Nick Montfort
docmofo.bsky.social
Nick Montfort
@docmofo.bsky.social
Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
I must go east or west, but I cannot decide
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
September 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Awesome time at WordHack in #NYC last night, where we premiered our film START ME UP to a sold-out Wonderville!

Thanks (and CONGRATULATIONS!) to Todd Anderson, founder & host of WordHack, and thanks to director Albert Figurt and star Henry Jenkins for joining us via video for a Q&A
August 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
John Cayley stages his The code is saying[.js] for the Web

programmatology.com/apps/saying/

Originally presented in print in RUN RUN RUN

badquar.to/publications...
August 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I’m reading on July 10, 7:30pm at TYPE Books 883 Queen St W #Toronto with a wonderful group! We’re celebrating the publication of Kyle Booten’s GYMS, I’ll read from my new ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN w/ @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Ivetta Sunyoung Kang
July 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Friends in Montréal, please join me, Sofian Audry, Bill Kennedy, Erín Moure & Darren Wershler MONDAY MARCH 17 4pm at Concordia for readings from & discussions of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023

milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-eve...
March 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Body ID Equals Underscore
Nick Montfort, 2025
8 pp., 4.25" × 5.5"

The full title, and generating code, is the 198-character Web page on the front cover.

Laser printed, cardstock cover, pamphlet stitched.

1st printing of 26 signed and lettered copies.

$12.

badquar.to/publications...
January 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Canada really respects its poets!
January 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Anteism has published my NARCISSYSTEM.

The text is output from a program that simply describes itself exhaustively, down to the bit level.

Smyth sewn, the book has a foil seal on the outside front cover and a special feature on the inside front cover. 48 pp.

www.anteism.com/shop/narciss...
December 21, 2024 at 7:35 PM
NYC book launch for OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023!

With me & @lillianyvonne.bsky.social, @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social, Robin Hill, Stephanie Strickland, Leonard Richardson

Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St

Monday Dec 9, 8pm

Free, but RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 4:44 PM
This FRIDAY 12/6 here in New York City, I’ll be at the Center for Book Arts Winter Market, 28 W 27th St Floor 7, 4pm-8pm.

My Bad Quarto table will have copies of OUTPUT (MIT Press & Counterpath, 2024) and many Bad Quarto publications, including OUR GENERATION (2024). Come buy books or just say hi!
December 2, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Important to always be reminded: Et in arcadia ego
November 29, 2024 at 1:38 AM