Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort is an American computer scientist and poet who is a professor of digital media at Massachusetts Institute of… more
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Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @dtemkin.bsky.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum
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Can You Code With Pictures? Esoteric Languages Challenge How We Code
Esoteric languages spark creativity by challenging conventional coding. Daniel Temkin is writing codes to confront the lack of creativity in AI code.
spectrum.ieee.org
A teaser trailer for START ME UP, a short film by Albert Figurt & Nick Montfort (that’s me), is now online
nickm.com/collab/figur...
nickm.com/collab/figur...
Start Me Up
nickm.com
Awesome time at WordHack in #NYC last night, where we premiered our film START ME UP to a sold-out Wonderville!
Thanks (and CONGRATULATIONS!) to Todd Anderson, founder & host of WordHack, and thanks to director Albert Figurt and star Henry Jenkins for joining us via video for a Q&A
Thanks (and CONGRATULATIONS!) to Todd Anderson, founder & host of WordHack, and thanks to director Albert Figurt and star Henry Jenkins for joining us via video for a Q&A
Reposted by Nick Montfort
happy to be in this wonderful anthology of coded poetry edited by @docmofo.bsky.social
My & Albert Figurt’s short film START ME UP will have its world premiere on August 21, 2025 at 7pm at WordHack, Wonderville, in the Brooklyn part of #NYC
nickm.com/collab/figur...
nickm.com/collab/figur...
Start Me Up
nickm.com
I placed this text in a file named “o” (lowercase letter o). Any guesses as to why?
w () { s=($1); echo -n ${s[$RANDOM%5]}; }
s () { echo -n "$1 "; }
w "old still dim calm wide"; s; w "pond tree log cave fen"; echo; \
s "frog"; w "jumps swims looks drops flicks"; s; w "in out past up off"; \
echo; w "splish drip glint hum sob"; echo;
s () { echo -n "$1 "; }
w "old still dim calm wide"; s; w "pond tree log cave fen"; echo; \
s "frog"; w "jumps swims looks drops flicks"; s; w "in out past up off"; \
echo; w "splish drip glint hum sob"; echo;
John Cayley stages his The code is saying[.js] for the Web
programmatology.com/apps/saying/
Originally presented in print in RUN RUN RUN
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programmatology.com/apps/saying/
Originally presented in print in RUN RUN RUN
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Bad Quarto is pleased to present a new artistic & poetic booklet with short programs and their output
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badquar.to/publications...
Run Run Run
A zine with short text-generating computer programs and their outputs.
badquar.to
At the #NYC Swiss Institute last Saturday, a great performance by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social & davidebalula.com documented a bit although not captured in this nice article in Jacket2 — with some product placement for the OUTPUT anthology!
jacket2.org/commentary/A...
jacket2.org/commentary/A...
Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Intelligent Artifice and the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence | Jacket2
jacket2.org
A new OA article, this one in Global Hip Hop Studies. I discuss hip hop visions of the future, with a strong focus on two albums from 2000 & their lyrical content
www.doi.org/10.1386/ghhs...
www.doi.org/10.1386/ghhs...
Rap beyond the Afterfuture | Intellect
A comparison of two visions of the future from the year 2000: Deltron 3030 by the trio of the same name and Welcome to the Afterfuture by Mike Ladd. Many aspects of these albums are considered, includ...
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Just finished an @elo2025.bsky.social workshop using codeberg.org/nickmontfort... — a *very* short program to not only explain some about Markov chain generation, but also to allow people to use different documents for generation, try different parameters, and make modifications to the code.
frag
Generate a text by using a Markov process on a specified file
codeberg.org
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From an anthology of computer-generated text to a model for the equitably resilient city, MIT News's 2025 Summer Reading List includes 12 Press books from MIT authors: news.mit.edu/2025/summer-...
