[Purple-Blurb] Scott Rettberg on Monday 4/28 5:30pm, 14E-310

[Nick Montfort]

Please pardon my mistake. The event is in 14E-310, out usual Purple Blurb 
room for several semesters.

I had an "N" instead of an "E" in my original message, which I have 
corrected in the quotation below. That's the same building but a different 
wing.

Scott's recent work in narrative video art is very compelling, visually 
and in terms of the text, and I hope to see many of you at this 
presentation.

  -Nick

On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Nick Montfort wrote:

>
> Please join us for our next Purple Blurb:
>
> Scott Rettberg
>
> This Monday, 4/28 5:30pm
> In MIT's 14E-310
> Free & open to the public
>
> This Monday Purple Blurb is proud to host a screening and discussion of 
> narrative video art work done by Scott Rettberg in collaboration with 
> Roderick Coover, including The Last Volcano, Cats and Rats, Three Rails Live, 
> and Toxicity. (The last two are combinatory pieces; Three Rails Live is a 
> collaboration between Coover, Rettberg, and Nick Montfort.) These pieces deal 
> with personal and global catastrophes and are written across languages, with 
> one of the voices in Cats and Rats in (subtitled) Norwegian. They continue 
> Rettberg’s work on novel-length electronic literature projects and his 
> frequent collaboration with others.
>
> Scott Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture in the department of 
> Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, 
> Norway. Rettberg is the project leader of ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a 
> Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice), a HERA-funded collaborative 
> research project, and a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization. 
> Rettberg is the author or coauthor of novel-length works of electronic 
> literature, combinatory poetry, and films including The Unknown, Kind of 
> Blue, Implementation, Frequency, Three Rails Live, and Toxicity. His creative 
> work has been exhibited online and at art venues including the Chemical 
> Heritage Foundation Museum, Palazzo dell Arti Napoli, Beall Center, the 
> Slought Foundation, and The Krannert Art Museum.
>
> More on Purple Blurb: http://trope-tank.mit.edu/purple_blurb/
>
> -Nick