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Nick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry, develops computer games, and is a critic, theorist, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He contributed to the \u2018Poetry in Motion\u2019 article in the \u2018Live\u2019 Issue.<\/p>\n

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