The Student Choice Speaker Series is presented by the Arts at MIT and TapTape, an MIT-based music startup (winner of the MIT Creative Arts Competition in 2014), and brings together leaders in the creative industries with leading faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For more information, contact:
Sam Hunter Magee
Manager, Student Arts Programs at MIT
sammagee@mit.edu / 617.253.4004
Media Contact:
Leah Talatinian
Communications Manager, Arts at MIT
LeahT@mit.edu / 617.253.5351
Student Choice Speaker Series
Killer Mike: Race Relations in the US
Friday, April 24, 2015 / 7:00pm, Doors 6:30pm
The lecture is open to students with MIT ID only with RSVP. Seating is limited.
Killer Mike is a hip hop artist and activist whose solo album R.A.P. Music is a document of the socio-economic discrepancies and racism that still plague America. He is currently part of the duo Run the Jewels.
Killer Mike will speak about race relations in the US and address how current and future technologies could impact race relation issues.
Introduction: Christopher Nolte, MIT graduate student and CEO & Co-Founder of TapTape
Moderator: Ian Condry, MIT professor from the department of Comparative Media Studies and head of Foreign Languages and Literatures
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Image: Killer Mike Credit: Samantha J.
Young Guru: Design and Destruction
Friday, March 6, 2015 / 7:00pm, Doors 6:30pm
The lecture is open to students with MIT ID only with RSVP. Seating is limited.
Legendary audio engineer, educator and DJ, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton is one of the men behind the iconic sound of world-renowned artist Jay-Z. Guru will speak about how there is a growing gap between the intentions, final execution of innovation and the ultimate execution as design, as and tech continues to create and recreate new realities. Young Guru will shed light on how design and innovation changed music and how that impact is now spreading to other aspects of design, innovation and tech as it relates to humanity.
Introduction: Christopher Nolte, MIT graduate student and CEO & Co-Founder of TapTape
Moderator: Ian Condry, MIT professor from the department of Comparative Media Studies and head of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Read the press release