[Purple-Blurb] In 14E-310: Páll Thayer on Microcodes today, 5:30pm

[Nick Montfort]

Sorry, friends of the Blurb, I slipped up on the room number in my 
previous email.

We're in 14E-310 (a regular room for Purple Blurb,) which is across the 
hall from the room I listed. I fixed it below, too...

Hope to see you at 5:30pm!

  -Nick

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Nick Montfort wrote:

>
> Please join us *today* at 5:30pm in MIT's 14E-310 for our first Spring 2014 
> Purple Blurb presentation:
>
> Páll Thayer
> Microcodes
>
> 5:30pm
> Today (Monday March 10)
> 14E-310
>
> Short Perl programs that are also artworks, presented for viewers to read, 
> download, and execute. Thayer will trace some key steps showing how he went 
> from his background in painting and drawing to presenting code as his 
> artwork.
>
> Páll Thayer is an Icelandic artist working primarily with computers and the 
> Internet. He is devout follower of open-source culture. His work is developed 
> using open-source tools and source-code for his projects is always released 
> under a GPL license. His work has been exhibited at galleries and festivals 
> around the world with solo shows in Iceland, Sweden and New York and notable 
> group shows in the US, Canada, Finland, Germany and Brazil (to name but a 
> few). Pall Thayer has an MFA degree in visual arts from Concordia University 
> in Montreal. He is an active member of Lorna, Iceland’s only organization 
> devoted to electronic arts. He is also an alumni member of The Institute for 
> Everyday Life, Concordia/Hexagram, Montreal. Pall Thayer currently works as a 
> lecturer and technical support specialist at SUNY Purchase College, New York.
>
> Páll and I also have an exhibit up now at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery:
>
> http://nickm.com/post/2014/02/programs-at-an-exhibition-march-6-16/
>
> -Nick