[Purple-Blurb] Everything Akimbo Monday! and the full Fall schedule...

[Nick Montfort]

Purple Blubers, please come and join us for our most participatory, most 
welcoming event ever -- EVERYTHING AKIMBO September 19 in E14-674, 
beginning at 5:30pm.

At this event, you can learn about the Electronic Literature Organization 
<http://eliterature.org> -- which has just moved its headquarters to MIT 
and which promotes exactly the sort of work that is presented in the 
Purple Blurb series.

You can also hear and see presentations of electronic literature by a wide 
variety of participants, including members of the board of directors of 
the ELO, students at MIT and Brown (and maybe from other places), and 
members of the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction.

And, if you like, you can present and read from electronic literature work 
yourself!



Also, the full Purple Blurb schedule for this semester can be found at:

http://nickm.com/if/purple_blurb/index.html#fall2011

All events this semester are on MONDAYS beginning at 5:30pm at MIT...



))))) Everything Akimbo: Welcoming the ELO to MIT (((((

September 19 in E14-674 (Media Lab Extension, 6th floor), 5:30pm

The Electronic Literature Organization: Open House / Open Mic / Open Mouse

An international nonprofit organization to facilitate and promote the 
writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media.

Please join us in welcoming the Electronic Literature Organization to MIT 
with an open house / open mic / open mouse featuring 5-7 minute 
presentations and readings by a host of electronic literature authors 
(perhaps including you)! Presenters will include:

     Nick Montfort, president, ELO
     Other directors and ELO members
     John Cayley, Brown University, Organizer, 2010 ELO Conference

5:30 pm is the kickoff: Signup begins and a short presentation about the 
ELO, followed by discussion, will ensue. At 6:30 pm the open mic readings 
& presentations will start.


))))) Seeing and Writing: Russian Multimedia Poetry - Natalia Fedorova (((((

October 24 in 14E-310, 5:30pm

Natalia Fedorova is creator of Madame Ebaressa and a Butterfly and 
Visiting Fulbright Fellow, MIT, The Trope Tank.

Natalia Fedorova’s work includes an interactive novel, Madame Ebaressa and 
a Butterfly, co-written with Sergeij Kitov; 7, a  hyper fiction piece with 
three possible endings; Dialogue Between a Policeman and a Ballerina, a 
video installation with the Factory of Found Clothes; and two poetry 
films, Snow Queen and Just do not not do it. She is also the founder and 
curator of VIDE0.txt, a poetry film festival in St-Petersburg, Russia and 
the co-curator of SELF-ID.com, a digital publishing portal.


))))) Beyond Zork: Games & Interactive Fiction with Brian Moriarty (((((

November 28 in 6-120, 5:30pm

Brian Moriarty is creator of Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom and Professor of 
Practice, WPI.

Brian Moriarty built his first computer in the fifth grade. He began 
publishing games in the early 1980s and in 1984 joined legendary text 
adventure company Infocom, where he authored three award-winning 
interactive fiction titles, Wishbringer (1985), Trinity (1986) and Beyond 
Zork (1987). His first graphic adventure game, Loom, was published in 1990 
by Lucasfilm Games to wide critical acclaim.


))))) Penumbra: Rich Media & Gestural Text with Samantha Gorman (((((

December 5 in 6-120, 5:30pm

Samantha Gorman is creator of Penumbra, Books of Kells, Canticle and 
teaches in Performance Studies & Digital Literature, RISD.

Samantha Gorman is a writer and media artist who composes for the 
intersection of text, dance, performance, and digital culture. She holds 
an MFA and BA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where she studied 
poetry and writing for digital media. Penumbra, a hybrid art/literature 
app for the iPad created with Danny Cannizzaro, challenges the notion of a 
static "ebook" by carefully integrating short film, rich animation, 
illustration and fiction.


Many thanks to Amaranth Borsuk, the organizer of the Purple Blurb Series 
for academic year 2011-2012!

  -Nick