Nick MontfortInterview
Professor of digital media (MIT)
Adapted from Nick Montfort's interview on Uses This, published 29 September 2022. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Recently I've used the NeXTcube I have in the MIT Trope Tank to help a fellow researcher who is doing media archeological work on Mac and Mac-adjacent desktops.
For Bad Quarto, I print things on an Adana Eight-Five platen press, dot-matrix printers, and standard consumer laser printers.
I make artwork using flat panel displays connected to single-board computers, including the Raspberry Pi Zero.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
Media
Storage
On my virtual host, I run Nextcloud as a file server and to sync calendars, contacts, notes, tasks, and such between my computers and phone.