Media in Transition 4: The Work of Stories
This fourth Media in Transition conference explores storytelling as a cultural practice, a social and political activity as well as an art form.
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MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Noir: The Shorthand Guide…
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis session will briefly look at Film Noir's roots in German Romanticism and Expressionism, its relationships with contemporary arts, and its successors in contemporary film culture.
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Literary Writing Golems — Purple Blurb Reading Series: Pablo Gervas
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPablo Gervas will describe systems developed at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid that focus on generating text that satisfies specific restrictions on form.
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From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesClara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
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Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesClara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
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A Narrative Generation Conversation
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesThree creators of poetic and imaginative systems speak about computational creativity, narrative generation, and the way systems for this sort of work are culturally generated.
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Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMiddlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
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Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality -- Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen -- to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.