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
cut to fit the tool-spun course Article in an online journal DHQ Digital Humanities Quarterly 2013
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2000
DAC 2000: A Choose-Your-Own-Trip-Report! Event review or trip report 2000
Developing for New Platforms Roundtable Discussion
Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities Book (monograph) - print The MIT Press 2016
Face It, Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot: Reading and Playing Cadre’s Varicella Conference paper or presentation 2003
Fretting the Player Character Article or chapter in a book The MIT Press 2007
Generating Narrative Variation in Interactiv Fiction Book (Ph.D. dissertation) - online 2007
Grand Text Auto Weblog 2003
Infinite Verse Conference paper or presentation 2019
Interactive Fiction Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2005
Interactive Fiction Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2005
Interactive Fiction Article or chapter in a book Routledge 2012
Interactive Fiction Communities: From Preservation through Promotion and Beyond Article in an online journal Dichtung Digital 2012
Lessons Learned from Designing Children’s Interactive Narratives Conference paper or presentation 2010
Line of Inquiry: Many Authors Explore Creative Computing Through a Short Program Invited lecture 2011
Literature after the Technological Singularity Conference panel or roundtable 2018
New Novel Machines: Nanowatt and World Clock Conference paper or presentation 2014
Platform Studies: Frequently Questioned Answers Conference paper or presentation 2009
Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?” Other 2019

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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Nick Montfort
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Elisabeth Nesheim