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[Andrew Whitacre]

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Andrew Whitacre
Communications Manager
Comparative Media Studies & Center for Future Civic Media
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(617) 324-0490
awhit at mit.edu

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Dear friends ,

Please join us tomorrow for this week's CMS Colloquium, with John  
Picker speaking on "Transatlantic Acousmatics".

When: Tomorrow, Thursday 10/22, 5pm
Where: Building 4, Room 231 (map)

John Picker is Visiting Associate Professor of Literature at MIT,  
where he arrived this fall after several years as Associate Professor  
of English at Harvard. He is the author of Victorian Soundscapes and  
has ongoing interests in sound studies, media history, and the  
literature and culture of the Victorian era.

"Transatlantic Acousmatics"
Picker begins with H.G. Wells's 1897 novel The Invisible Manand goes  
on to show how, when one attends to questions of voice and sound  
technologies in several different media, the racial and ethnic  
dimensions that become audible forge invisible connections among modes  
of art that we have been taught to keep distinct. Tracing a  
transatlantic route from fiction to radio and sound film back to  
fiction, this approach offers a new way to characterize a crucial  
period of change from the late Victorian to the modern world.

The CMS Colloquium Series
Provides an intimate and informal exchange between a visiting speaker  
and CMS faculty, students, visiting scholars and friends. Each week  
during the term, we host a figure from academia, industry, or the art  
world to speak about their work and its relation to our studies. These  
sessions are free, open to the public, and serve as an excellent  
introduction to our program.

Next Colloquium
Thursday, October 29
"Cinematic Games" with game designer Richard Rouse. This lecture will  
present film clips from a number of classic movies, analyze how they  
work from a cinematic standpoint, and then suggest ways these  
techniques can be used in gameplay to create even more stimulating  
experiences for gamers, including examples from games that have  
successfully bridged the gap.

About CMS
The Comparative Media Studies program at MIT is committed to the art  
of thinking across media forms, theoretical domains, cultural  
contexts, and historical periods. Both our graduate and undergraduate  
programs encourage the bridging of theory and practice, as much  
through course work as through participation in faculty and  
independent research projects.

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On Oct 21, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Sarah C Foote wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m wondering how many weekly newsletters there are at MIT.  Print  
> and/or online.
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> If you know of any please let me know.
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> Thanks,
> Sarah Foote
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