The magazine Dear Navigator 1:2/3 includes a new poetry generator, Sea and Spar Between, by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland. Stephanie and I worked on this project for a year, it generates about 225 trillion stanzas, and we’re delighted to see it published in the company of great writing in the School of the Art [...]

“Geração sobre a fala” (“My Generation about Talking,” Nick Montfort) Tradução para o português, Cicero Inacio da Silva. “My Generation about Talking,” a text generator which I first presented at the Software Studies Workshop on May 21, 2008, is now available in Portuguese translation, thanks to Cicero Inacio da Silva. It was made for use [...]

[English follows...] L’élève frappe à la porte du professeur.Elle la rejette.L’impolitesse entraîne l’impolitesse. Le procureur regarde l’agresseur.Elle le réconforte.L’un des deux voit son espoir brisé. Mon générateur d’histoires “The Two” est désormais en ligne avec une traduction française, “Les deux” , de Serge Bouchardon. La version anglaise était auparavant disponible en Python. C’était le second [...]

My latest Perl Poetry Generator in 256 Characters, ppg256-4, is my first one created specifically for a gallery setting. Although shown here in my office, it’s now on display at the Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media in Boston in the show Pulling Back the Curtain, which runs through September 27. Since 2007, I [...]

Adam Parrish recently taught a class at NYU in the ITP program: Digital Writing with Python. I was very interested to learn about it and to see documentation of the final reading/performance, with some links to students’ blog entries about their projects. Here at MIT, I teach a class called The Word Made Digital in [...]