[Purple-Blurb] Purple Blurb series on digital writing, Fall 2008: Steve Meretzky, Jesper Juul, Jason Scott

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurb participants,

The Purple Blurb series of readings of, talks on, and discussion about 
digital writing is continuing at MIT this Fall 2008. This semester is a 
gamey one, and features three speakers who bring a variety of perspectives 
to how writing and digital media intersect.

All talks are on Mondays at 6pm, but please note that the first of three 
is *not* in the Trope Tank (14N-233), our usual location for Purple Blurb.

Steve
Meretzky
           October 6, 6pm, 32-141

         Meretzky, an alumnus of MIT, was the most prolific author at
         the most successful interactive fiction company, Infocom.
         The work he did there included writing Planetfall, A Mind
         Forever Voyaging, and Leather Godesses of Phobos as well as
         collaborating with Douglas Adams to develop The Hitchhiker's
         Guide to the Galaxy. Meretzky has worked at Legend
         Entertainment, Boffo Games, and WorldWinner. He is currently
         at Blue Fang Games.

Jesper
Juul
          October 27, 6pm, 14N-233

        Juul is a video game theorist and author of Half Real: Video
        Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (MIT Press,
        2006). He is also a video game developer, and in this capacity
        he created High Seas, a casual matching-tile game with a
        narrative frame. Juul is currently a lecturer in the Program
        in Writing and Humanistic Studies; he works at the
        Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.

Jason
Scott
         November 17, 6pm, 14N-233

       Scott is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes BBS: The
       Documentary and a film about interactive fiction, Get Lamp,
       which is now in post-production. In addition to making films,
       Scott maintains the main archive of textfiles (plain-text
       documents) as they appeared on computer bulletin board systems
       in the 1980s and early 1990s. He also blogs about digital
       media topics on ASCII.


The Purple Blurb page, with more information about the series, is at:

http://nickm.com/if/purple_blurb/

This mailing list is for announcements of events in the series. People may 
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http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/purple-blurb

I hope to see you at some or all of the events this semester.

  -Nick

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-   Nick Montfort         nickm at nickm.com   http://nickm.com
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-   Assistant Professor of Digital Media
  -  Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
-   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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