Pablo Gervas will describe systems developed at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid that focus on generating text that satisfies specific restrictions on form.
Mary Flanagan is author of Critical Play: Radical Game Design (MIT Press, 2009), creator of , and author of (among other digital writing works). She is Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth.
D. Fox Harrell is the creator of the GRIOT system for computational narrative and author of several works in this system, including Loss, Undersea and The Girl with Skin of Haints and Seraphs.
Join us in welcoming the Electronic Literature Organization to MIT with an open house/open mic / open mouse featuring 5-7 minute presentations and readings.
Marina Bers is author of Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2007) and creator of the system Zora.
Three creators of poetic and imaginative systems speak about computational creativity, narrative generation, and the way systems for this sort of work are culturally generated.
Tracy Fullerton is an experimental game designer, professor and director of the Game Innovation Lab at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she holds the Electronic Arts Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment.
Al Filreis has taught his "ModPo" course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera.
With Maria Damon, Ian Hatcher, Andrea Quaid, Evelyn Hampton, Ed Steck, and Lydia Melby.
Gretchen E. Henderson, author of Galerie de Difformité, is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT who writes across genres and the arts to invigorate her critical and creative practices.
Jason McIntosh is an independent games critic, designer, and scholar.
Páll Thayer is an Icelandic artist working primarily with computers and the Internet. He is devout follower of open-source culture.
Including a reading from his recent book ] and video from his Theories of Forgetting project.
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.
Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research centers on how we tell stories online, and she has published on electronic literature, digital art, blogging, games and selfies.
