Content tagged "photography"
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Internet Killed the Michelin Star: The Motives of Narrative and Style in Food Text Creation on Social Media
While the underlying purpose of the construction and consumption of food texts remain the same from analog to digital form, the authority of food culture and its complimentary narrative control has shifted as a result of the convergence of food texts and digital media affordances.
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Podcast, Kimberly Juanita Brown: “Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography”
Kimberly Juanita Brown focuses on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers’ interpretation of the event.
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MIT Shares New Aerial Drone Videos of Campus
The videos, produced by Drone Pros, capture views of the MIT Dome, Stata Center, west campus, and more.
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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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Thomas Elsaesser: “Media Archaeology as Symptom”
Is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or a (valuable) symptom also of changes in our ideas of history, causality and contingency?
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In Medias Res, Fall 2014
Featuring the photography of B.D. Colen, introductions to Coco Fusco and Marjorie Liu, the awesomeness of @mitblogs_ebooks, and alumni updates.
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Vicki Mayer: “Where ‘Home’ Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space”
Vicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
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Teaching, and exploring, photography in Liberia
“Rather than suffer in Boston’s cold, I spent the better part of two January weeks in Liberia, teaching writing and photography and photographing urban and rural schools.”
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Podcast: David Kelley, “The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window”
David Kelley primarily works with digital video installation and photography, with recent projects involving performance and sculpture.
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The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
The Family of Man became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
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Podcast: Christoph Lindner, “Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization”
Christoph Lindner on seeing Amsterdam through the lens of New York photographers enabled new and surprising perspectives on four key aspects of the city.
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Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
Christoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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Podcast: Hanna Rose Shell, “How Not to Be Seen”
A talk about camouflage framed by the question of “how not to be seen”–in film, on film, as film.
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How Not to Be Seen
Hannah Rose Shell screens and discusses her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the phenomenology of camouflage.
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CMS student Eric Schmiedl earns accolade for image
An image taken by Eric Schmiedl, a senior in the Comparative Media Studies program, will be included as part of a web gallery for American Photography 25, one of the most prestigious photo competitions in the country.
