The exhibit Author Function, featuring computer-generated literary art in print, is now up in MIT’s Rotch Library (77 Mass Ave, Building 7, 2nd Floor) and in my lab/studio, The Trope Tank (Room 14N-233, in building 14, the same building that houses the Hayden Library). Please contact me by email if you are interested in seeing the materials in the Trope Tank, as this part of the exhibit is accessible by appointment only.
There are three events associated with the exhibit happening in Cambridge, Mass:
February 7, 6pm-7pm, a reading and signing at the MIT Press bookstore. Nick Montfort, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, and Allison Parrish.
March 5, 4:30pm-6pm, a reception at the main part of the exhibit in the Rotch Library.
March 5, 7pm-8pm, a reading and signing at the Harvard Book Store. John Cayley, Liza Daly, Nick Montfort, and Allison Parrish.
In addition to a shelf of computer-generated books that is available for perusal, by appointment, in the Trope Tank, the following items of printed matter are displayed in the exhibit:
- 2×6, Nick Montfort, Serge Bouchardon, Andrew Campana, Natalia Fedorova, Carlos León, Aleksandra Ma?ecka, and Piotr Marecki
- A Slow Year: Game Poems, Ian Bogost
- Action Score Generator, Nathan Walker
- American Psycho, Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff
- Anarchy, John Cage
- Articulations, Allison Parrish
- Autopia, Nick Montfort
- Brute Force Manifesto: The Catalog of All Truth, Version 1.1, Series AAA-1, Vol 01, Brian James
- Clear Skies All Week, Alison Knowles
- Firmy, Piotr Puldzian P?ucienniczak
- for the sleepers in that quiet earth., Sofian Audry
- From the Library of Babel: Axaxaxas Mlo – The Combed Thunderclap LXUM,LKWC – MCV – The Plaster Cramp, Christian Bök
- Generation[s], J.R. Carpenter
- Google Volume 1, King Zog
- How It Is In Common Tongues, Daniel C. Howe and John Cayley
- Incandescent Beautifuls, Erica T. Carter [Jim Carpenter]
- Irritant, Darby Larson
- Love Letters, Letterpress Broadside, Output by a reimplementation of a program by Christopher Strachey
- Mexica: 20 Years – 20 Stories / 20 años – 20 historias, Rafael Pérez y Pérez
- My Buttons Are Blue: And Other Love Poems From the Digital Heart of an Electronic Computer, A Color Computer
- My Molly [Departed], Talan Memmott
- no people, Katie Rose Pipkin
- Phaedrus Pron, Paul Chan
- Puniverse, Volumes 32 and 38 of 57, Stephen Reid McLaughlin
- Re-Writing Freud, Simon Morris
- Seraphs, Liza Daly
- The Appearances of the Letters of the Hollywood Sign in Increasing Amounts of Smog and at a Distance, Poster, David Gissen
- The Poiceman’s Beard is Half Constructed: Computer prose and poetry by Racter
- The Truelist, Nick Montfort
- Tristano, Nanni Balestrini
- Written Images, Eds. Matrin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel
Here are some photos documenting the exhibit:
