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)
Recent collaboration:
Petscii Jetscii,
a game and visual poem for the Commodore 64 that I wrote with
Jesper Juul
for the
BASIC 10 Liner Contest.
You can
play it online in an emulator
and
read our extensive discussion of the code.
Recent Q&A:
On “TNW Answers,”
March 31, 2020.
Recent poem:
“Sonnet Corona.”
There is a
short disucssion of this work
on
Post Position.
Recent post:
Against “Epicenter,”
a discussion of a term used in realtion to COVID-19 and the (confusing) metaphor it projects.
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.
Please note that I am on sabbatical from MIT and will not be on campus again (except very briefly!) until September 2020.
Memory Slam, reimplemented batch-era digital literature, 2014–
Autopia, 2016
The Two + 2×6, a collaboration, 2016
Synchrony, a demoparty, 2016–
Renderings, a collaboration, 2014–2018
Programs at an Exhibition, w/ Päll Thayer, 2014
Nanowatt, w/ Patsy Baudoin + Michael C. Martin, 2013
Three Rails Live, w/ Roderick Coover + Scott Rettberg, 2013
Round, 2013
The Deletionist, w/ Amaranth Borsuk + Jesper Juul, 2013
Concrete Perl, 2011
Sea and Spar Between, w/ Stephanie Strickland, 2011
Taroko Gorge, 2009
Through the Park, 2008
Ream/Rame, w/ Anick Bergeron, 2007
ppg256 series, 2007–2012
Digital Ream + work by Anick Bergeron + Jim Carpenter, 2006
Mystery House Taken Over, w/ Dan Shiovitz + Emily Short, 2005
Book and Volume, 2005
Grand Text Auto, w/ collaborators, 2003-2009
Ad Verbum, 2000
Winchester's Nightmare, 1999
The Help File, 1999
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
