, Zeega. Participants will also be able to build their own multimedia projects using Zeega.
Web: http://sensatejournal.com
Contact: Lan Angela Li, E51-070, (310) 592-3168, lanli@mit.edu
Sponsor: Lan A Li, lanli@mit.edu


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