Tomorrow the short film Albert Figurt & I made entirely on the Windows 95 desktop will have its European premiere at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Norway — 12noon! nickm.com/collab/figur...

We were stopped by police for photographing a sticker on a “bomb-proof trash can” of that sort at that very train station

Today is release v1.0 of Narrative Nubs — Story generators based on systems from the past 65+ years, capturing essentials, as in “the nub of the argument.” GESTER, Story Machine, TAILOR, and “Through the Park” nubs are ready for research, teaching, creative practice. codeberg.org/nickmontfort...

73 years after Roald Dahl warnings and Christopher Strachey's generated love letters, @newyorker.com asks what about AI slop is actually new. Featuring quotes from CDN's @docmofo.bsky.social and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's OUTPUT book: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

◯🖌️ A pond and a frog Are one A pond and a frog and a sound Are nothing

Deadline extended to March 25! Come join us at this nonprofit nexus of creativity, in a program unaffiliated with any AI company, to work with language & computing. Projects in English, French, & Spanish welcome www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Published today, with US sales through Printer Matter rrose-editions.com/portfolio/pa... www.printedmatter.org/catalog/70507

Deadline to apply is March 11! Come to this self-directed September residency at Banff w/ me, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Kalen Iwamoto www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

I'm one of five who has each written briefly on this topic for LARB https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-intelligence-literary-future-chatgpt-large-language-model

We often think of computers as numerical devices, but part of the history of computing is also found in how computers manipulate language. "Output" showcases seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981... @docmofo.bsky.social

At UNESCO World Headquarters in Paris, the Source Code exhibition features 15 influential items — including a 12-byte bash script by security researcher lcamtuf & a forgotten contributor

The Word-Unit Palindrome (repeats by word, not character) that @docmofo.bsky.social nominated for my 2012 Ymmy — now animated. #algorithmicArt #WordUnitPalindrome

Apply before March 11 for this AMAZING* residency at Canada’s Banff Centre, where @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social is director of literary arts! * I’m biased, but — @lillianyvonne.bsky.social and I were at the first one; Kalen Iwamoto’s work is awesome www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Enjoy my screensaver-like artwork “A Series of Tubes” nickm.com/poems/tubes.... More info on this is at the PIKSEL25 site. It will be in this festival that starts tomorrow 25.piksel.no/projects/a-s...

Dead Alive seeks innovative manuscripts (including, no doubt, computer-generated ones) to publish in 2026 www.deadalivemagazine.com/calls/call-f...

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.