Nick Montfort Articles

As part of MIT Sounding, Haitian rapper, poet and singer BIC performs his work in collaboration with Jean Appolon Expressions, a Cambridge-based Haitian contemporary dance company. Photo by Caroline Alden.

Performer BIC Shares the Joy of Music and Poetry to Promote Social Equity

The Haitian poet and rapper discusses the rich outcomes of a week-long residency at MIT. Can art, poetry and music generate social change? That question was  enthusiastically explored this April during a visiting artist residency with Haitian poet and rapper … Continued

A row of five small old computers.
Nick Montfort’s five Commodore 64 programs running on five of the taupe keyboard-and-CPU units. Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 2014. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

#!/usr/bin/perl; print “Nick Montfort reads #! and other computational poems at the List \n”;

Samuel Johnson’s shortsighted critique of Tristram Shandy, an 18th century novel unmatched in its day for its experimental use of typographic layout and print technology, was that “nothing odd will do long.” Nick Montfort’s new book of poems #! (pronounced … Continued