Nick Montfort (nickm@nickm.com)
Nick Montfort develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations. Recent books include The Future and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (MIT Press) and several books of computational poetry: 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.
