Download - MIT Cool Japan CULTURAL ACTIONcooljapan.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Cultural Action.pdfIan Condry (MIT) “Virtual Idols, Social Media, and Digital Japan” free / open to

MIT Cool Japan research project presents: CULTURAL ACTION:

Frontier

or

Archipelagos?

panel and

dj partyPANELtues. feb. 22, 201112-1:30pm,14E-304(MIT)

Toshiya Ueno(wako university)“Avant-Garde Ethnography”

Wayne Marshall(MIT) “Clowning Around with SoundCloud”

Ian Condry(MIT) “Virtual Idols, Social Media, and Digital Japan”

free / open to the public, light reception After

dj partyw/ Beat ResearchMon. feb. 21, 20119pm-1am @ Enormous Room569 Mass. Ave., Cambridge

DJ Toshiya the Tribal (global/tribal/techno stylings)

DJ Ian Condry (Japanese hip-hop mega mix)

Wayne & Wax and DJ Flack (http://beatresearch.com)

Sponsors: MIT Japan Program, MIT Foreign Languages & Lit-eratures, and MIT Comparative Media Studies. Contacts: Reza Hosseini (617) 253-4771 or Prof. Ian Condry ([email protected]). Poster Design: Jeffrey Pearlin, Photo: Toshiya Ueno