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Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age
New technologies
are transforming the practices of storytelling, teaching,
and artistic expression. New forms of popular art and entertainment,
ranging from computer games to digital cinema, are emerging.
CMS seeks to make MIT a center for examining this shifting
media landscape, hoping to offer a new vocabulary that will
enable critics and practitioners to better understand these
new modes of expression.
CMS offers a
culturally specific account of the diverse ways in which
individuals experience stories and process information,
one which is attentive to the migration of stories and images
across various communication channels, which examines how
contemporary forms of digital media draw upon and transform
the models offered by earlier aesthetic traditions, and
which respects the active and interactive, even transforming
role, that spectators play throughout the history of media.
In both educational and commercial realms, CMS aims to understand
and exploit emerging technologies that establish new ways
to organize and access data of all sorts - stories, lists,
existing archives, instructional manuals, entertainment
systems, and consumer products.
CMS conferences
bring together critics, artists, and entrepreneurs to foster
greater public awareness and understanding of these emerging
modes of expression. Our research projects will seek to
prototype new models for interactive entertainment, new
forms of transmedia storytelling, and new ways of enhancing
education and knowledge management through the use of digital
resources.
Projects
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