Deadline extended to March 25!
Come join us at this nonprofit nexus of creativity, in a program unaffiliated with any AI company, to work with language & computing.
Projects in English, French, & Spanish welcome
www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
My own plan will probably be to work on tiny projects in e.g. BASIC, 6502 assembly, Perl, Python, andor projects that relate to the reimplementation of symbolic storytelling systems from the past 60 years
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A pond and a frog
Are one
A pond and a frog and a sound
Are nothing
We were stopped by police for photographing a sticker on a “bomb-proof trash can” of that sort at that very train station
Today is release v1.0 of Narrative Nubs —
Story generators based on systems from the past 65+ years, capturing essentials, as in “the nub of the argument.”
GESTER, Story Machine, TAILOR, and “Through the Park” nubs are ready for research, teaching, creative practice.
codeberg.org/nickmontfort...
Published today, with US sales through Printer Matter
rrose-editions.com/portfolio/pa...
www.printedmatter.org/catalog/70507
I also have an article about the project overall (this book and the website and museum installation manifestations)
nickm.com/articles/Mon...
Narrative Nubs is a joint project of the MIT Trope Tank https://
tropetank.com and the Computational Narrative Systems node at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen @cdn-bergen.bsky.social
Six contributors made v1.0 possible; see the release note.
Nick Montfort
Deadline to apply is March 11! Come to this self-directed September residency at Banff w/ me, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Kalen Iwamoto
www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
73 years after Roald Dahl warnings and Christopher Strachey's generated love letters, @newyorker.com asks what about AI slop is actually new.
Featuring quotes from CDN's @docmofo.bsky.social and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's OUTPUT book: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
