Nick Montfort

The deadline for the September computational writing residency at Banff has been extended to March 25.

Come join us at this nonprofit nexus of creativity, in a program unaffiliated with any AI company, to develop your work with language and computing.

The language of the program is English; your work on French and Spanish projects can also be supported by the faculty

https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/literary-arts/computational-writing-2026

Computational Writing 2026

Explore the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking programming.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Mar 13 at 1:17pmWeb
Show threadNick MontfortMar 13

As an example of the things people will be doing there:

I am likely to be working 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

Working with LLMs is not on my agenda and not expected of or required of participants