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Book Launch: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, second edition
/ ONLINE STREAM /
Sunday June 27, 3pm Eastern Time
Presenting a new edition of a book for anyone who wants to program computers in order to explore and create. Grammy-award winning rapper Wasalu Jaco (pka Lupe Fiasco) calls it “an optimal place to begin your journey into coding. Clear, concise, and of consequence.”
Ready for use by individuals and informal groups, this book from the MIT Press is both available in print as a hardback, lie-flat publication (place it alongside your computer for the best experience!) and freely downloadable in an open access digital format.
In conversation with Berlin-based scholar Nikita Braguinski, author Nick Montfort will discuss how programmers can create new kinds of artworks and to probe data for new ideas, as well as how computing exists in a cultural context. He will cover some less typical approaches in the book — learning across media types and programming languages. Nick and Nikita will also discuss the relationship between “arts” (generative) and “humanities” (analytical) types of programming.
nickm.com/ep2e -- Watch live at twitch.tv/babycastles
Book Launch: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, second edition
/ ONLINE STREAM /
Sunday June 27, 3pm Eastern Time
Presenting a new edition of a book for anyone who wants to program computers in order to explore and create. Grammy-award winning rapper Wasalu Jaco (pka Lupe Fiasco) calls it “an optimal place to begin your journey into coding. Clear, concise, and of consequence.”
Ready for use by individuals and informal groups, this book from the MIT Press is both available in print as a hardback, lie-flat publication (place it alongside your computer for the best experience!) and freely downloadable in an open access digital format.
In conversation with Berlin-based scholar Nikita Braguinski, author Nick Montfort will discuss how programmers can create new kinds of artworks and to probe data for new ideas, as well as how computing exists in a cultural context. He will cover some less typical approaches in the book — learning across media types and programming languages. Nick and Nikita will also discuss the relationship between “arts” (generative) and “humanities” (analytical) types of programming.
nickm.com/ep2e -- Watch live at twitch.tv/babycastles
