Nick Montfort

Associate Professor of Digital MediaMIT

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"Taroko Gorge" Printout

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Nick Montfort MIT

June 06, 2012
"Taroko Gorge" Printout My offering is a printout of the first version of “Taroko Gorge,” a simple poetry generator written in Python. This version of the generator was intended as a completed work, but it turned out not to be the last stage of ...
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Could I Hear That on YouCode?

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Nick Montfort MIT

February 09, 2012
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Could I Hear That on YouCode? Sound programming music distribution digital literature demoscene computation Curator's Note The basic idea of this video is to display a series of very short C programs and JavaScript expressions that produce music. Thi ...

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Re: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein

The Competition for Attention

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Nick Montfort MIT

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 — 11:39 pm
Kate, your comparison of Twelve Blue and 88 Constellations is a telling one; there has no doubt been a move toward long-form narrative that invites sampling rather than strongly suggesting a long, involved reading as some of the famous early hypertext nov ...
In Media Res

Re: Could I Hear That on YouCode?

Computation, Collaboration

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Nick Montfort MIT

Thursday, February 9, 2012 — 9:44 pm
Eric, I didn't Google "YouCode" myself, so I'm relieved to see that the top results aren't porn sites or something like that. I do a good deal of computational work and a good deal of collaborative work. I'm glad my practice ...
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Re: Postcard for Artisanal Tweeting

Re: Postcard for Artisanal Tweeting

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Nick Montfort MIT

Friday, August 10, 2012 — 4:29 am
Mark, I particularly enjoy seeing images of your media artifacts whlie knowing that Friedhelm Hillebrand, German inventor and specifier of the SMS format, considered postcards and the number of characters typically written on them as he determined how man ...