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 #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 #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 [...]