http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress a resource for reading code Tue, 20 May 2008 03:26:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en San Diego will be the site of the Software Studies Initiative. Among the Critical Code Studies blog participants there will be Rita Raley and myself. Wednesday, May 21st, from 12:30-5:00pm, the Software Studies Initiative at UC San Diego invites you to attend a public event: SoftWhere: Software Studies Workshop 2008 ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/05/19/softwhere-software-studies-workshop-at-university-of-california-san-diego-may-21-22/ Jenna Ng sends us the following announcement about an event that considers the threads between the handicraft of needlework and the patchwork of Open Source coding. We look forward to a report from Jenna on the exhibit. Open Source Embroidery: Craft and Code at HTTP Gallery An exhibition facilitated by Ele ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/05/08/stitch-and-switch-open-source-embroidery/ [by Mez] doll_tre[ru]mor[s] = <<TREMORS <tremor name='the_5th_world'> <fracture> <fracture name='post2charinscription'> <polymers> <polymer var='user' val='YourDollUserName'/> <polymer var='3rdperson' val='Your3rdPerson'/> <polymer var='location' val='YourSoddenSelf'/> ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/04/28/_tremdollsr_/ The website for N. Katherine Hayles' latest work New Horizons for the Literary just out from University of Notre Dame Press includes a an essay from David Shapard entitled, "Finding and Evaluating the Code." Shepard is a Ph.D. student who would no doubt fit in well with our work ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/03/13/finding-and-evaluating-the-code-by-david-shepard/ Christy Dena sends us notice that the latest issue of Fibreculture journal has a few papers. All in all, an exciting edition, here are some key titles and abstracts. Cultural Roots for Computing: The Case of African Diasporic Orature and Computational Narrative in the GRIOT System - D. Fox Harrell Continuous Materiality ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/critical-code-studies-texts-in-fibreculture/ This week, Critical Code studies welcomes its latest members, an exciting mix of computer scientists, cyberculture theorists, and electronic artists. Here are the first three: Patrick Burgaud, Greg Elmer, and Elizabeth Swanstrom. More additions later this week. Contact us to join our research group. Patrick Burgaud Patrick Henri ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/3-new-members-of-ccs/ Over at the literary theory blog, The Valve, a reader has posted the CCS Bat Signal, summoning CCS into action. The comment comes in a response to a post about Noah Wardrip-Fruin's new Grand Vet Auto experiment, a reader has suggested: Why not work out a theory of video ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/02/20/ccs_meets_luther_blisset_at_the_valve/ _______________________________________________ 531 - (ch) . amber (ed) k (h) e (a) r (t)nels 07:09am 01/02/2008 _______________________________________________ 15($stiff . ening with fea((c))r(eam)!) 5($limb . less f((l))ailings) 53($swelt . (i)ered.fractures 35($uglin((dr))ess(es) (x) 30($denied . (see)d(s)ire 331($snipped-genital-(pup(a))pets x)))))) object 33($rot-cavity-m(f)o((a)rm)ldings) 3($(flesh . g)r(e)ying . orGa(mete)n(Elles)) 13($let ((form)) 13($get* bindings . b(lind)ody)) ($define! force-promise clammered ($if (not? clammering object (handle-promise-result x))) hammered ($define! handle-promise-result amber ($gene (x y) chambered ((not? (promise? y)) (iambic.pent((up))a)meter (set-(h)eart(h)! (var x) y) ; (set-earth! (var x) ()) ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/02/01/531-ch-amber-ed-k-h-e-a-r-tnels-dnpapercut-herebird/ Books of Note and Java for n00bies One of our projects here at CCS will be to mention books that contribute to Critical Code Studies (adding them to our LibraryThing account). Scott Rosenberg's Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2008/01/11/dreaming-in-code/ We have a growing body of technoculture critics and codework artists joining the Critical Code Studies collaborative Blog. Check out the full list below and consider joining our efforts or let us know about someone who might be interested in this work. CCS Bloggers (see their bios here) ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2007/12/20/critical-code-studies-bloggers/