tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186751780 2009-11-16 23:26:40 -0500 Chris Boebel 21A.339J DV Lab: Documenting Science through Video and New Media (Same subject as STS.064J) 3-3-6 HASS Lec: T2-5, Lab: R2-5. An introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries about science, engineering, and related fields. Students engage in digital video production as well as social and media analysis of science documentaries. Readings drawn from social studies of science as well as from documentary film theory. Uses documentary video making as a tool to explore the worlds of science and engineering, as well as a tool for thinking analytically about media itself and the social worlds in which science is embedded. Class includes a lab component devoted to digital video production in addition to class time. Enrollment limited. Video by Chris Boebel. Footage: AMPS/MIT Libraries, Prelinger Archives, Harold E. Edgerton Collection, Debbie Douglas, MIT Museum. Audio: molecular code, http://www.myspace.com/molecularcode 78 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186336200 2008-03-05 16:49:31 -0500 MIT Video Productions <p><em>Thoughts on Fieldwork From Three Research Sites</em></p><p>Cultural Anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand - and act in - the world. But what, exactly, is it that Cultural Anthropologists do? How do they approach their research? In this short film, three members of MIT's <a href="http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/">Anthropology Department</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/faculty_staff/helmreich/index.html">Stefan Helmreich</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/faculty_staff/james/index.html">Erica James</a>, and <a href="http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/faculty_staff/paxson/index.html">Heather Paxson</a>, talk about their current work and the process of doing fieldwork.<br /></p> 495 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186171140 2008-12-20 13:33:11 -0500 MIT Museum Arthur Ganson's Machine with Wishbone sculpture. 97 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186053420 2008-01-28 00:29:45 -0500 chosetec A quick tour of some new origami pieces by brian chan <p>music by seth friedman </p><p>all origami shown here designed and folded by brian chan. </p><p>all are folded from a single uncut square of paper. for more information please google "Brian Chan" or visit: </p><p>chosetec.darkclan.net/origami </p> 179 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185875180 2007-05-16 23:15:51 -0400 pieces by REBECCA RICE DANCE <p><strong>Choreography: Rebecca Rice</strong></p><p><strong>Music: Elena Ruehr "Shimmer" 1997</strong></p><p><strong>Dancers: Jillian St. Germain with Luke Wiley, Cydney Nielsen, Michelle Machon, Julianna Nagy, Sara Knight, Ariane Georg, Franocise Voranger</strong></p><p>Filmed by Peter Gorniak </p><p>Premiere: Boston Center for the Arts; Cyclorama, March 2004</p><p>Last performed: Killian Hall, MIT; May 12, 2007</p><p><em>photo credit: Matthew Karas </em></p><p>www.rebeccaricedance.com . 978-852-3863 . rrice@mit.edu </p> 532 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185759680 2007-05-17 00:25:47 -0400 pieces by REBECCA RICE DANCE <p><strong>Choreography: Rebecca Rice</strong></p><p><strong>Music: John Harbison "Deep Dances" (2006)<br /></strong></p><p><strong>Dancers: Michelle Machon, Cydney Nielsen</strong></p><p><strong>Cellist: Emmanuel Feldman; Bass: Pascale Delache-Feldman </strong></p><p><em>Premiere: Bank of America Celebrity Series May 2006; Tsai Performance Center, Boston</em></p><p><em>Last performance: Cunningham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune St, NYC; Feb 2007 </em></p><p><em>Filmed by Chris Mehl </em></p><p><em>Photo credit: Matthew Karas </em></p> 754 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185717180 2008-10-20 23:08:26 -0400 pieces by REBECCA RICE DANCE A short film depicting sections of Rebecca Rice dance choreography "BACH DANCES" (2004). Dancers include soloist Ariane Georg with Michelle Machon, Sara Knight, Ann-Marie Cofield, Jillian St. Germain. Music by Matt Hill Video by Windswept Design/ Thomas Flanagan . tfflanagan@winsor.edu. Photo by Lois Greenfield . copyright 2006. http://www.loisgreenfield.com/dance/908/rebecca-rice-dance.html Filmed at the Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, NY, February 2007 Rebecca Rice is a choreographer, director, and teacher at MIT and the artistic director of Rebecca Rice Dance, Boston, MA. For more information please e-mail rrice@mit.edu. www.rebeccaricedance.com More work at www.youtube/rrdances and www.rebeccarice.blip.tv 205 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185679160 2008-08-07 07:09:14 -0400 some videos to not <p>AUR, the robotic desk lamp, was used in a unique human-robot stage performance. This video shows clips from the play and describes the hybrid control software used to puppeteer the robot.</p><p>Music: "The Rain Got Bounced" by <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/9813" target="_blank">TimeVibes </a></p> 165 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185618920 2009-11-05 12:02:23 -0500 MIT News Office <p>Video: Melanie Gonick; still images: Heather Paxon</p> <p>Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Anthropology, discusses what makes an artisan cheese.</p> 59 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185594900 2007-12-20 13:19:35 -0500 MIT Center for International Studies <strong>Don't Be an American Idiot<br /></strong>How does the U.S. use human rights in its foreign policy? <br />Does the occupant of the White House matter when it comes to U.S. human interests abroad? What is the role of civil society in making human rights matter?<br />Julie Mertus co-director of Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs Program, American University and award-winning author of <em>Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy</em> reflects on these questions and invites discussion on their importance in an election year. <br />MIT's Landau Building, 66-110, 25 Ames St Cambridge, MA<br />6–7:30pm 4953