[Neasis-l] Creative computing -- Harvard Bookstore event and more

[Patsy Baudoin]

Friends and colleagues,


My new book, written with nine others, is coming out within a week -- please join me and some of my co-authors for one or both of our Boston-area events.



It's 38 CHARACTERS in search of 10 AUTHORS ... an addition to the Software Studies series ... the most intensive reading of a computer program ever accomplished ... a celebration of the creative potential of the computer... a book called ...



10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10



By Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample and Noah Vawter



Published by the MIT Press, November 2012.



This book takes a single line of code--the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title--and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text--in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources--that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.



Hardcover | $30.00 | ISBN: 9780262018463 | 304 pp. | 6x9 in | 69 b&w illus.



http://mitpress.mit.edu//9780262018463<http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262018463>

http://isbn.nu/9780262018463



--- We have two upcoming EVENTS in the Boston area! Please join us. ---



November 12, 7pm

Harvard Book Store

1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA



The first copies of 10 PRINT anywhere are available for sale! A reading and discussion by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, and Noah Vawter about the book and how it was written ... and a festive event to celebrate 10 PRINT's publication.



November 28, 7:30pm

Boston Cyberarts Gallery

Green Street T Station (Orange Line), Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA



A presentation of the program and its relationship to digital art by Nick

Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, and Noah Vawter. A small-scale hackathon, in

which those attending are invited to modify the 10 PRINT program, will

follow.



Please feel free to tell others about these events if you think they’ll be interested.
-Patsy

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Patsy Baudoin, Ph.D., MLS
MIT Libraries Library Liaison to the Media Lab, Art, Culture and Technology Program, and Comparative Media Stusies
Media, Visual & Film Studies and Foreign Languages &Literatures Librarian
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