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 ascending Publication Type Publisher Year
DAC 2000: A Choose-Your-Own-Trip-Report! Event review or trip report 2000
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2000
cut to fit the tool-spun course Article in an online journal DHQ Digital Humanities Quarterly 2013
Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Narrative Variation Article or chapter in a book University of Nebraska Press 2011
Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Interactive Narrating Conference paper or presentation Computational Linguistics 2009
Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context Report or White Paper Trope Tank 2012
Creating: Adventure in Style and The Marble Index in Curveship Conference paper or presentation 2010
Could I Hear That on YouCode? Other In Media Res 2012
Continuous Paper: Print Interfaces and Early Computer Writing Article on the author's website, Conference paper or presentation 2004
Continuous Paper Article on the author's website, Conference paper or presentation 2004
Computing Language and Poetry Conference paper or presentation 2012
Computational Editions, Ports, and Remakes of "First Screening" and "Karateka" Conference paper or presentation 2014
Commenting Creative Code Conference paper or presentation 2012
Collaborations in E-lit Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal American Book Review 2011
Carrying across Language and Code Conference paper or presentation, Report or White Paper Trope Tank 2012
Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature Other Electronic Literature Organization 2005
Beyond Literary? Conference panel or roundtable 2010
Aura in the Age of Computational Production Article in a print journal 2013
Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature Other Electronic Literature Organization 2004
A Web Reply to the Post-Web Generation Weblog 2019

Curator of:

Titlesort ascending City Country Date
Taper #1 Cambridge United States May 22, 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
Author Function Cambridge United States January 25, 2018 to March 21, 2018

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Full Name: 
Nick Montfort
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Elisabeth Nesheim