[Purple-Blurb] ADVENTURE with us Saturday, 3pm, in MIT's 6-120

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurbers,

Our last event of the semester will happen this Saturday, as part of the 
final weekend of events in the Boston Cyberarts Festival. There will be a 
great deal to do this weekend! We hope that coming to the 3pm Purple Blurb 
and hearing presentations from three interactive fiction and electronic 
literature creators will be part of that for you:

   Adventuresome Creations:
   Interactive Fiction, Graphical Adventures & Electronic Literature

   Saturday, May 7, 3pm, in MIT’s 6-120

Brian Moriarty
   Creator of Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom
     professor of practice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Clara Fernández-Vara
   Creator of Rosemary, Symon
     MIT postdoctoral researcher, GAMBIT

Zuzana Husarova
   Creator of Pulse
     MIT Fulbright scholar, the Trope Tank

Prof. Moriarty (*), who has worked for Infocom and LucasArts creating text 
and graphical adventures, will present some of his groundbreaking work in 
adventure game creation; Dr. Fernández-Vara will share her recent 
graphical adventures, developed as research projects here at the 
Singapore/MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; and Dr. Husarova will share digital poetry 
and a digital media art piece that remakes net.art texts using the Kinect.

(* Yes, this is his real title and name.)

If you have *KIDS* interested in interactive fiction, you may want to send 
them (or, although we'll miss you at MIT, take them) to Story and Play: 
Interactive Fiction for Children, an event at the Cambridge Public Library 
organized by my fellow member of the People's Republic of Interactive 
Fiction, Brendan Desilets:

http://www.bdesilets.com/if/

The group will be playing "Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret" at 2:30pm -- 
unfortunately, the two events do conflict. It's a tough choice, as Brian 
Moriarty created the premier work of interactive fiction for young readers, 
Wishbringer. But, this weekend is truly packed with digital media events, 
and there are many of us working to bring interactive fiction, adventure 
games, and electronic literature to the public.

Also this weekend, and not conflicting, are other events in the final two 
days of the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival:

http://bostoncyberarts.org/festival/

And, the FAST LIGHT event (with installations), the last big one in MIT's 
Festival of Art, Science, and Technology, will be getting started on 
campus soon after Purple Blurb, at 7pm. Incidentally, rumor has it that 
you can find information, distributed across campus, that will let you 
play a special interactive fiction piece set at MIT on your cell phone or 
on the Web:

http://arts.mit.edu/fast/fast-light/

I'm looking forward to the weekend and hoping that the Saturday time will 
let many of you join us for a stimulating adventure into various fictional 
and poetic digital worlds.

  -Nick

-- 
-   Nick Montfort         nickm at nickm.com     http://nickm.com
--
-   Associate Professor of Digital Media
-   Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies, MIT
-   77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14N-233, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
--
-   President, The Electronic Literature Organization