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
Hands holding a copy of "Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953 - 2023" edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort on a plain background.
Open pages of "Output" on a plain background. The left page reads: i've never picked a protected flower Everest Pipkin, 2018 A paragraph of text is included over an image of a Unicode poem. The right page features an image of another Unicode poem.
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
I contributed curatorial text about the shell script :(){ :|:&};:
Organizers of the exhibit
The first hall has posters focusing on history & society
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...
Pipe-like, tube-like Unicode characters in different colors & in a grid
Pipe-like, tube-like Unicode characters in different colors & in a grid
Pipe-like, tube-like Unicode characters in different colors & in a grid
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...
This year I won’t make it! Hope it is great for all, though
Orphée, Cocteau
Throne of Blood, Kurosawa
I must go east or west, but I cannot decide
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
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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...
Room full of people in a video game arcade space; we’ve pulled up the screen where START ME UP was shown and are projecting Albert and Henry on the well behind during the Q&A session
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...
I placed this text in a file named “o” (lowercase letter o). Any guesses as to why?
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;
Screenshot of Cayley’s poem: " generating ceasing regular world reading last constantly for reading constantly math of last what if being recognit- -s life breathing recognitions thinking generating saying sa- here to saying regular ceasing word here moving the retur- -nent the ceasing memory images what being here constan- generating recognitions being what expressing thoughts m- -turn life being what thoughts random imagining return be "
John Cayley stages his The code is saying[.js] for the Web
programmatology.com/apps/saying/
Originally presented in print in RUN RUN RUN
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Bad Quarto is pleased to present a new artistic & poetic booklet with short programs and their output
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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.
Launch of Gyms - Kyle Booten with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, lvetta Sunyoung Kang, Nick Montfort TYPE Books 883 Queen St W, Toronto Thursday July 10 7:30pm
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-...
Launch of Gyms - Kyle Booten with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, lvetta Sunyoung Kang, Nick Montfort TYPE Books 883 Queen St W, Toronto Thursday July 10 7:30pm
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/
