Saturday, August 22: Nick Montfort & Thomas Trudgeon

Nick Montfort develops computational art and poetry, often collaboratively. His books of poetry are 2002: A Palindrome Story, a 2002-word palindrome written with William Gillespie and Riddle & Bind, both from Spineless Books; #!, executable poems from Counterpath Press; and 2x6, computational poems developed in collaboration with six translators, forthcoming from Les Figues. He has completed more than 50 individual and collaborative digital media projects, including poetry projects The Deletionist (with Amaranth Borsuk and Jesper Juul) and Sea and Spar Between (with Stephanie Strickland). The MIT Press has published four of his collaborative and individual books, most recently the 10-author collaboration 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. His book Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities is forthcoming from this press. He organizes the Renderings project to translate global computational poetry and writing into English and heads the DIY lab The Trope Tank. Nick is on the faculty at MIT, where he teaches writing and digital media; he lives in New York City.

Tom Trudgeon is a writer/artist/teacher from Northridge. His most recent publications include 'printed ppr img' Gauss PDF and Best American Experimental Writing Wesleyan University Press. He co-edits the art book publication Basic Editions. basic-editions.net - tomtrudgeon.com✋

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Saturday, August 22, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

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