Nick Montfort

Person
Residency: 
New York , NY
United States
New York US
Nationality: 
United States
US
Born: 
1972
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Nick Montfort in front of a Commodore 64 running one of his programs.
Short biography: 

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.

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Publisher Year
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 Book (monograph) - print The MIT Press 2012
A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics Alexanderson, Diddle 2005
A Platform Poetics: Computational Art, Material and Formal Specificities, and 101 BASIC Poems Article in an online journal The Digital Review 2021
A Web Reply to the Post-Web Generation Weblog 2019
Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature Other Electronic Literature Organization 2004
Aura in the Age of Computational Production Article in a print journal 2013
Beyond Literary? Conference panel or roundtable 2010
Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature Other Electronic Literature Organization 2005
Carrying across Language and Code Conference paper or presentation, Report or White Paper Trope Tank 2012
Collaborations in E-lit Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal American Book Review 2011
Commenting Creative Code Conference paper or presentation 2012
Computational Editions, Ports, and Remakes of "First Screening" and "Karateka" Conference paper or presentation 2014
Computing Language and Poetry Conference paper or presentation 2012
Continuous Paper Article on the author's website, Conference paper or presentation 2004
Continuous Paper: Print Interfaces and Early Computer Writing Article on the author's website, Conference paper or presentation 2004
Could I Hear That on YouCode? Other In Media Res 2012
Creating: Adventure in Style and The Marble Index in Curveship Conference paper or presentation 2010
Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context Report or White Paper Trope Tank 2012
Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Interactive Narrating Conference paper or presentation Computational Linguistics 2009
Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Narrative Variation Article or chapter in a book University of Nebraska Press 2011

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Events arranged:

Eventsort descending City Date Event type Link to edit content
A Night at the Cybertexts Providence 27.04.2001 Reading
A Night at the Cybertexts Providence 27.04.2001 Performance
Author Function Cambridge 25.01.2018 Exhibition
Autostart: A Festival of Digital Literature Philadelphia 26.10.2006 Festival
Autostart: A Festival of Digital Literature Philadelphia 26.10.2006 Reading
Autostart: A Festival of Digital Literature Philadelphia 26.10.2006 Performance
MACHINE reading series Philadelphia 14.02.2004 Event Series
Taper #1 Cambridge 22.05.2018 Exhibition
The Boston T1 Party at the Boston Public Library Boston 25.04.2001 Reading

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
Author Function Cambridge United States January 25, 2018 to March 21, 2018
Grand Text Auto Exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology Irvine United States October 9, 2007 to December 15, 2007
Grand Text Auto Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum Champaign United States April 14, 2009 to July 26, 2009
Taper #1 Cambridge United States May 22, 2018

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Full Name: 
Nick Montfort
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Elisabeth Nesheim