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Calendar for course
| Week |
Topic
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Readings
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1 |
Introduction: Culture and/as Technology |
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2 |
Early Visual Writing/Formalist Experiments |
Simias Rhodius, "Wings of Eros in Theocritus / Eidullia Theokritou Triakonta" 1516 George Herbert, "Easter Wings / The Temple," 1633 |
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3 |
Modernism and the Avant-Garde: Industrialising Culture |
Marinetti: Futurist Manifesto Apollinaire:"L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes" |
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5 |
The Atomic Age: Mid-century Writing I French Letterists:1940-1970s |
Gabriel Pomerand: from “Saint Ghetto des Prets,” 1949 Alain Satie: from “Ecrit en Prose,” 1971 |
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6 |
The Atomic Age: Mid-century Writing II Concrete Writing and Conceptual Writing |
Dom Sylvester Houedard: "Linga Chakra" John Furnival: The Tower Poems Harry Matthews, “The Dormouse Poem” Dan Graham: Schema, 1966 |
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7 |
Postmoderisms: Early Multimedia Experiments |
Lawrence Weiner: “ Tracce/Traces” 1970 George Brecht: “Events” 1961 |
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8 |
The Digital Era: Hypertext and Digital Genres |
Shelley Jackson: Patchwork Girl, 1995 |
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9 |
Exploring Networks: The Web Emerges
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The text as database: Various Blogs, online journals, Flickr photoblogs |
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10 |
Electronic Multimedia I: Machine Generated Texts |
Janet Zweig: “Mind Over Matter” 1993 |
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11 |
Electronic Multimedia II: Digital Poetry
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Darren Wershler-Henry: “Apostrophe” 1994; “Grain: A Prairie Poem” 1998 Neil Hennessy, “Jabber,” 2001 Brian Kim Sefans: “Dreamlife of Letters,” 2001 Joyce, Hanlon, Morris and Guyer, “Sonatas of Saint Francis” Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg, “The Apartment” |
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12 |
Electronic Multimedia III: Virtual Worlds |
Second Life Alpha World |
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13 |
Review |
