David Tames
Media Tech Tonic #11: Margaret Livingstone, What art can tell us about the brain, Thursday, November 12, 2009
Update: The Location of this talk has been changed to room 406 in the Kennedy Building. The next speaker in our Fall of 2009 series will be Margaret Livingstone. The lecture will take place at MassArt on Thursday, November 12, 2009 and is free and open to the public. Please RSVP for this event (details [...]
Media Tech Tonic #10: Ramesh Raskar, Computational Photography, October 20, 2009
Our first speaker for the Fall of 2009 will be Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture Group Leader and Co-Director of the Center for Future Storytelling. The title of his presentation is “Computational Photography – The Future Starts Now”. The lecture is free and open to the public. Though revolutionary in many [...]
Media Tech Tonic #9: “Connections” and the work of the Sociable Media Group, April 15, 2009
Our next speaker in our Spring Speaker Series is Judith Donath, Director of the Sociable Media research group at the MIT Media Lab and a Faculty Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The Sociable Media Group investigates issues concerning society and identity in the technologically mediated world. Their emphasis is on design: [...]
Media Tech Tonic #8: Scott Kirsner: Inventing the Movies, March 25, 2009
Our next speaker in our Spring 2009 Speaker Series is writer and journalist Scott Kirser. AbstractArtists in every field who choose to use new tools, technologies, and methods of distribution almost inevitably encounter resistance from the “establishment.” Looking at the history of Hollywood (and viewing clips of movies made in the 19th, 20th, and 21st [...]
Media Tech Tonic #7: Kevin Brooks: Storytelling/Perpetual Design, February 25, 2009
A great mystery of academia is that design and storytelling are kept so unnaturally apart, taught in distantly separated university departments – that is if storytelling as an art form is even addressed at all. Storytelling and design are more than related, they are intertwined and complementary, reinforcing one another. This will be a storytelling [...]
Media Tech Tonic #6: Social Networking for Artists, Designers, and Creative Professionals, November 19, 2008
Our presenter this month is Diane Darling, an experienced networking consultant. She will share her insights on how creative professionals that work independently can hone and improve their networking skills. She’ll cover a range of of both inter-personal and and web-based tools that she uses herself. Everyone can network, and in today’s competitive marketplace, it [...]
Media Tech Tonic #5: Linking Virtual and Real Worlds Through Sensor Networks, October 15, 2008
A presentation and Q&A with Joseph Paradiso who will talk about his work on sensor networks and how they can augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception. Joe Paradiso is Director of the Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and also co-directs the Things That Think Consortium exploring the extreme fringe of [...]
Media Tech Tonic #4: Technology as a tool for artists and designers, September 24, 2008
For our next meeting, Mike Golembewski will discuss the potential of technology as a powerful tool for artists and designers. Too often the use of creative technologies becomes centered around the use of commercial software and hardware packages designed for workflow efficiency, rather than for free exploration. Mike will discuss how emerging technologies can become [...]
No August Meeting, Join us at Final Cut Studio Tour: Boston
There will be no August meeting. We are currently lining up speakers/demos for our fall line up, if you have suggestions, please contact us. Please join us instead at the Final Cut Studio Tour: Boston on our usual third-Wednesday of the month, August 20, 2008 at WGBH Boston (directions). There will be a Final Cut [...]