Book:
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies)
Event:
Creative Computing, Beginning With 10 PRINT
When: Wednesday, November 28th, 7:30pm
Where: Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Free event
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An evening to celebrate the publication by MIT Press of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title–and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The ten authors of this collaboratively written book, treat code not as merely functional but as a text—in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources—that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.
Nick Montfort will start off the evening leading a discussion among co-authors and the audience about this celebrated piece of software. And there will be a short hackathon.