Content tagged "computation"
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Posted by Elizabeth Borneman S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2020
Podcast: Matthew Berland, “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
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Event: Thursday, February 13, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Matthew Berland, “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre, Nick Montfort and Elizabeth Borneman
Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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Event: Thursday, September 26, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Algorithmic Music: An Experience Composing with WolframTones
Andrew Whitacre on how to use algorithmic music generation in WolframTones as the inspiration for a full, human-sounding composition.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Nick Montfort
Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn’t just for the tech-inclined — programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers…and questions…they’ve never seen before.
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Posted by Karen Schrier S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2005
Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Schrier argues that knowledge games are potentially powerful because of their ability to motivate a crowd of problem solvers within a dynamic system while also tapping into the innovative data processing and computational abilities of games.
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Event: Thursday, October 13, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
How Did the Computer Learn to See?
Did computers learn to see by modernity’s most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
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Posted by Andy Kelleher Stuhl S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2016
Topics: computation, mediational music, music, softwareListening in Code: Process and Politics in Interactive Musical Works
Illuminating the distinct claims that sound and software hold on one another as creative domains, open mediational music invites listeners to rehearse a conscientious engagement with the sites and conditions of computationally mediated cultural encounter.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Liam Andrew
Podcast: Ryan Cordell, “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, speaks about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
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Event: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What’s It All About?
Let’s talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who’s doing what where in DH at MIT?
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Event: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Beginning Exploratory Programming
How to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture.
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Posted by Sarah Schwartz S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Summary, Podcast, Video: “Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media”
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT’s Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
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Event: Thursday, December 4, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT’s Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
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Posted by Jason Lipshin S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Topics: computation, HCI, human computer interaction, media studies, network design, ubicomp, ubiquitous computingNetwork Design: A Theory of Scale for Ubiquitous Computing
The operation of ubiquitous computing networks at three scales: the body scale, the architectural scale and the urban scale.