[Purple-Blurb] Revised Spring 2013 schedule w/ four events

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurbers,

I'm pleased to announce our *revised* Spring 2013 schedule for Purple 
Blurb, with four events -- one added, one rescheduled thanks to our 
no-name storm. I hope you will join us at some or all of these.

Except for the first event, which takes place Friday March 8, 6pm in 
6-120, all of our events this semester are on Mondays at 5:30pm in MIT's 
room 14E-310.

Please note that this room is in the East wing of Building 14, across the 
building's courtyard from the Hayden Library. Building 14 is not part of 
the Media Lab Complex.


Friday March 8, 6pm in 6-120

    LIT Journal at MIT: Reading & Performance

Digital writing from contributors to the New School's Journal
(Note unusual day, time, and room: This reading was scheduled to allow AWP 
attendees to join us.)
Featuring:
   Maria Damon
Ian Hatcher
   Andrea Quaid
Evelyn Hampton
   Ed Steck
Lydia Melby


March 11, 5:30pm in 14E-310

    Debra Di Blasi

“Skin of the Sun: Five Iterations Toward Human As Novel”
Followed by a discussion of the literary publisher’s role in the 21st 
Century

Debra Di Blasi is a multi-genre, multimedia author of six books, including 
The Jirí Chronicles & Other Fictions, Drought & Say What You Like, and 
Skin of the Sun. Awards include a James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction 
from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Thorpe Menn Book Award, 
Cinovation Screenwriting Award, and Diagram Innovative Fiction Award. Her 
fiction is included in a many leading anthologies of innovative writing 
and has been adapted to film, radio, theatre, and audio CD in the U.S. and 
abroad. Her essays, art reviews and articles can be found in a variety of 
international, national and regional publications. She frequently lectures 
on the intersection of literature and technology and is working on a 
nonfiction book on related topics.


April 8, 5:30pm in 14E-310

   Gretchen E. Henderson

“Galerie de Difformité:The Book as Body, The Body as Book”
Followed by an OPEN MIC!

Gretchen E. Henderson is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at MIT and a metaLAB 
fellow at Harvard, who writes across genres, the arts, and music to 
invigorate her critical and creative practices. She is the author of two 
novels, The House Enters the Street and Galerie de Difformité (winner of 
the Madeleine Plonsker Prize), a collection of nonfiction, On Marvellous 
Things Heard, and a poetry chapbook, Wreckage: By Land & By Sea. Among 
other projects at MIT, she is working on Ugliness: A Cultural History (for 
Reaktion Books), while continuing the collaborative deformation of Galerie 
de Difformité: a print book that is interfacing with the history and 
future of the book, networked online, inviting readers to participate in 
its (de)formation across media.


April 22, 5:30pm in 14E-310

   Jason McIntosh

Presents the Interactive Fiction "The Warbler's Nest"
(Rescheduled!)

Jason McIntosh is an independent games critic, designer, and scholar. 
During the previous decade, he produced “The Gameshelf”, a public-access 
TV series examining both tabletop and digital games, and “Jmac’s Arcade,” 
a set of video monologues on growing up within the arcade culture of the 
1980s. More recently, he’s taught a game-studies lab at Northeastern 
University, published the XYZZY Award-winning work of interactive fiction 
“The Warbler's Nest”, crafted the iPad edition of the tabletop game 
“Sixis” by Chris Cieslik, and worked as a game-design consultant for other 
clients. He continues to write game-criticism essays on The Gameshelf’s 
blog, and produces the occasional episode of the podcast series “Play of 
the Light”, which he co-hosts with Matthew Weise. His website collecting 
all this stuff may be found at jmac.org

  -Nick