Overview

Schedule

Assignments

Study Materials

Projects

 

9/25/01 Introduction
Recommended Readings: Stephanie Strickland, "The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot
9/27/01 Storyspace and Eastgate

Readings Due: Judy Malloy, l0ve 0ne

Recommended Readings: Judy Malloy works

10/2/01 Readings Due: J. Yellowlees Douglas, I Have Said Nothing
Mary Kim Arnold, Lust (Eastgate texts
10/4/01 Print Hypertexts
Readings Due: Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths"  and "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" (Note: To print the stories, set margins to about .25" and change orientation from "portrait" to "landscape.") 

Recommended Readings: Artists's books (library reserve reading)
Browse Marzenna and Julius Donajski, "Garden of Forklike Paths" 

10/9/01 Readings Due: Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
 
10/11/01 Readings Due: Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters, conclusion 
 
10/16/01 Permutations: Combinatorial Writing and Collage

“multiple fragments which are assembled under a new law” 
- Walter Benjamin 
Readings Due: Espen Aarseth, “The Cyborg Author,” from Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Permutations; Raymond Queneau, "A Fairytale As You Like It" and "100,000,000,000,000 Poems
Selections from Oulipo (especially Harry Matthews, “The Poet’s Eye”) 

Recommended Readings: Stéphane Susana, "A Roundup of Constrained Writing on the Web"; Browse Oulipo site; in French, browse Stéfan Sinclair's Oulipo ("the Workshop of potential computer literature [Ouvroir de Littérature Informatique Potentiel] is my little way of grouping together a variety of projects that bring together notions of Oulipo and of computers") 
I Ching
RACTER FAQ (about the supposed text-generation program) 
HyperPo (software for text exploration and analysis) 

10/18/01 Transcriptions TA tech training 
Regular class canceled for conference
10/23/01 Readings Due: Brion Gysin, Cut-Ups Self-Explained
The Cut-up Technique (Burroughs) and The Cut-up Machine
Helen Thorington (with M.R. Petit and John Neilson) Solitaire
The Assoziations Blaster
Nam June Paik video screen installations: Guggenheim; Smithsonian and Megatron / Matrix installation 

Recommended Readings: Examples of Dada and Surrealist Collage; Ian Campbell, Glimpses of an Afternoon and Mechanos Organos 

10/25/01 Interactive Fiction and Text Adventure Games
Readings Due: Nick Montfort, Winchester’s Nightmare
Espen Aarseth, "Intrigue and Discourse in the Adventure Game," from Cybertext

Recommended Readings: Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
Gaming Links: Game Studies; Interactive Fiction Research Library; Interactive Fiction & Adventure Games; Open Directory: Interactive Fiction; CNET Gamecenter

10/30/01 Links and Linking
Chat Session with Jeff Parker Readings Due: Jeff Parker, "A Long Wild Smile"
11/1/01 Readings Due: Stuart Moulthrop, "Living and Writing in Broken Space"

Recommended Readings: Browse Stuart Moulthrop's website

11/6/01 Narrative
“there is no story for 
which the question 
as to how it continued would not 
be legitimate” 
- Walter Benjamiun
Readings Due: Olia Lialina, "My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
Lialina remediations
Raine Koskimaa, “Visual Structuring of Hypertext Narratives” 
11/8/01 Readings Due: Matthew Miller, “Trip
11/13/01 Visual & Computer Poetry
Readings Due: Aram Saroyan poems, especially 15-30 
Emmett Williams, "Like Attracts Like
Miekal And, "Mesostics for Dick Higgins
Eduardo Kac, Holopoetry 
Geniwate, "Rice

Recommended Readings: Browse Brazilian Digital Poetry

11/15/01 Readings Due: Jim Rosenberg, Interactive Works
David Knoebel, Click Poetry: Words in Space
Jose B. Chua, Synchronicity 
John Cayley

Recommended Readings: Visible Language links

11/20/01 Animation: Flash and Javascript
Note: be sure to turn up the sound to read most of these texts

Readings Due: Dan Waber, Strings
Thom Swiss and Skye Giordano, Genius
Jason Nelson, clone, cube, and frostbite2
Poems that Go

Recommended Readings: Young-Hae Chang, Heavy Industries

11/29/01 Readings Due: Mez, "_the data][h!][bleeding texts_"

Recommended Readings: Reiner Strasser, Re: The Virtual Affair

12/4/01 Code, Code Poetry, and Software Art
Readings Due: Talan Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia

Recommended Readings: Florian Cramer, "Program Code Poetry"
and "and" (perl poem) 


 

The *system* is the art, not the output, not the visual screen, and not the code. I want to let the data express itself in the most beautiful possible way. 

- Net artist Lisa Jevbratt, rhizome.org