[Purple-Blurb] Purple Blurb returns this Spring 2011

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurbers,

I'm back from a productive, teaching-free, Purple-Blurb-free semester. A
nice change, but I've missed the reading series (and even teaching). I'm
enjoying bring around at MIT now and am looking forward to another great
semester of Purple Blurb presentations dealing with digital writing.

Events are set for: MARCH 8 - MARCH 31 - MAY 7.

They are all at MIT, and are held in collaboration with the deCordova 
Museum, the CMS Colloquium series, and the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

I suppose if I were to give this semester's Purple Blurb series a title, 
it would have to be something like "Junctions: Adding together 
Difference." We have three joint programs that take place at different 
times on different days of the week and in two different rooms. And for 
whatever reason, every event's title has a colon.

We also have a really incredible lineup of diverse programs: A 
discussion (organized jointly with the deCordova Museum) by five leading 
thinkers with incisive perspectives on computing and the arts, visual 
and literary; a presentation (jointly with the CMS Colloquium) of an 
intriguing work that combines digital media and the book arts to bridge 
realities; and a trio of presentations, followed by discussion, thanks 
to three makers of adventure games and electronic literature -- this 
last one part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Again, all events are at MIT; as always, they are free and open to the 
public.

Details are below. I hope to see you at this semester's events.

   -Nick



--- Computers and Creativity: The Intersection of Art and Technology ---

TUESDAY March 8
7pm Bartos (Lower level of E15)

   a discussion moderated by
John Maeda
   president, Rhode Island School of Design

Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab
John Cayley, Brown University Literary Arts
George Fifield, curator & Boston Cyberarts Festival director
Mark Wilson, exhibiting artist

Held in collaboration with the deCordova Museum on the occasion of the 
Drawing with Code exhibit


--- Between Page and Screen: Digital, Visual & Material Poetics ---

THURSDAY March 31
4pm 2-105

Amaranth Borsuk
   MIT Mellon postdoctoral fellow, WHS & CMS

Held in collaboration with the Comparative Media Studies Colloquium Series


--- Adventuresome Creations: Interactive Fiction, Graphical Adventures
      & Electronic Literature ---

SATURDAY May 7
3pm 2-105

Brian Moriarty
   (Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom)
   professor of practice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Clara Fernández-Vara
   (Rosemary, Symon)
   MIT postdoctoral researcher, GAMBIT

Zuzana Husarova
   (Pulse)
   MIT Fulbright scholar, the Trope Tank

Part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival


-- 
-   Nick Montfort         nickm at nickm.com     http://nickm.com
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-   Associate Professor of Digital Media
-   Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies, MIT
-   77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14N-233, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
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-   President, The Electronic Literature Organization