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  • September 2018

  • Thu 13
    Illustration of Erik Loyer

    Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer

    Thursday, September 13, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Erik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.

  • October 2018

  • Thu 4
    Illustration of Daniel Bacchieri

    Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri

    Thursday, October 4, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Brazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.

  • Thu 18
    Illustration of Marisa Morán Jahn

    Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn

    Thursday, October 18, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Marisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.

  • November 2018

  • Thu 15
    Illustration of Myron Dewey

    Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey

    Thursday, November 15, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Myron Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring, documentary filmmaking, and social networking in the cause of environment, social justice and indigenous people's rights.

  • February 2019

  • Wed 20
    Caren Kaplan photo

    Civic Arts Series, “Bringing the War Home”: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances in the Era of Modern Warfare

    Wednesday, February 20, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States

    Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies.

  • March 2019

  • Wed 6
    Opeyemi Olukemi

    Civic Arts Series: Opeyemi Olukemi

    Wednesday, March 6, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States

    Throughout her career as an interactive producer, funder and public programmer, Opeyemi Opeyemi has created spaces and pipelines for interdisciplinary artists, communities, and creative teams to experiment with and create meaningful innovative content.

  • Wed 20
    Jaroslav Švelch photo

    Civic Arts Series, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”

    Wednesday, March 20, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States

    The idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.

  • April 2019

  • Wed 10
    Lauren Boyle

    Civic Arts Series: “Thumbs Type and Swipe” featuring DIS’s Lauren Boyle

    Wednesday, April 10, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States

    DIS enlists leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, philosophy, and technology, with the aim to inspire, inform and mobilize a generation around the urgent issues facing us today and tomorrow.

  • Wed 17
    Haidee Wasson illustration by Mauricio Cordero

    Civic Arts Series, “Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History”

    Wednesday, April 17, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States

    Haidee Wasson will explore the long and vibrant place of portable film devices in the history of small media, repositioning the "movie theatre" as the singular or even central figuration of film presentation and viewing.

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