Professor Tod Machover | MIT Media Lab
| Released | Due | Assignment Information |
|---|---|---|
| 9/5 | 9/12 | Bring examples of interesting festivals to show in class. |
| 9/12 | 9/19 | For next week, everyone should list:
Read LA festival article Look at program brochure from London 2012 Festival |
| 9/19 | 9/26 | Please bring a buzzer or noisemaker of your choice to this Wednesday's 2pm lecture. Buzzers will be used to interrupt the lecture
for the purpose of curtailing monologue and stimulating dialogue. Suggested technologies for producing interruptions include but
are not limited to: tap bell/desk bell, buzzer from the game Taboo, a small gong (would be fantastic). Buzzers may be of your own
design. Buzzer deployment may result in the receipt of a prize. Article on a "deeply untrendy" festival from The New York Times The impact of gaming culture on the arts from The Guardian |
| 9/26 | 10/3 | Sign up to contribute to a presentation for next week here: http://etherpad.media.mit.edu/mas825-learning-presentations |
| 10/23 | 10/24 | come to class with at least: a) one project that you would personally like to create (or be involved in creating) for the festival b) at least one idea of a larger event/activity that you'd like to see at the festival, regardless of whether you'd be directly involved in working on it |
| 10/27 | 10/31 | Please do the following: 1) Be prepared to present your personal project idea in fuller form, hopefully with some concrete representation (visual, audio, etc.). 2) Come with at least one "large" idea that you'd like to see happen at the festival, whether or not you would personally participate in making it happen. 3) Also come with ideas about how we can work together to get everyone at the Lab involved in the festival, including how we might help and curate their participation, contact faculty and students to get things going, etc. |
| Released | Description |
|---|---|
| 9/12 | We have a wiki now! Click here to go to it! |
| 9/19 | Materials from Sherrie Johnson |
| 9/26 | Presentation slides from Garth Ross |
| 10/10 | Class presentation on festival ideas |