Nick Montfort

@docmofo.bsky.social

Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto

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

I contributed curatorial text about the shell script :(){ :|:&};:Organizers of the exhibitThe first hall has posters focusing on history & society

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...

Computational Writing 2026

Explore the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking programming.

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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

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

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;