Media Tech Tonic #19: Kevin Brooks: Storytelling for Designers
For our next meeting, Kevin Brooks, back by popular demand, will be leading a workshop for designers covering the components and process of telling stories in support of your design work. Location: MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Room: Trustees Room, 11th floor, Tower Building *** Note Room Change *** Date: Monday, November 21, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. [...]
Media Tech Tonic #18: David Rose: Enchanted Furniture
Our next speaker will be David Rose, he will discuss his latest work, designing and prototyping a line of Enchanted Furniture. Location: MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Room: Tower Building, Room 312 Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. RSVP: Not required for this event, open to the MassArt community. Presentation Abstract Furniture [...]
Media Tech Tonic #17: Ryan Evans: Information Architecture in the Age of Mobile Devices
Our next speaker will be Ryan Evans, Director of Experience Design at Corey McPherson Nash. He will speak about the unique challenges presented to information architects faced designing for web-connected mobile devices. Event Details Location: MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Room: Tower Building, Room 312 Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 [...]
Media Tech Tonic #16: Bang Wong: Visual representation of science for communication and research
Our next speaker will be Bang Wong, Creative Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He will speak about the visual representation of science for communication and research. Event Details Location: MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Room: Tower Building, Room 312 Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. (we [...]
Media Tech Tonic #15: Sherry Turkle: Simulation and Its Discontents
Our next event will be the Dynamic Media Institute Annual Lecture with Sherry Turkle, author of the recent book, Simulation and Its Discontents. She is Professor of the Social Studies of Science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AbstractIn a design seminar, the master architect Louis I. Kahn [...]
Media Tech Tonic #13: Leah Buechley: High-Low Tech
The first speaker in our Spring 2010 series will be Leah Buechley from the MIT Media Lab. AbstractLeah Buechley will discuss the work of her High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab including the LilyPad Arduino. This event is co-presented by the Dynamic Media Institute and the Studio for Interrelated Media at MassArt. Event [...]
Media Tech Tonic #12: Joseph Auner: Losing your voice: sampled speech and song from the uncanny to the unremarkable.
In Media Tech Tonic #12, Joseph Auner will consider sampled voices from the perspective of writings on ubiquitous computing and ideas of the posthuman.
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: [...]