Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort's computer-generated books of poetry include #!, the collaboration 2×6, Autopia, and The Truelist, the first in the new Using Electricity series from Counterpath. Among his more than fifty digital projects are the collaborations The Deletionist (with Amaranth Borsuk and Jesper Juul), Sea and Spar Between (with Stephanie Strickland), the translation project Renderings, and the group blog Grand Text Auto, along with his several works of interactive fiction and digital poetry. His collaborations also include the sticker novel Implementation (with Scott Rettberg) and 2002: A Palindrome Story (with William Gillespie). With Ian Bogost, he helped to develop the platform studies approach and edits the corresponding series from MIT Press. He is also editor of the Using Electricity series of computer-generated books from Counterpath. He develops digital artwork for gallery settings and performs livecoding to produce visualizations for musicians. His MIT Press books, collaborative and individual, are The New Media Reader, Twisty Little Passages, Racing the Beam, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, and The Future. He is professor of digital media at MIT and lives in New York and Boston.
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Works contributed to:
Work title | Publication Type | Year |
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The Renewable Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Volumes 1 & 2) | Published on the Web (online journal) | 2019 |
Halfway Through | Print publication | 2013 |
Alone Engaged | Published on the Web (individual site) | 2011 |
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Events arranged:
Event | City | Date | Event type | Link to edit content |
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Taper #1 | Cambridge | 22.05.2018 | Exhibition | |
Author Function | Cambridge | 25.01.2018 | Exhibition | |
Autostart: A Festival of Digital Literature | Philadelphia | 26.10.2006 | Performance | |
Autostart: A Festival of Digital Literature | Philadelphia | 26.10.2006 | Reading | |
Autostart: A Festival of Digital Literature | Philadelphia | 26.10.2006 | Festival | |
MACHINE reading series | Philadelphia | 14.02.2004 | Event Series | |
A Night at the Cybertexts | Providence | 27.04.2001 | Performance | |
A Night at the Cybertexts | Providence | 27.04.2001 | Reading | |
The Boston T1 Party at the Boston Public Library | Boston | 25.04.2001 | Reading |
Curator of:
Title | City | Country | Date |
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Taper #1 | Cambridge | United States | May 22, 2018 |
Author Function | Cambridge | United States | January 25, 2018 to March 21, 2018 |
Grand Text Auto Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum | Champaign | United States | April 14, 2009 to July 26, 2009 |
Grand Text Auto Exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology | Irvine | United States | October 9, 2007 to December 15, 2007 |