Nick Montfort
Author
Series
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this influential videogame console from both computational and cultural perspectives. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. --from publisher description
3) The future
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.
4) The Truelist
Author
Series
Publisher
Counterpath
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Truelist is a book-length poem generated by a one-page, stand-alone computer program. Based around compound words, some more conventional, some quite unusual, the poem invites the reader to imagine moving through a strange landscape that seems to arise from the English language itself. The unusual compounds are open to being understood differently by each reader, given that person's cultural and individual background"--
Series
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"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 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...
