From nickm at nickm.com  Thu Dec  4 09:16:58 2014
From: nickm at nickm.com (Nick Montfort)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:16:58 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Purple-Blurb] Events today & tomorrow
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1412040909220.7859@nickm>


Dear Purple Blurb folks,

Our one big public event of the semester is today at 5pm and is 
co-sponsored with the Communications Forum:


December 4, 5pm-7pm at MIT in 66-110

LEV MANOVICH - FOX HARRELL - NICK MONTFORT

?Making Computing Strange,? a forum with: Lev Manovich (Software Takes 
Command, The Language of New Media), Fox Harrell (Phantasmal Media), 
moderated by Nick Montfort. The forum will examine the ways in which 
computational models can be used in cultural contexts for everything from 
analyzing media to imagining new ways to represent ourselves.

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/makingcomputing.html


Tomorrow, on Friday from about 10am until 5pm, there will be a workday 
and playday at the Trope Tank. This is a time when the lab (in MIT's 
14N-233) will be open and people will be working on projects of various 
sorts, from printing things using letterpress and dot matrix systems 
to sorting through floppy disks for home computers to playing classic 
video games. If you have an interest in one of these projects, or 
something else (such as programming in HyperCard or on the C64), this can 
be accommodated. Please email me if you would like to participate and 
let me know approximately when you plan to be there, along with something 
about your interest in activities that day.

  -Nick