Extreme TrackingCCS at SLSA ‘07
Ξ October 28th, 2007 | → | by Mark Marino | ∇ conferences |
This Friday at the 21st Annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Portland, Maine, Critical Code Studies will get a major extension. The theme of the entire conference is Code, taking into account computer code, genetic codes, cryptographs, and more. One panel on computer code in particular poses to extend the work of CCS under the auspices of “Code as Argument.”
The panel features:
- Nick Montfort and Michael Mateas “Hammurabi’s Code”
- Ian Bogost, “Procedural Rhetoric”
- Mark Marino, “Encoding Terrorism: Applying Critical Code Studies
to Command and Control Code”
This panel may offer some of the most intensive readings of software yet. Other papers of interest to CCS:
- Rita Raley, “The im.positions of code” [05e]
- Zabet Patterson, “Code and the ‘Linguistic Turn’ in Art” [05e]
- Zach Blas, “TransCoder: Queer Programming Anti-Language” [07c]
- Edmond Chang, “‘How ya doin’, mon?’: Coding and Coded Race in World of Warcraft”
- Evelyn Stiller, “Breaking the Code: Are Women’s Voices Heard Online?” [02c]
- Cathie LeBlanc, “Coding Women: Female Avatars in Online Communities”
No doubt all the panels will be fascinating, but these are of particular interest to CCS. More reports to follow.
on October 28th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Updates on all the papers and panels will follow shortly.
on November 20th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Thanks for the mention! SLSA was excellent, well-attended, and the papers on CCS were varied and thoughtful (though I only managed to make it to a few).