Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @dtemkin.bsky.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...

A teaser trailer for START ME UP, a short film by Albert Figurt & Nick Montfort (that’s me), is now online nickm.com/collab/figur...

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

happy to be in this wonderful anthology of coded poetry edited by @docmofo.bsky.social

My & Albert Figurt’s short film START ME UP will have its world premiere on August 21, 2025 at 7pm at WordHack, Wonderville, in the Brooklyn part of #NYC nickm.com/collab/figur...

w () { s=($1); echo -n ${s[$RANDOM%5]}; } s () { echo -n "$1 "; } w "old still dim calm wide"; s; w "pond tree log cave fen"; echo; \ s "frog"; w "jumps swims looks drops flicks"; s; w "in out past up off"; \ echo; w "splish drip glint hum sob"; echo;

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...

Bad Quarto is pleased to present a new artistic & poetic booklet with short programs and their output badquar.to/publications...

At the #NYC Swiss Institute last Saturday, a great performance by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social & davidebalula.com documented a bit although not captured in this nice article in Jacket2 — with some product placement for the OUTPUT anthology! jacket2.org/commentary/A...

A new OA article, this one in Global Hip Hop Studies. I discuss hip hop visions of the future, with a strong focus on two albums from 2000 & their lyrical content www.doi.org/10.1386/ghhs...

Just finished an @elo2025.bsky.social workshop using codeberg.org/nickmontfort... — a *very* short program to not only explain some about Markov chain generation, but also to allow people to use different documents for generation, try different parameters, and make modifications to the code.

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

From an anthology of computer-generated text to a model for the equitably resilient city, MIT News's 2025 Summer Reading List includes 12 Press books from MIT authors: news.mit.edu/2025/summer-...

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

"Sonnets"-- Issue 14 of Taper is OUT.Read it, get inspired, submit to #15 here: taper.badquar.to/14 #DigitalPoetry #ElectronicLiterature #CreativeCoding #LitJournal #OnlineLitMag #CodeArt #InteractivePoetry @wolfchirp.bsky.social @geryon.bsky.social @leoflores.bsky.social @docmofo.bsky.social

In France they say “un café allongé” It’s an americano in Toronto #poem

Taper #14 : Sonnets is now out! This issue has 28 diverse works of computational poetry (broadly imagined), and, as always, they are all free software for you to study, share, and modify. Many thanks to the authors & editors taper.badquar.to/14/

An MIT publication with some coverage of my general concerns & recent work betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/iss...

PhD fellowship advertised here at the Center for Digital Narrative to research Computational Narrative Systems with @docmofo.bsky.social - applications due August 15! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

In less than two days, Allison Parrish’s book TWO OF PENTACLES, published by Nothing to Say, will be launched! I’m delighted that I’ll be reading at the event #NYC www.eventbrite.com/e/two-of-pen...

A collection of computer-generated poems from the turn of the century — coming in August in the MIT Press series Hardcopy, which I edit with @maryflanagan.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255286...

OUTPUT at the Illinois State University AI & the Humanities Symposium! @docmofo.bsky.social

You can't be gangsta without angst

My & Patsy Baudoin’s French/English text-generating installation will be part of the show at Jeu de Paume in Paris, April 11 – September 21. The public opening is April 10! jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...

No foolin', @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & I are doing a *free* and *public* event about our anthology OUTPUT in #Baltimore this Saturday at 11:30am — CityLit Festival Lord Baltimore Hotel Hanover Suite A, Mezzanine www.citylitproject.org/event/the-li...

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...

Readings from & discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer Generated Text, 1953–2023 at MIT! Tuesday March 11 5pm Stata Center, 32-155 Free & open to the public Book sales thanks to the MIT Press Bookstore mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-0...

On the Off Center podcast of @cdn-bergen.bsky.social, Scott Rettberg interviews me & @lillianyvonne.bsky.social about the book we edited, Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 podscan.fm/podcasts/off...

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...

Canada really respects its poets!

Friends in Toronto, please join me & two OUTPUT contributors to launch the anthology on Monday 6pm Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Today my book of poems ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN was published by Penteract Press: penteractpress.com/store/all-th... It begins with the birth of the universe & concludes with the eradication of the last human-authored poetic text. And it consists entirely of three-letter words.

My New Year’s poem for 2025 is up at: nickm.com/poems/ny2025/ So far, no one has ventured a guess as to why it’s called “The Hours.”

Just wrote about the 2024 National Novel Generation Month, which wrapped up on November 31 nickm.com/post/2025/01...

Six of my poems from ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN appear in the just-published issue 24.4 of DIAGRAM — thediagram.com/24_4/montfor... They consist entirely of three-letter words.

Taper #13 : Superstitions (the Fall 2024 issue) is out! taper.badquar.to/13/ A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither. The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.

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...

Lookie here! Two of my @mitpress.bsky.social books made the list, both from the Platform Studies series www.polygon.com/deals/499835...

New on the MIT Press Reader: selections from "Output," a new anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT, with additional commentary from @docmofo.bsky.social

The Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social is hosting a book launch on Friday at 15:30 CET for @docmofo.bsky.social & Lillian-Yvonne Bertrand's new anthology of computer-generated texts from the last 70 years. I am really looking forwards to seeing this book! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17449...

The book launch of Output will be streamed to the CDN YouTube account as well if you can't be in Bergen on Friday at 15:30. Nick @docmofo.bsky.social and Lillian-Yvonne will both be present. www.youtube.com/live/ttnEp8Z...

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...

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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!

OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (co-edited w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) is out from @mitpress.bsky.social & Counterpath! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981... It’s been awesome to encounter texts & many author/programmers over the years. Glad to share this joy via this book!

For 2024 #NaNoGenMo: THE FALL, an offhand, single-page tribute to Thomas E. Kurtz (February 22, 1928 — November 12, 2024). He was co-creator of #BASIC and made computing accessible to millions, including me. Program, in Yabasic: nickm.com/code/fall.yab Sample PDF: nickm.com/poems/the_fa...

You don't want to miss this book! OUTPUT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF COMPUTER GENERATED TEXT, 1953-2023, edited by @lillianyvonne.bsky.social and Nick Montfort, and published by @mitpress.bsky.social): mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981...