{"id":6,"date":"2005-08-17T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T02:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/schedule\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T18:47:03","slug":"schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WEEK ONE &#8211; INTRODUCTION TO TEXTUAL MEDIA<\/strong>     <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, August 30<\/strong> \t<\/p>\n<p> What is Textual media? Digital Textuality? New Media? What about the technical stuff? <a href=\"http:\/\/itusupport.gmu.edu\/student.asp\">Email<\/a>, blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/mason.gmu.edu\/%7Emontecin\/create9.htm\">web accounts<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-2.org\/commissions_wordperhect.html\">Word Perhect<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/BUST_DOWN_THE_DOORS%21.html\">Bust Down the Doors!<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/ALL_FALL_DOWN.html\">All Fall Down<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, September 1<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Espen Aarseth, <em>Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature<\/em>, pages 1-23, found in the course reader (CR)<\/li>\n<li>Jay David Bolter, <em>Writing Space<\/em>, pages 23-26, 40-46, and 91-98 (CR)<\/li>\n<li>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/grandtextauto.gatech.edu\/2005\/08\/12\/clarifying-ergodic-and-cybertext\/#comment-68636\">debate on Grand Text Auto<\/a> about Aarseth&#8217;s neologisms (&quot;cybertext&quot; and &quot;ergodic&quot;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevrowe.info\/Poems\/QueneauRandom.htm\">A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems<\/a> by Raymond Queneau is a famous example of what Aarseth calls a &quot;cybertext&quot; <\/li>\n<li>Aarseth thinks of texts as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Labyrinth_1_%28from_Nordisk_familjebok%29.png#file\">labyrinths<\/a> or mazes<\/li>\n<li>The book <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.obs-us.com\/obs\/english\/books\/holt\/books\/maze\/\">Maze<\/a>, by Christopher Mason (1985)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>       WEEK TWO &#8211; LEARNING FROM OLD MEDIA<\/strong>     <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, September 6<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Italo Calvino, <em>If on a Winter&rsquo;s Night a Traveler<\/em>, pages 1-90<\/li>\n<li>Scott McCloud on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/comics\/carl\/3a\/02.html\">Filling in Narrative Gaps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, September 8<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>If on a Winter&rsquo;s Night a Traveler<\/em>, pages 91-131<\/li>\n<li>Workshop on links and navigation, including an introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/mason.gmu.edu\/%7Emontecin\/create9.htm\">setting up your own webspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/11\/exploratory-writing-on-calvino\/\">Exploratory Writing on Calvino<\/a> Assigned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> \t WEEK THREE &#8211; READERS AND WRITERS<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, September 13<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>If on a Winter&rsquo;s Night a Traveler<\/em>, pages 132-209<\/li>\n<li>* Exploratory Writing  on Calvino due *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, September 15<\/strong>     <\/p>\n<ul> <em>If on a Winter&rsquo;s Night a Traveler<\/em>, pages 210-259 <\/ul>\n<p><strong>  WEEK FOUR &#8211; CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, September 20<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marie-Laure Ryan, <em>Narrative as Virtual Reality<\/em>, pages 204-224 (CR)<\/li>\n<li>* Exploratory Writing on Calvino (revised ) due *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, September 22<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Narrative as Virtual Reality<\/em>, pages 242-270 (CR)<\/li>\n<li><em>Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>   WEEK FIVE &#8211; INTERACTIVE FICTION<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, September 27<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Montfort, <em>Twisty Little Passages<\/em>, pages 95-117 (CR)<\/li>\n<li>To Play: <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifiction.org\/games\/play.php?game=1&#038;mode=html\">Adventure<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thcnet.net\/zork\/index.php\">Zork<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In Class: <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/psych.fullerton.edu\/mbirnbaum\/psych101\/Eliza.htm\">Eliza<\/a>      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, September 29<\/strong>     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To Play: <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/home.mindspring.com\/%7Eemshort\/galatea.htm\">Galatea<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In Class: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csd.uwo.ca\/Infocom\/Articles\/creed.html\" target=\"_self\">The Implementor&#8217;s Creed<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Other IF to consider: <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/if\/game\/255\">Phototopia<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/if\/game\/429\">Varicella<\/a> by Adam Cadre; <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/if\/game\/918\">Shade<\/a> by Andrew Plotkin      <\/li>\n<li>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/cyoa-analysis\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em> Media Analysis<\/a> due *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>   WEEK SIX &#8211; INTERACTIVE FICTION, TAKE TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 4<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott McCloud, <em>Understanding Comics<\/em>, pages 1-137<\/li>\n<li>To Play: <a href=\"http:\/\/turbulence.org\/Works\/mystery\/index.php\">Mystery House Taken Over<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>  Thursday, October 6<\/strong>\t    <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Understanding Comics<\/em>, pages 138-215<\/li>\n<li>To Play: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hitchhikers\/game_nolan.shtml\">Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Workshop on Digital Stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>     \t WEEK SEVEN &#8211; HYPERTEXT AND HYPERFICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 11<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul> No Class: Monday-Tuesday Switch Day <\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, October 13<\/strong>     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vannevar Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/194507\/bush\">&ldquo;As We May Think&rdquo;<\/a> from the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly<\/li>\n<li>Two Types of Hypertext: <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury\">Mercury<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ugcs.caltech.edu\/%7Ebenedett\/lit\/mercury.html\">Mercury<\/a>     <\/li>\n<li>J. Yellowlees Douglas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoc.edu\/in3\/hermeneia\/sala_de_lectura\/j_yellowlees_gaps.htm\">Gaps, Maps and Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don&#8217;t) Do<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stuart Moulthrop, <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/\">Hegirascope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK EIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 18<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More