Media Tech Tonic: Seminars for designers, artists, and media makers held at MassArt

This spring Media Tech Tonic brings you an all-star line-up of innovative thinkers, we hope you can join us for one or more of these talks.

Media Tech Tonic #13: High-Low Tech
Leah Buechley, Director, High-Low Tech Group, MIT Media Lab, Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. North Building, Pozen Center, MassArt.

Media Tech Tonic #14: The Hand
Frank R. Wilson, Medical Director, Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Room 406, Kennedy Building, MassArt.

Media Tech Tonic #15: Simulation and its Discontents
Sherry Turkle, Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Room 406, Kennedy Building, MassArt.

Details on each of these Media Tech Tonic talks will be sent out in subsequent posts. If someone has forwarded this information to you, please consider visiting our web site where you can subscribe to receive Media Tech Tonic announcements via e-mail or subscribe to our RSS feed. These events are hosted by the Dynamic Media Institute (DMI) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Media Tech Tonic #13: High-Low Tech is co-presented with the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). Media Tech Tonic #15: Simulation and its Discontents is the MassArt DMI Annual Lecture which is being “Cross Listed” as Media Tech Tonic #15.

After a summer hiatus, Media Tech Tonic will be back with a fall line-up. We’re currently in the process of confirming our speakers. Mark your calendar now, the dates for the Fall 2009 program are now carved in stone:

• Media Tech Tonic #10: Tuesday, October 20 (6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.): Ramesh Raskar, Leader, Camera Culture Group, Co-Director, Center for the Future of Storytelling at MIT, “Computational Photography – The Future Starts Now”
• Media Tech Tonic #11: Thursday, November 12 (6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.): Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, author of Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
• Media Tech Tonic #12: Wednesday, December 2 (6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.): Joseph Auner, Tufts University, “Losing Your Voice: Sampled Speech and Song from the Uncanny to the Unremarkable”

Stay tuned for more details, we’ve received very positive response regarding the Spring, 2009 line-up and we hope to continue bringing cutting-edge thinkers to MassArt.