[Purple-Blurb] TODAY's narrative generation conversation

[Nick Montfort]

Please join us in 6-120 today at 5:30pm!

       A conversation about narrative generation and
       MEXICA, GRIOT, and Curveship
       with Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Fox Harrell, and Nick Montfort

Three creators of poetic and imaginative systems speak about computational 
creativity, narrative generation, and the way systems for this sort of 
work relate to culture.

Rafael Pérez y Pérez is creator of the plot-focused MEXICA system for the 
generation of stories and is Profesor/Investigador Titular C in the 
Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información at the Universidad Autónoma 
Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa, México D. F.

Fox Harrell is creator of GRIOT and the Alloy algorithm, which generates 
literary and multimedia texts based on conceptual structures. Harrell is 
associate professor of digital media at MIT in CMS/WHS, a principal 
investigator at CSAIL, and head of the Imagination, Computation, and 
Expression Laboratory.

Nick Montfort developed Curveship, an interactive fiction and text 
generation systems that allows for parametrically controlled narrative 
variation. Montfort is associate professor of digital media at MIT in 
CMS/WHS and head of the Trope Tank.

Thanks to the Angus N. Macdonald Fund and MIT Writing and Humanistic 
Studies.

  -Nick