nickm.com . Nick Montfort

poet & professor of digital media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

director, The Trope Tank . curriculum vitae . biography . contact me

all courses . MIT fall 2019 courses: Exploratory Programming . Interactive Narrative

digital poems . if . misc . Post Position (blog) . Nomnym (naming company) . Synchrony (demoparty)

     

• The 2020 Synchrony (the New York City to Montreal “train demoparty”) went wonderfully and results have been posted (also in a text file). Also, all productions are now available for download thanks to the scene.org file archive.
• Upcoming talks: Two in May, at Penn and Knox College. Details to come.
• Please note that I am on sabbatical from MIT and will not be on campus again (except very briefly!) until September 2020.

Nick Montfort, Hard West Turn, Bad Quarto, 2018

The program that generated Hard West Turn

360 video of my reading from Hard West Turn at the Poetic Reseach Bureau, Los Angeles

Nick Montfort, The Truelist, Counterpath, 2017

The program that generated The Truelist

Complete studio recording of The Truelist

360 video of my reading from The Truelist at the Poetic Reseach Bureau, Los Angeles

Nick Montfort, The Future, Essential Knowledge series, MIT Press, 2017

Nick Montfort, Sliders, Bad Quarto, 2017

Nick Montfort, Autopia, Troll Thread, 2016

Nick Montfort, Serge Bouchardon, Carlos León, Natalia Fedorova, Andrew Campana, Aleksandra Malecka, and Piotr Marecki, 2x6, Les Figues, 2016

Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, MIT Press, 2016

Errata sheet for the first printing

Nick Montfort, Megawatt, Bad Quarto, 2014

Nick Montfort, #!, Counterpath, 2014

Nick Montfort, World Clock, Bad Quarto, 2013

Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, 2012

Nick Montfort and Scott Rettberg, Implementation, 2004 (project) / 2012 (book)

Nick Montfort, Riddle & Bind, Spineless Books, 2010

Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, MIT Press, 2009

N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland, eds., The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1, ELO, 2006

Nick Montfort, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, MIT Press, 2003

Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds., The New Media Reader, MIT Press, 2003

Nick Montfort and William Gillespie, 2002: A Palindrome Story, Spineless Books, 2002