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Nick Montfort

@docmofo.bsky.social

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

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In exactly a month —

Picture of me in a sport coat in front of a very impressive bookcase of mine, with text:

Galinsky’s POETRY IN NEW YORK, Thursday August 13, 8-9:30pm, featuring — ME

10 poets, 5 minutes each, a free event

Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St by Ave B

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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 :(){ :|:&};:

The first hall has posters focusing on history & society

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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...

Pipe-like, tube-like Unicode characters in different colors & in a grid

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I must go east or west, but I cannot decide

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

John Cayley stages his The code is saying[.js] for the Web programmatology.com/apps/saying/ Originally presented in print in RUN RUN RUN badquar.to/publications...

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 "

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Friends in Montréal, please join me, Sofian Audry, Bill Kennedy, Erín Moure & Darren Wershler MONDAY MARCH 17 4pm at Concordia for readings from & discussions of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023 milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-eve...

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Body ID Equals Underscore Nick Montfort, 2025 8 pp., 4.25" × 5.5" The full title, and generating code, is the 198-character Web page on the front cover. Laser printed, cardstock cover, pamphlet stitched. 1st printing of 26 signed and lettered copies. $12. badquar.to/publications...

Centerfold of Body ID Equals Underscore with a scattering of characters on two grids of different sizes.

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Canada really respects its poets!

“milk & honey” liquid soap, seen in Toronto

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Anteism has published my NARCISSYSTEM. The text is output from a program that simply describes itself exhaustively, down to the bit level. Smyth sewn, the book has a foil seal on the outside front cover and a special feature on the inside front cover. 48 pp. www.anteism.com/shop/narciss...

Two copies. The left one is closed and shows the foil seal. The right one is partly opened to reveal the mirrored inside front cover.

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

NYC book launch for OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023! With me & @lillianyvonne.bsky.social, @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social, Robin Hill, Stephanie Strickland, Leonard Richardson Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St Monday Dec 9, 8pm Free, but RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

OUTPUT cover, pictures of Lillian-Yvonne & me, list of readers

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This FRIDAY 12/6 here in New York City, I’ll be at the Center for Book Arts Winter Market, 28 W 27th St Floor 7, 4pm-8pm. My Bad Quarto table will have copies of OUTPUT (MIT Press & Counterpath, 2024) and many Bad Quarto publications, including OUR GENERATION (2024). Come buy books or just say hi!

OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (eds. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort) and OUR GENERATION (ed. Nick Montfort)

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Important to always be reminded: Et in arcadia ego

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