Studio 207 · 20 - 23 November, 10:00am–6:00pm
A Series of Tubes is a 2D, 2KB, HTML5 homage to Windows 95’s Pipes screensaver, licensed under an all-permissive free software license. While Windows 95 is certainly not free software, it did use free/libre/open technologies, including OpenGL, the basis for Pipes.
Nick Montfort’s work includes ten computer-generated books (in print from seven presses), the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between, and dozens of individual digital projects. His latest poetry book, All the Way for the Win, is composed entirely of three-letter words. His MIT Press books include The Future and two co-edited volumes, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. He’s a professor at MIT, principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative, and directs a lab/studio, The Trope Tank. He lives in New York City.