In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

  • from “Random By” (Process on Source), and: From “Una página de Babel” (Process on Source), and: from “Use of Dust” (Process on Source)
  • Nick Montfort (bio)

from “Random By” (Process on Source)

body {
[“quiet at her window”, 6],
[“fuck life”, 1],
[“but harmless”, 1],
   document.body.style.background = “rgb(“ + r + “,” + g + “,” + b + “)”;
          overflow: visible;
}
[“went down”, 3],
<body onload=”go();”>
[“own other living soul”, 1],
[“in the end”, 1],
     g = g - 1;
[“mother rocker”, 1],
      
                {
[“for a blind up”, 1],
                height: 1px;
}
/*]]> */
[“dead one night”, 1],
[“no”, 3],
[“one other living soul”, 4],
<html><head>
[End Page 151]
[“went back in”, 1],
[“saying to herself”, 3],
<title>Random By</title></head>
margin:0;
[“whom else”, 7],
[“and rocked”, 2],
[“facing other windows”, 5],
[“never mind a face”, 1],
[“dead one day”, 1],
[“let down the blind and stopped”, 1],
[“another creature like herself”, 1],
[“head fallen”, 1],
   if (duration > 0) {
[“to and fro”, 1],
</html>
[“all eyes”, 7],
color:#000;
[“was her own other”, 1],
         for (i=0; i<pair[1]; i++) {
[“in the end went down”, 2],
function stream() {
[“closing eyes”, 1],
   pair=distribution.pop();
[End Page 152]
[“to herself”, 5],
[“in the end went back in”, 1],
   }
[“those arms at last”, 2],
[“till the day came”, 2],
[“the day came”, 2],y
[“gone off her head”, 1],
   var pair, i, duration;
   margin: auto;
font-family:sans-serif;
[“all eyes like herself”, 1],
[“at her window”, 6],
}
   streaming = window.setInterval(stream, 1900);
    }
    }
[“in the rocker”, 1],
   return duration;
function parameter() {
<style type=”text/css”>
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8” />
[End Page 153]

From “Una página de Babel” (Process on Source)

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[End Page 156]

[End Page 157]

from “Use of Dust” (Process on Source)

<        Strict
                text
!
         Nick
   modified
 A House of Dust
   a 1967 program by Alison Knowles and James Tenney
   to use,  modify, and
       notice
       THE AUTHOR
        SHALL
     DIRECT SEQUENTIAL DAMAGE
   RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE
           ARISING OUT OF
       PERFORMANCE
   round
   family
   size:14
[End Page 158]
  a
    text
       {
    }
    right
           absolute;
    height
       ground
           thin
    *   *
           text
    material =   SAND
       DUST
       PAPER
[End Page 159]
ROOTS
                  trans
                                 parent
                  trans
                                 parent
             trans
                  parent
                                 trans
                  parent                             LATE
                                                       FACT
                             trans
                                         parent
                                                 OLD
                                                 LACE
                   trans
                                  parent
                                 trans
                                                 parent
                                                                IS
UNDERWATER               =         =                                                         =
=                                             =               
[End Page 160]
=                                                      =                              =
=                                                                     =
=                                                         =   
                                           =
=                                                                                       =
=                                                       =
=                                                                             =
=
   and
   choose
                              choose                         choose   
choose               
                                                choose inhabitants
                  strict
               last   text
                              inner
                                 litany
                         [End Page 161]
   litany
                  litany
   body
                  of
                  Brown
   13 March 2015
   Use
   this erasure
                                                unselect
   all the text and see [End Page 162]

Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort develops computational art and poetry. He teaches at MIT, has a naming firm, Nomnym, and wrote #! and more than fifty digital projects, including collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between. Has has five MIT Press books, with Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities just out.

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