MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Nick Montfort on a new interactive fiction system that draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to allow the transformation of the narrating.
This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
The games showcased in this exhibit demonstrate that there is a wide variety of approaches one can follow in adapting literary works into games.
Co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT's Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
Haitian poet, singer and song-writer Roosevelt Saillant, better known as “B.I.C.” for “Brain. Intelligence. Creativity,” is one of the best known and most creative and prolific artists in Haiti.
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.
