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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 9, 2010
Reading week 5


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 5: 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 4: 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 4


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