Summer 2025 reading from MIT
A summer reading list features books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2024 to June 2025.
news.mit.edu
by Nick Montfort — Reposted by Nick Montfort
I’m reading on July 10, 7:30pm at TYPE Books 883 Queen St W #Toronto with a wonderful group! We’re celebrating the publication of Kyle Booten’s GYMS, I’ll read from my new ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN w/ @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Ivetta Sunyoung Kang
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"Sonnets"-- Issue 14 of Taper is OUT.Read it, get inspired, submit to #15 here: taper.badquar.to/14 #DigitalPoetry #ElectronicLiterature #CreativeCoding #LitJournal #OnlineLitMag #CodeArt #InteractivePoetry
@wolfchirp.bsky.social @geryon.bsky.social @leoflores.bsky.social @docmofo.bsky.social
@wolfchirp.bsky.social @geryon.bsky.social @leoflores.bsky.social @docmofo.bsky.social
In France they say “un café allongé”
It’s an americano in Toronto
#poem
It’s an americano in Toronto
#poem
Taper #14 : Sonnets is now out! This issue has 28 diverse works of computational poetry (broadly imagined), and, as always, they are all free software for you to study, share, and modify. Many thanks to the authors & editors
taper.badquar.to/14/
taper.badquar.to/14/
Taper #14
taper.badquar.to
An MIT publication with some coverage of my general concerns & recent work
betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/iss...
betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/iss...
The Art of Computer Programming
MIT professor Nick Montfort SM ’98 brings poetry and computer programming together with artistic results
betterworld.mit.edu
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PhD fellowship advertised here at the Center for Digital Narrative to research Computational Narrative Systems with @docmofo.bsky.social - applications due August 15! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellowship in Digital Culture with the Center for Digital Narrative (280653) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Digital Culture with the Center for Digital Narrative (280653), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
Yes, but my reply bounced and I didn’t manage to connect on Mastodon until just recently — glad to hear from you there & thanks for your interest!
In less than two days, Allison Parrish’s book TWO OF PENTACLES, published by Nothing to Say, will be launched! I’m delighted that I’ll be reading at the event #NYC
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Two of Pentacles Release Party
We are excited to invite you to a special evening celebrating the release of Two of Pentacles by Allison Parish!
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A collection of computer-generated poems from the turn of the century — coming in August in the MIT Press series Hardcopy, which I edit with @maryflanagan.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255286...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255286...
The Complete Stein Poems
The Stein poems of Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) were written between 1998 and 2003. Comprising more than 500 pages of text, this edited series of 161 po...
mitpress.mit.edu
Reposted by Nick Montfort
OUTPUT at the Illinois State University AI & the Humanities Symposium! @docmofo.bsky.social
My & Patsy Baudoin’s French/English text-generating installation will be part of the show at Jeu de Paume in Paris, April 11 – September 21. The public opening is April 10!
jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...
jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...
Exposition : Le monde selon l'IA - Jeu de Paume
Les IA génératives en art, photographie, cinéma, littérature et musique suscitent étonnement, frayeur, enthousiasme ou scepticisme.
jeudepaume.org
No foolin', @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & I are doing a *free* and *public* event about our anthology OUTPUT in #Baltimore this Saturday at 11:30am —
CityLit Festival
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Hanover Suite A, Mezzanine
www.citylitproject.org/event/the-li...
CityLit Festival
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Hanover Suite A, Mezzanine
www.citylitproject.org/event/the-li...
CityLit Festival presents The Literary Life of AI: Output Through the Years – CityLit Project
www.citylitproject.org
Friends in Montréal, please join me, Sofian Audry, Bill Kennedy, Erín Moure & Darren Wershler MONDAY MARCH 17 4pm at Concordia for readings from & discussions of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023
milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-eve...
milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-eve...
Readings from & discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer Generated Text, 1953–2023 at MIT!
Tuesday March 11
5pm
Stata Center, 32-155
Free & open to the public
Book sales thanks to the MIT Press Bookstore
mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-0...
Tuesday March 11
5pm
Stata Center, 32-155
Free & open to the public
Book sales thanks to the MIT Press Bookstore
mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-0...
Author Event: Output with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort
Bookstore specializing in books and journals published by the MIT Press as well as a curated selection of other publishers’ books in related fields, including art and architecture, computer science, c...
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