About Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort develops computational poetry and art, often collaboratively. Recent publications include Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, second edition (MIT Press) along with several computer-generated poetry books: Golem, Hard West Turn, The Truelist, #!, the collaboration 2x6, and Autopia. He has worked to contribute to platform studies, critical code studies, and electronic literature.
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Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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The Truelist
The Truelist is a book-length poem generated by a one-page, stand-alone computer program.
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Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn’t just for the tech-inclined — programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers…and questions…they’ve never seen before.
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Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics.
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New Year’s poem for 2015, “The Era Canto”
Nick Montfort: “I’ve written a New Year’s Poem each year this millennium. This one is a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program.”
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
The phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture, through one line of code.
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The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde
We argue that the Dreamcast hosted a remarkable amount of videogame development that went beyond the odd and unusual and is interesting considerd as avant-garde.
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Riddle and Bind
Riddle & Bind is a book of poems to solve.
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Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Code and Platform in Computational Media”
Adding these neglected levels — programming and computing systems — to digital media studies can help to advance the field.
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS—often considered merely a retro fetish object—is an essential part of the history of video games.
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Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
Nick Montfort’s Twisty Little Passages is the first book-length consideration of interactive fiction, examining it from gaming and literary perspectives.
