Schedule
JANUARY 6: NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
from J. Yellowlees Douglas, The End of Books-or-Books without End [handout]
A History of the Future of Narrative: Robert Coover from Scott Rettberg on Vimeo.
Eliza/Doctor (1964, Joseph Weizenbaum)
JANUARY 13: HYPERTEXT I: DIGITAL LEXIA
Library of Babel (1941, Jorge Luis Borges)
my body - a wunderkammer (1997, Shelley Jackson with sound by John Wesley Harding and HTML coding by Ken Fricklas)
Patchwork Girl (1995, Shelley Jackson)--CD-ROM!! {continue}
JANUARY 20: HYPERTEXT II: THE STORYSPACE/EASTGATE SCHOOL
Patchwork Girl (1995, Shelley Jackson)--CD-ROM!! {continue}
Ineradicable stain (2008, Shelley Jackson)
JANUARY 27: HYPERTEXT II/NETWORK FICTION I
neatlittleboxes (2008-9, Dominik Pucek, work-in-progress)
from Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
"Introduction" and chapter 1 from David Ciccoricco, Reading Network Fiction
from N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
FEBRUARY 3: NETWORK FICTION II
The Unknown (1998-2002, Scott Rettberg, William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, and Dirk Stratton)
The Big Plot (2009, Paolo Cirio (see press release))
Chapters 2 & 5 from David Ciccoricco, Reading Network Fiction
FEBRUARY 10: NETWORK FICTION III/INTERACTIVE FICTION
The Unknown (1998-2002, Scott Rettberg, William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, and Dirk Stratton) [Cont]
The Big Plot (2009, Paolo Cirio (see press release)) [Cont]
Galatea (2000, Emily Short)
from Nick Montfort, Twisty Little Passages
FEBRUARY 17: EPOETRYS I: VISPO (VISUAL POETRY)
The Dreamlife of Letters (2000, Brian Kim Stephans)
Anipoema/Anipoems (1997, Anna Maria Uribe)
Pages (1969, Aram Saroyan)
"Rhizome" from 1000 Plateaux (Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, 1987)
Collective Paper on GoogleDocs DUE
FEBRUARY 24: EPOETRYS II: FLASH & KINAESTHETIC POETICS
Accounts of the Glass Sky (2002, M.D. Coverley)
Code Movie 1 (2004, Giselle Beiguelman)
Inanimate Alice 1-4 (2005-8, Kate Pullinger and babel)
"Autonomy of Affect" from Parables of the Virtual (Brian Massumi, 2002)
EXTRA CREDIT: Anne Wysocki Lecture & Readings (see 2/23 in grad syllabus)
MARCH 3: DIGITAL POETICS: EXECUTABILES & PROGRAMMATOLOGY
Girl's Day Out (2004, Kerry Lawrynovicz)
riverIsland (2007 (QT), John Cayley)
Transculturation, Transliteracy and Generative Poetics (Simon Biggs, 2008)
Jacques Ranciere, from The Future of the Image, 2003, eponymous ch.,
MARCH 10: HOLIDAY-SPRING BREAK
MARCH 17: LITERAL ART // BORN DIGITAL
Zone:Zero (2008, Stephanie Strickland)
Windsound (1999/2006, John Cayley)
The Jew's Daughter (2000, Judd Morrissey, with contributions from Lori Talley)
Lexia to Perplexia (2000, Talan Memmott)--do not use Safari
EXTRA CREDIT: Attend Strickland Lecture
1st DRAFT of 4 Projects DUE
MARCH 24: PODCAST NARRATIVE
This American Life: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes (2008, NPR)
Student Podcasts DUE
MARCH 31: GAMING // LUDOLOGICAL NARRATIVE
Alexander Galloway, from Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture, 2006, "Allegories of Control"
Student Game Designs DUE
EXTRA CREDIT: Attend Hansen Lecture + Readings
APRIL 7: WEBISODICS
The Strand: Venice, CA (Gearhead Prod.'s)
Quarterlife (2008, Quarterlife@MySpace)
The Big Unknown Project DUE
Student videos ROUGH CUT DUE
APRIL 14: DIGITAL PUBLIC AND MEMOIR
Center for Digital Storytelling (Various authors. Watch all categories: community, education, family, health, identity and place).
Student videos DUE
APRIL 20: Showcase, presentations & PARTY!!!!
FINAL PROJECTS DUE