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Electronic Writing II
LITR 0210D
CRN:20421

Tuesdays 4-6:20pm
305 Sayles Hall

Lab Thursdays 5-6:20pm
Grad MML

Instructor: Samantha Gorman
office hours:
Tuesdays 1:30-3:45pm
and by appointment
68 1/2 Brown Street, rm 304
Mar 23, 2010
Exercise: Spoetry From the Spam Inbox


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Mar 18, 2010
Reading Week 8


Midterms will now officially take place on the first class after Spring Break.

For next class on Performance/Intervention in Public Real and Virtual Spaces please review the following:

Assignments
1. Examine the following interventions: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/27/news_6103575.html MEZ's discussion of MMOG https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2008-March/000282.html Blast Theory: Uncle Roy All Around http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_uncleroy.html

2. Familiarize yourself with the Second Life Texts of Alan Sondheim http://www.alansondheim.org/echo.txt This is the text of the .echo book, published by Alt-X; and review his comments here: http://www.alansondheim.org/trace.txt
Week 7: Lab


Engage with “PatchWork” girl by Shelly Jackson. Bring up problems of archiving and the dissemination of digital work.


Prepare for Lab
Glance over the critical assessments of “Patchwork Girl” written by past Brown students here: http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/pg/pglinks.html
Mar 9, 2010
Reading week 7


1. Read “Seeing and Writing” by J. David Bolter in New Media Reader pgs.679-689.
2. Read “Responsive Environments” by Myron Krueger

Review:
Read excerpts from Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology in New Media Reader. Focus on “The Pavilion” pg 223-225 and flip through section to view other installation work by E.A.T.

Artist:
Interactive Video Art by Lynn Hershman: /NewMediaReader/1970s/Hershman/index.html
Week 6: Lab


Reminder! net.art Lab.

The Sheridan Center will be here to video tape our class.

Prepare for Lab and/or familiarize yourself with these artists
Review http://karibaily.tumblr.com/, kieran daly's blog dealing with net poetics.
Look at some of Jason Nelson's work: http://www.secrettechnology.com/
Week 5: Assignment


Visit Chap 1. pgs. 1-42 in Hayles, Electronic Literature. Familiarize yourself with the "sub-genres" she defines in Electronic Literature.

In class give a 5 min. review of a project mentioned here or one that is housed at the Electronic Literature Collection: http://collection.eliterature.org/1/. Say what works for you, what doesn't and how it could apply to your own work for this semester. Email with me your choice before Sunday.
Reading week 5


Read the section "You Say You Want a Revolution" by Stuart Moulthrop pgs. 691-703 in The New Media Reader.

Flash Review:
1.From “Computer Lib/Dream Machines” check out the introduction on page 301 and Ted Nelson's early thoughts about “hyper” forms pgs. 314-316 in the New Media Reader.
Also check out the section “Thoughts about Media” pgs.318-319.
2.Skim “Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive” by Ted Nelson in New Media Reader. On pg. 441 “What does it mean that Literature is Debugged?”

Recommended: Frequently Asked Questions about “Hypertext”.
1. http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/holeton__frequently_asked_questions_about_hypertext.html
2.Read “Nonlinearity and Literary Theory” by Espen J. Aarseth pg. 760 in New Media Reader