1. Nick Montfort is a poet and professor of digital media at MIT, where he directs a lab called The Trope Tank.
13 Facts About Nick Montfort
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Nick Montfort holds a part-time position at the University of Bergen where he leads a node on computational narrative systems at the Center for Digital Narrative.
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Nick Montfort's work includes digital projects, many of them in the form of short programs.
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Nick Montfort has done a complete studio recording reading The Truelist, available at PennSound.
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Nick Montfort collaborated with six others on 2x6, a book published by Les Figues that includes six short programs and some of the short narrative poems these generate in English, Spanish, French, Polish, Japanese, and Russian.
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Several of Nick Montfort's printed computer-generated books were generated with programs he wrote during National Novel Generation Month.
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Nick Montfort is the founder and series editor of Using Electricity, a series of computer-generated books published by Counterpath.
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In November 2019 Nick Montfort announced "Nano-NaNoGenMo," calling for short computer programs within that year's National Novel Generation Month.
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Nick Montfort's request was that people write programs of 256 characters or less to generate novels of 50,000 words or more.
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Nick Montfort contributed several such programs himself, as did several others.
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Nick Montfort has written about interactive fiction and written several interactive fiction games.
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The group blog Grand Text Auto, active in the early 2000s, was one site where Nick Montfort wrote with others about digital media.
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Nick Montfort wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection: Volume 1 and The New Media Reader during that time.