[Purple-Blurb] Processing Time

[Nick Montfort]

Purple Blurb participants,

As I should have mentioned on the list, Purple Blurb is on hiatus this 
semester, because I'm on leave from teaching to research and write. The 
series will be returning in the fall, and we may even be meeting more 
frequently than we have in the past.

In the meantime, I want to call your attention to an event I'm running on 
May 2, Processing Time:

Processing Time
A Code Jam

Saturday, May 2, 2009 — MIT N52–390
265 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd Floor

Concept

     * Compete individually or in pairs to design and develop beautiful 
programs in Processing
     * Snack and refresh yourself
     * Present completed projects to other participants and visitors at the 
end of the day
     * Anyone (not just MIT students or community members) can compete, 
anyone can stop by to see presentations
     * Meet the creators of Processing, Ben Fry (in person) and Casey Reas 
(via video), who will give awards

Schedule

     * 12:30-01:00 pm: Check in
     * 01:00-01:15 pm: Welcome
     * 01:15-05:15 pm: Coding Session
     * 05:15-06:45 pm: Presentations and Awards — Public welcome!

Registration

Register in advance, individually or in two-person teams, by emailing 
processing-time at mit.edu with one or two participant names and a team name.

Festival

Processing Time is sponsored by MIT (Arts Initiatives at MIT, Center for 
Advanced Visual Studies, Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies) and is 
part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

-- 
-   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
  -  77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14N-233
-   Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
--  (On leave Spring 2009)