Computational Writing Faculty Readings

Program faculty, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort

Join us for an evening of free readings featuring Nick Montfort and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, faculty for the Computational Writing program.

The Computational Writing program allow writers to explore working at the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking computer programming.

Faculty

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM is the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan), Personal Science (Tupelo Press), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press), and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book, Negative Money, is slated for publication in 2023. They are an Associate Professor in the English Department at UMass Boston where they direct the MFA in Creative Writing program. They also direct the Chautauqua Institution Writers’ Festival.

Website lillianyvonnebertram.com/about

Nick Montfort

NICK MONTFORT is a poet and artist who uses computation as his main medium. He seeks to uncover how the material and formal qualities of computing and language are entangled with each other and with culture. His computer-generated books of poetry include #!, World Clock, Megawatt, The Truelist, Hard West Turn, and Golem. His digital projects include his “Taroko Gorge,” a short computational poem that has been the basis for dozens of other projects, and the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between. He is editor of the book series Using Electricity, published by Counterpath, and runs his own micropress, Bad Quarto. He has done work in the context of gallery exhibition and the demoscene, livecodes (programs in performance), and is a rapper and a member of the Society of Spoken Art. He studies creative computing and many types of digital art. His MIT Press books, collaborative and individual, include The New Media Reader, Twisty Little Passages, Racing the Beam, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. He directs a lab/studio, The Trope Tank, and is professor of digital media at MIT. He lives in New York City.

Website nickm.com