Nick Montfort
Autopia is a simple text generator that presents language as if it were endless traffic. The headline-style sentences that are produced are made entirely of the names of cars — no other lexemes are used. While the Web version uses a JavaScript port of espeak to do text-to-speech synthesis, it is not necessary to present the work in a gallery setting with sound.
Autopia is available as free software. It is also published in print form, as a book, by Troll Thread, a New York press. It has also been exhibited in galleries.
Nick Montfort
http://nickm.com
MIT
Nick Montfort develops computational art and poetry, often collaboratively. He is associate professor of digital media at MIT and is the principal of the naming firm NNick Montfort develops computational art and poetry. His computer-generated books of poetry include #!, the collaboration 2×6, Autopia, and (forthcoming) The Truelist. Among his more than fifty digital projects are the collaborations The Deletionist, Sea and Spar Between, and Renderings. His MIT Press books, collaborative and individual, are: The New Media Reader, Twisty Little Passages, Racing the Beam, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, and most recently Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. He is professor of digital media at MIT and lives in New York and Boston.omnym. Montfort wrote the books of poems #! and Riddle & Bind, co-wrote 2002: A Palindrome Story, and developed or co-developed more than fifty digital projects including the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between. The MIT Press has published four of his collaborative and individual books: The New Media Reader, Twisty Little Passages, Racing the Beam, and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, with Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities coming in March.