Pivot: Mixed Reality Live Performance — Online! What happens to an transdisciplinary performance using VR as a component that was designed for an installation space when it has to move online...
Impactful Media in the Age of COVID-19: Persuasive Entertainment and What Producers Can Learn From Social Science The coronavirus pandemic has created a new purpose for media creators. But what can...
Augmented Reality for Education and Activism Glenn Cantave and Idris Brewster run Movers & Shakers NYC, a nonprofit that uses augmented reality (AR) to highlight underrepresented narratives in public spaces, classrooms,...
The Experiential Dynamics of Capturing Reality This talk will survey the creative possibilities of emerging XR technologies and how they are shaping projects produced by Sensorium, an experiential studio based in New...
Research Through Body, Art Through Inquiry What is artistic research and why does it matter? In this talk, Sohin Hwang will introduce the emerging practice of “artistic research” at the edge...
What VR teaches us about reality – and what journalists and educators should do with VR Science journalist Eva Wolfangel specializes in investigating the effects of future technologies on society by...
Sound, Learning & Democracy: Dissolve Music and Spatial Sound Experiments in Tokyo, Boston, and Berlin This talk will explore new approaches to sonic creation that focus on immersive, spatial, surround sound...
By Andrea S. Kim This article was originally featured in Indiewire. [caption id="attachment_18831" align="alignleft" width="1024"] “Spaced Out”[/caption] Since its advent, Virtual Reality (VR) has promised experiences that could detach its users from their...
By Samuel R. Mendez This article was originally featured in Indiewire. [caption id="attachment_18827" align="alignleft" width="1024"] “Anti-Gone”[/caption] You can be a mushroom carrying out bioremediation. You can be a bug sliding down an esophagus. You...
These courses are offered to MIT students and affiliates. More information can be found at the MIT subjects catalogue. CMS.100 Introduction to Media Studies (, ) Prereq: None Units: 3-3-6 Lecture: TR11-12.30 (1-135) Offers an overview of the social,...