November 23rd, 2002: The first Massaging Media conference was a one-day forum of artists/practitioners (filmmakers, performers, dancers, musicians, designers, writers, and illustrators) as well as theorists in culture, education, architecture, and philosophy.
Massaging Media was a collaboration, a dialog, a discourse, a lecture, a performance, a multi-disciplinary experiment, a multi-sensory experience and, for all of us, “... a process of subliminally sniffing out environmental change.†(Marshall McLuhan)
Participants
Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Cultural Theorist in new media
Chee Pearlman, Design / Editorial Consultant. Columnist for the New York Times and former Editor of ID Magazine
Mitchell Resnick, Director of Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the Media Lab at MIT and developer of StarLogo environment and Lego MindStorms
Nancy Bauer, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, teaches philosophy with film and feminist philosophy
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director of Visual Arts Program at MIT, head of The Interrogative Design Group at MIT
Sandy Stone,, Founding Director of ACTLab / Convergent Media program of the University of Texas. Filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, cultural theorist and performer
Maira Kalman, CEO, VP and Secretary, M&Co. Illustrator and Author of: Unfashion: A Designer's Strip Tease. Co-Illustrator of the New Yorker's "New Yorkistan" cover
Rick Meyerowitz, Illustrator for the National Lampoon, numerous magazines and books, and co-illustrator of the New Yorker's "New Yorkistan" cover
Jeffrey Huang + Muriel Waldvogel, Partners, Convergeo. Designers of new architectures and media that combine physical and virtual technologies
Glorianna Davenport, Principal Research Associate Director of Interactive Cinema, MIT. Pioneer in new methods of digital media: "Evolving Documentary" "Very Distributed Storytelling"
Aisling Kelliher, PhD candidate, Interactive Cinema at MIT (Media Lab). Developing software for video publishing online
Teresa Marrin Nakra, Artistic Director of Immersion Music, Inc., conductor, composer, and inventor of the "Digital Baton" and other digital technologies for musicians
Joanna Kurkowicz, Violinist, Concertmistress of the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Vermont Symphony
Sangita Shresthova, Dancer/Choreographer. Trained in Kathmandu, her performances incorporate visual projections and sound into Nepalese dance movements
Hosts:
Jan Kubasiewicz,
Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Design Program
Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Judith Richland,
President, Richland Design Associates Former President of AIGA Boston
Massaging Media was presented by the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and AIGA Boston. The event was sponsored by GMUND Paper, North America and Hewlett
Packard.
