{"id":2434,"date":"2012-04-26T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:28:22","slug":"creative-material-computing-in-a-laboratory-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/04\/creative-material-computing-in-a-laboratory-context\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tropetank.mit.edu\">The Trope Tank<\/a> has just issued a new technical report:<\/p>\n<p><b>Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context<\/b><br \/>\nNick Montfort and Natalia Fedorova<br \/>\nTROPE-12-03  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tropetank.mit.edu\/TROPE-12-03.pdf\">Download the full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract<\/b><br \/>\nPrinciples for organizing a laboratory with material computing resources  are articulated. This laboratory, the Trope Tank, is a facility for  teaching, research, and creative collaboration and offers hardware (in  working condition and set up for use) from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s,  including videogame systems, home computers, an arcade cabinet, and a  workstation. Other resources include controllers, peripherals, manuals,  books, and software on physical media. In reorganizing the space, we  considered its primary purpose as a laboratory (rather than as a library  or studio), organized materials by platform and intended use, and provided  additional cues and textual information about the historical contexts of  the available systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trope Tank has just issued a new technical report: Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context Nick Montfort and Natalia Fedorova TROPE-12-03 Download the full report Abstract Principles for organizing a laboratory with material computing resources are articulated. This laboratory, the Trope Tank, is a facility for teaching, research, and creative collaboration and offers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/04\/creative-material-computing-in-a-laboratory-context\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,37,81,17,11,23,41,115,13],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academics","tag-archiving","tag-creativity","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-hardware","tag-history","tag-trope-tank","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}