Principal Investigator
Prof. Thomas DeFrantz, Music and Theater Arts; Prof. Ian Condry, Foreign Languages & Literatures Section
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2011
Department/Lab/Center:
Music and Theater Arts
Prof.s DeFrantz and Condry plan to develop and offer an innovative, interdisciplinary course called, "Staging Media", that will explore the intersections of media, performance, and popular culture. This team-taught course will provide an innovative approach to media studies and performance through readings, analysis, and student-centered performance events. The course will answer the question; what happens when mediated narratives are explored by living, breathing people? The course will also build on the unique potentials of students and faculty at MIT, many of whom are involved the analysis and creation of video games and other mediated delivery systems.