The Trope Tank: A Laboratory with Material Resources for Creative Computing

Autores

  • Nick Montfort Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
  • Erik Stayton Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
  • Natalia Fedorova St. Petersburg State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2014v10n2p53

Resumo

Os princípios para organização e uso de um laboratório com recursos computacionais materiais se interconectam. Enquanto instalação, o Trope Tank funciona como um laboratório para o ensino, pesquisa e colaboração criativa que oferece hardwares das décadas de 1970, 1980 e 1990 (todos em funcionamento e configurados para uso), incluindo sistemas de videogame, computadores domésticos, e uma cabine de arcade. Para auxiliar na investigação da história material dos textos, o laboratório tem uma pequena tipografia do século XIX, uma máquina de escrever, um terminal de impressão e impressoras matriciais. Outros recursos incluem controles, periféricos, manuais, livros e software em mídia física. Tais recursos são utilizados para o ensino, emprestados para exposições e apresentações locais, sendo também acessíveis a pesquisadores e artistas. O espaço é essencialmente um laboratório (em vez de uma biblioteca, estúdio, ou um museu), dessa forma, os materiais são organizados pela plataforma e uso pretendido. As informações textuais acerca do contexto histórico dos sistemas disponíveis e recursos são configuradas para permitir a fácil operação, e até mesmo o uso ocasional, por pesquisadores, professores, estudantes e artistas.

Biografia do Autor

Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

Nick Montfort is an Associate Professor of Digital Media and director of the Trope Tank Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Montfort develops literary generators and other computational art and poetry, and has participated in dozens of writing collaborations. He is the principal of the naming firm Nomnym. He is also a director of the Electronic Literature Organization. Montfort wrote the books of poems #! and Riddle & Bind, co-wrote 2002: A Palindrome Story, and developed more than forty digital projects. The MIT Press has published four of his collaborative and individual books: The New Media Reader, Twisty Little Passages, Racing the Beam, and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10.

Erik Stayton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

Erik Stayton works as a Research Assistant at the Trope Tank.  He is a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies and has a dual-degree in Physics and English (2011, Brown University - Providence). Stayton is a writer, designer, and programmer. He also co-runs Cinnamon Bird, a programming partnership building tools for distributed knowledge production.

Natalia Fedorova, St. Petersburg State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Natalia Fedorova is a new media artist, writer, literary scholar and translator. Natalia holds a PhD in Literary Theory from Herzen State University (St-Petersburg). She is an author of publications on avant-garde poetry, kinetic poetry, concrete poetry, hyperfiction, literary text generators and video poetry, as well as a curator and creator of VIDEO.txt, videopoetry festival in St- Petersburg. During 2011 – 2012 Natalia was a Fulbright guest researcher at the Trope Tank, MIT. In collaboration with Taras Mashtalir she founded Machine Libertine, a media poetry project. Currently Natalia is a SPIRE guest researcher with the ELMCIP group at the University of Bergen (Norway) and an editor of e-lit and new media writing column in Rattapallax mMagazine (NY).

Publicado

2014-12-16

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