Montfort Nick

Professor für digitale Medien am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) und Autor. Ph. D. in Computer- und Informationswissenschaft an der University of Pennsylvania, Master in kreativem Schreiben (Poesie) an der Boston University, Master in Medienkunst und -wissenschaften am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) und Bachelor-Abschluss in Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik an der University of Texas in Austin. Leiter des Projekts The Trope Tank, das sich der Entwicklung neuer poetischer Formen und neuem Verständnis digitaler Medien widmet. Interaktive Literaturprojekte und Entwicklung von Poesie-Generatoren.

• Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2021.
• Golem. New Sight series, Portland, Oregon: Dead Alive, 2021.
• The Truelist. Using Electricity series, Denver: Counterpath, 2017.
• The Future. Essential Knowledge series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2017. Translation to Chinese (simplified) forthcoming; translation to Russian forthcoming.
• Autopia. Buffalo, New York: Troll Thread, 2016.
• 2×6. By Nick Montfort, Serge Bouchardon, Carlos León, Natalia Fedorova, Andrew Campana, Aleksandra Małecka, and Piotr Marecki. Global Poetics series. Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2016.
• Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016. Translated to Polish as Odkrywanie kodu: Wprowadzenie do programowania w sztuce i humanistyce Michał Tabaczyński, Mariusz Pisarski, and Adam Ladziński, Krakow: korporacjaha!art, 2018.
• #! Denver: Counterpath, 2014.
• 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. By Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter. Software Studies series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2013.
• Riddle & Bind. Urbana, Illinois: Spineless Books, 2010.
• Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System. By Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost. Platform Studies series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009.
• The Electronic Literature Collection, volume 1. Edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Stephanie Strickland, and Scott Rettberg. CD-ROM and Web anthology with 60 selections and editorial texts. College Park, Maryland: Electronic Literature Organization, 2006. Republished by Notre Dame University Press as the CD-ROM accompanying Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, N. Katherine Hayles, 2008. Republished on USB flash drive by the Electronic Literature Organization in The Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2 (including volume 1), 2013.
• Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003.
• The New Media Reader. Edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort. Book design by Michael Crumpton. CD-ROM design by Nick Montfort. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003.

Artist’s Books

• Hard West Turn, 2018 edition 314 pp.; edition of 13 + 3 artist’s proofs. Boston & New York: Bad Quarto, 2018.
• Megawatt. 246 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bad Quarto, 2014. Translated to German as Megawatt by Hannes Bajohr, 394 pp., Berlin: Frohmann Verlag, 2019.
• World Clock. 239 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bad Quarto, 2013. Translated to Polish as Zegar światowy by Piotr Marecki, 256 pp., Krakow: korporacja ha!art, Liberatura series, 2014.
• Implementation: A Novel. By Nick Montfort and Scott Rettberg. Book design by Adam Richer. 270 pp., 4-color book documenting the 2004 project Implementation. Bergen, Norway: Scott Rettberg, 2012.

Chapbooks & Pamphlets

• 27 Guided Meditations. Malmö, Sweden: Timglaset, forthcoming.
• “From All the Way for the Win.” Part of Seventeen Small Events. Edition of 50. Pamphlet in a set of 17 pamphlets. Calgary, Canada: No Press, April 2020.
• Basho. Edition of 50. Pamphlet. Calgary, Canada: No Press, November 2018.
• From Hard West Turn. Edition of 50. Pamphlet. Calgary, Canada: No Press, September 2018.
• California Diet. Pamphlet. Shropshire, U.K.: Penteract Press, August 2017.
• Type, by Christian Bök and Nick Montfort. Edition of 100. Three letterpress sheets in case. Boston & New York: Bad Quarto, July 2018.
• Sliders. Print on demand. 40 pp. Boston & New York: Bad Quarto, May 2017.
• From All the Way for the Win. Edition of 50. 4 pp. Calgary, Canada: No Press, September 2016.
• The First M Numbers. Edition of 80. 4 pp. Calgary, Canada: No Press, 2013.
• Troper/Schematorium. Edition of 26. 16 pp. Philadelphia: Bad Quarto, 2005.
• Implementation: Selections From a Sticker Novel, by Nick Montfort and Scott Rettberg. 4-color, 32 pp. Photos in this volume by Scott Rettberg. Brigantine, New Jersey: 2004.
• 2002: A Palindrome Story, by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson. Designed by Ingrid Ankerson. 24 pp. Urbana, Illinois: Spineless Books, 2002. Original New Year’s 2002 edition of 202, Philadelphia: Nick Montfort and William Gillespie, January 2002. Full text included in Reflections, ed. Anthony Etherin, Shropshire, U.K.: Penteract Press, 2019.
• Trade Names, by “Nick Montfort and William Gillespie” [1/2 of print run] and “William Gillespie and Nick Montfort” [1/2 of print run]. Edition of 58. Urbana, Illinois: Spineless Books, 2001.

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* 1972 in San Antonio (Texas / USA)
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