A Media Archaeology of Boston

Tomorrow night at 7pm at the Harvard Film Archive there's going to be a dig into 100 years of cinema representation of Boston - from early silent panoramas of the new subway lines to government films, Hollywood blockbusters, 8mm art pieces, 1950s commercials, and YouTube clips.  I co-curated A Media Archaeology of Boston with Jesse Shapins and Olga Touloumi of Harvard's Graduate School of Design and Ernst Karel of the Film Study Center.  It's the opening event of Cambridge Talks, an annual symposium that brings together scholars in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning.  This year's symposium theme is "Mediated Space."