[Purple-Blurb] Fox Harrell Monday at 6pm

[Nick Montfort]

On Monday (November 16)
  at 6pm
   in MIT's 14E-310

The Purple Blurb series of readings and presentations on digital writing
will present

  D. Fox Harrell

creator of GRIOT, a system that generates poetry and interactive 
multimedia events using Harrell's Alloy algorithm. Alloy uses the 
algebraic semiotics formalization of the cognitive linguistics theory of 
conceptual integration, also called conceptual blending.

The first poetic system implemented using GRIOT was "The Girl with Skin of 
Haints and Seraphs." The system generates prose poems about a girl with 
skin of angels and demons in response to user input that triggers the use 
of concepts from themes that include Europe, Africa, skin, and whiteness.

Fox Harrell is assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, 
Communication, and Culture, and is director of the Imagination, 
Computation, and Expression (ICE) Laboratory/Studio. He is also on the 
faculty of Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) 
Center. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of 
California, San Diego. His research focuses on developing new 
improvisational narrative forms. He also earned an M.P.S. in Interactive 
Telecommunications at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and 
both a B.F.A. in Art and a B.S. in Logic and Computation at Carnegie 
Mellon University. He has worked as a game designer and animation producer 
in New York City. He has completed a novel, “Milk Pudding Flavored with 
Rose Water, Blood Pudding Flavored by the Sea,” and is completing a book 
on an imaginative cognition- and computation-based approach to digital 
media, "Phantasmal Media."

The Purple Blurb home page can be found here:

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

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-   Nick Montfort         nickm at nickm.com     http://nickm.com
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-   Associate Professor of Digital Media
  -  Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies, MIT
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