Metamedia is featured on the front page of the
May/June 2004 IS&T Newsletter. Summer 2004
Metamedia translates into classroom innovation. Read about three new curriculum
projects: Cultura, Balanchine Dance Archive, and
American Authors Project. Go
to the article...
Metamedia is profiled in the
Comparative Media Studies Newsletter, In Media Res. Spring 2004
Read accounts of different facets
of the Metamedia project from several professors and
students, including Prof. Peter Donaldson, Wynn Kelly,
Gilberte Furstenberg and graduate students Moneta Ho,
Andrea McCarty and Rekha Murthy. Go
to the article...
Comparative Media Studies and
Metamedia are profiled in this fall's issue of Soundings.
November 2003
This article highlights the Comparative
Media Studies (CMS) program, which is the first interdisciplinary
major offered at MIT. CMS sponsors several hands-on
research projects, including Metamedia. Go
to the article...
Metamedia is profiled in this
month's issue of the Technology Review. November 2003
The magazine article features several
of our projects, as well as interviews with the faculty
working on each project. This includes the foreign language
project Berliner Sehen with Ellen Crocker and Kurt Fendt,
the literature projects Shakespeare Electronic Archive
with Peter Donaldson and American Authors with Wyn Kelley,
and the Balanchine Dance Archive with Thomas DeFrantz
of music and theater arts. Go
to the article...
Version 1.3 of the Metamedia
Framework has launched!
October 2003
Thanks to all the hardwork of the Metamedia
team members, version 1.3 has launched and is now actively
in use. The new features include a new interface and expanded
tools and functionality.
The Cultura Exchange has launched
within the Metamedia Framework. October 2003
The Cultura forums foster cultural
exchange and discussion between French students at MIT
and their peers studying English in France.
The new Metamedia Web site
launches. September 2003
The new site, which features
updated information about Metamedia research and projects,
was designed by Comparative Media Studies graduate student,
Moneta Ho 04.
New School Year Begins at MIT September 2003
The new school year is
bringing several exciting new projects and faces to the
Metamedia project. These include the Oscar Wilde Archive
and the Cultura Exchange Forums.
New Project - Balanchine Dance
Archive 02/04/2003
Comparative Media Studies
grad student Michael Epstein 04 has joined the Metamedia
Team. He will be working with MIT dance professor Tommy
DeFrantz on The Balanchine Dance Archive. This archive
provides students with a digital workspace to collect
and juxtapose critical video clips, dance silhouettes,
musical forms, and texts from "Agon".
American Authors archive to
be launched for 21L512: American Women Writers 02/04/2003
