Content tagged "computation"
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Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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Algorithmic Music: An Experience Composing with WolframTones
Andrew Whitacre on how to use algorithmic music generation in WolframTones as the inspiration for a full, human-sounding composition.
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Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn’t just for the tech-inclined — programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers…and questions…they’ve never seen before.
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Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Schrier argues that knowledge games are potentially powerful because of their ability to motivate a crowd of problem solvers within a dynamic system while also tapping into the innovative data processing and computational abilities of games.
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How Did the Computer Learn to See?
Did computers learn to see by modernity’s most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
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Listening in Code: Process and Politics in Interactive Musical Works
Illuminating the distinct claims that sound and software hold on one another as creative domains, open mediational music invites listeners to rehearse a conscientious engagement with the sites and conditions of computationally mediated cultural encounter.
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Podcast: Ryan Cordell, “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, speaks about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
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A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What’s It All About?
Let’s talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who’s doing what where in DH at MIT?
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Beginning Exploratory Programming
How to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture.
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Summary, Podcast, Video: “Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media”
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT’s Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
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Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT’s Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
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Network Design: A Theory of Scale for Ubiquitous Computing
The operation of ubiquitous computing networks at three scales: the body scale, the architectural scale and the urban scale.
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Podcast and Liveblog: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery” with Miguel Sicart
Miguel Sicart looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
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Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
Games scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
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A Narrative Generation Conversation
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.
