[Purple-Blurb] Páll Thayer on Microcodes today, 5:30pm

[Nick Montfort]

Please join us *today* at 5:30pm in MIT's 14E-303 for our first Spring 
2014 Purple Blurb presentation:

Páll Thayer
Microcodes

5:30pm
Today (Monday March 10)
14E-303

Short Perl programs that are also artworks, presented for viewers to read, 
download, and execute. Thayer will trace some key steps showing how he 
went from his background in painting and drawing to presenting code as his 
artwork.

Páll Thayer is an Icelandic artist working primarily with computers and 
the Internet. He is devout follower of open-source culture. His work is 
developed using open-source tools and source-code for his projects is 
always released under a GPL license. His work has been exhibited at 
galleries and festivals around the world with solo shows in Iceland, 
Sweden and New York and notable group shows in the US, Canada, Finland, 
Germany and Brazil (to name but a few). Pall Thayer has an MFA degree in 
visual arts from Concordia University in Montreal. He is an active member 
of Lorna, Iceland’s only organization devoted to electronic arts. He is 
also an alumni member of The Institute for Everyday Life, 
Concordia/Hexagram, Montreal. Pall Thayer currently works as a lecturer 
and technical support specialist at SUNY Purchase College, New York.

Páll and I also have an exhibit up now at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery:

http://nickm.com/post/2014/02/programs-at-an-exhibition-march-6-16/

  -Nick