{"id":4714,"date":"2018-10-09T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2019-09-10T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T00:05:24","slug":"hard-west-turn-at-time-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2018\/10\/hard-west-turn-at-time-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Hard West Turn<\/i> at Time Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two weeks only (today through October 23), my limited-edition computer-generated book, <a href=\"\/\/badquar.to\/publications\/hard_west_turn.html\"><em>Hard West Turn,<\/em><\/a> is available for reading in an installation at <a href=\"\/\/www.time.farm\/\">Time Farm,<\/a> underneath the MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Time Farm entrance\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4715\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Hard West Turn awaiting a reader\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4717\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Hard West Turn open to the title page\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4716\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/hwt_at_time_farm_3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/badquar.to\/publications\/hard_west_turn.html\"><em>Hard West Turn<\/em><\/a> is a computer-generated novel about gun violence in the United States. The copy exhibited is one of three artist&#8217;s proofs; only 13 copies (one for each of the original states) were made for sale. <a href=\"\/\/nickm.com\/code\/hard_west_turn_2018.py\">The generating program is free software,<\/a> but the specific copy-edited text of this book has only been made available in print. <em>Hard West Turn<\/em> will be regenerated annually for limited-edition publication each July 4.<\/p>\n<p>Consult the staff of the MIT Press Bookstore for access to Time Farm. Visitors are asked to remain for an hour without using devices such as phones or computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two weeks only (today through October 23), my limited-edition computer-generated book, Hard West Turn, is available for reading in an installation at Time Farm, underneath the MIT Press Bookstore, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. Hard West Turn is a computer-generated novel about gun violence in the United States. The copy exhibited is one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2018\/10\/hard-west-turn-at-time-farm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Hard West Turn<\/i> at Time Farm&#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":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","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=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}