Nick Montfort
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Jesper Juul has an amazing new book: Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 ! Just in case you thought I was the only one blogging these days — no, Jesper has a post in which he describes the book and lists talks he is doing about it. In the book, he … Continue reading "Jesper Juul’s Excess Fun & the Commodore 64"
I’m in Canada today — Toronto, specifically — to celebrate the publication of Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. (ed. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Nick Montfort, MIT Press & Counterpath 2024) in conversation with Matt Nish-Lapidus and with a reading by Kavi Davvoori. I haven’t been here very long, and the Output event doesn’t start … Continue reading " Narcissystem "
All the Way for the Win was just published by Penteract Press — today! It’s available for sale from their online store. This book of poetry begins by narrating the birth of the universe and concludes after describing the eradication of the last human-authored poetic text. While it doesn’t deal with everything in between, it’s … Continue reading " All the Way for the Win "
It’s already been a full month since the most recent National Novel Generation Month (NaNoGenMo 2024). I surely should have written up some thoughts sooner. Other computer-generated texts have kept me busy, though! The anthology I edited with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023, was published on November 5 and we’ve been … Continue reading "A Glance…
I’m delighted that after more than four years of work by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and myself — we’re co-editors of this book — the MIT Press and Counterpath have jointly published Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 Book launch events are posted here and will be updated as new ones are scheduled! This anthology spans … Continue reading "The OUTPUT Anthology is Out!"
Taper, an online literary magazine published twice yearly, is now in its 12th issue. An independent editorial collective (Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, and Andy Wallace, for this issue) makes all the decisions about selections, themes for forthcoming issues, and so on, and also handles all communication with authors. … Continue reading "Gram’s…
February 14 is Valentine’s Day for many; this year, it’s also Ash Wednesday for Western Christians, both Orthodox and unorthodox. Universally, it is Harry Mathews’s birthday. Harry, who would have been 94 today, was an amazing experimental writer. He’s known to many as the first American to join the Oulipo. Given the occasion, I thought … Continue reading "Poetix"
Edward Schiappa, Professor of Rhetoric Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media 10 January 2023 [In response to a request, this is an HTML version of a PDF memo for our colleagues at MIT] There has been a noticeable increase in student use of AI assistance for writing recently. Instructors have expressed concerns and have been … Continue reading "Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted…
It’s been a while since I stopped over in Buffalo, but I’m finally unfrozen, and I’m unfreezing my blog, too, to comment a bit on the exhibit I saw — this was the purpose of my brief wintry sojourn — Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art at the Albright-Knox Northland. I visited the … Continue reading "The Engagements of Difference Machines "
If you thought my last post about a 32 byte (plus 2 byte load address) Commodore 64 demo was esoteric, wait until you burrow into this one. Back in March at Lovebyte I released a C64 demo that is a total of 6 bytes. I contrived this one so that the 4b of code ends … Continue reading "A 6 byte Commodore 64 Demo"