Hegirascope<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/13\/exploring-hegirascope-assignment\/\" target=\"_self\">Hegirascope Exploratory Assignment<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, October 20<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Joyce, <em>Afternoon<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>   WEEK NINE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\t   Tuesday, October 25<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Afternoon <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Writing Space<\/em>, pages 121-130 (CP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <strong>   Thursday, October 27<\/strong>\t   <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  Stuart Moulthrop, <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/cotv\/\">The Color of Television<\/a> (1996) and <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/pax\/\">Pax <\/a>(2003)<\/li>\n<li>Media Analysis Workshop  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>   \t WEEK TEN\t&#8211; TEXTUAL MACHINES, TEXTUAL ENGINES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, November 1<\/strong>\t\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word Clouds, Dynamic Text, and other experiments in typology and meaning<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalphilistine.com\/alternumerics\">Alternumerics<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babynamewizard.com\/namevoyager\/lnv0105.html\">Name Voyager<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marumushi.com\/apps\/newsmap\/\">NewsMap<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.touchgraph.com\/TGGoogleBrowser.html\">GoogleBrowser<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/web.okaygo.co.uk\/apps\/letters\/flashcom\/index.htm\">Someone Keeps Stealing My Letters<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/dian-network.com\/con\/intruder\/\">The Intruder<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tenbyten.org\/10x10.html\" target=\"_self\">10&#215;10<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcount.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Wordcount<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingvorn.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Understanding Vorn<\/a>   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, November 3<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In-class <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/peer-review-form\/\">Peer Review<\/a>   <\/li>\n<li>* Draft of Media Analysis #2 Due *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>  \t WEEK ELEVEN &#8211; THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, November 8<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>* <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/media-analysis-2\/\">Media Analysis #2 Due<\/a> *<\/li>\n<li>In class: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemsthatgo.com\">Poems that Go<\/a> (<a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poemsthatgo.com\/gallery\/winter2004\/jabber\/index.htm\">The Jabberwocky Engine<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poemsthatgo.com\/gallery\/spring2003\/conversation\/conversation.html\">Conversation<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poemsthatgo.com\/gallery\/summer2001\/walking\/main.html\">Walking Together What Remains<\/a>, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poemsthatgo.com\/gallery\/fall2003\/fields\/\">Fields of Dreams<\/a>), and Jason Nelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heliozoa.com\/clone.html\">&quot;Nine Attempts to Clone a Poem&quot;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heliozoa.com\/superstition.html\">&quot;Superstitious Appliances&quot;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, November 10<\/strong>\t \t       <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/%7Eiareview\/tirweb\/hypermedia\/talan_memmott\/\" target=\"_self\">Lexia to Perplexia<\/a> by Talan Memmott<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/califia.hispeed.com\/Complexity\/\" target=\"_self\">The Personalization of Complexity<\/a> by Marjorie Coverley Luiesebrink<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/%7Eiareview\/mainpages\/new\/oct05\/nelson.html\">The Bomar Gene<\/a> by Jason Nelson    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>  \t WEEK TWELVE &#8211; NEW MEDIA AND THE CULTURAL PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, November 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lev Manovich, <em>The Language of New Media<\/em>, pages 19-61 (CR)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunshine69.com\/\">Sunshine &lsquo;69<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickfilms.com\/\">Brickfilms<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oblongpictures.co.uk\/films.htm\">Oblong Pictures<\/a> (See, for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickfilms.com\/filmview.php?filmID=202\" target=\"_self\">Out of Time<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <strong>Thursday, November 17<\/strong>   <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The story of the digital archive<\/li>\n<li>Gary Wolf, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,60948,00.html\">&ldquo;The Great Library of Amazonia&rdquo;<\/a> from Wired<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\">The Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, November 22<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explore <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\">American Memory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In-class: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csi.ad.jp\/ABOMB\/\">A-Bomb WWW Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/\">United States Holocaust Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/triggur.org\/silo\/\">Abandoned Missile Bass VR Tour<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu\/\">Barnum&rsquo;s Lost Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/valley.vcdh.virginia.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">September 11 Digital Archive<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/valley.vcdh.virginia.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">The Valley of the Shadow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>      <\/ul>\n<p>    <strong>   Thursday, November 24<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul> No Class: Thanksgiving<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK FOURTEEN &#8211; NEW MEDIA AND THE CULTURAL PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>   Tuesday, November 29<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chnm.gmu.edu\/resources\/essays\/essay.php?id=6\" target=\"_self\">Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era<\/a> by Roy Rosenzweig<\/li>\n<li>Consider different <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/media-analysis-3\/digital-archives\/\">digital cultural archives<br \/>     <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/media-analysis-3\/\">Cultural Archive New Media Analysis<\/a> Workshop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>   Thursday, December 1<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul> Cultural Archive New Media Analysis Workshop   <\/ul>\n<p><strong>    WEEK FIFTEEN<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>  Tuesday, December 6<\/strong>\t\t <\/p>\n<ul> Cultural Archive Analyses Presentations<\/ul>\n<p>   <strong>  Thursday, December 8<\/strong>\t     <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Links to the beginning: What is Textual Media again?<\/li>\n<li>New Media Analysis #3 due in Class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK ONE &#8211; INTRODUCTION TO TEXTUAL MEDIA Tuesday, August 30 What is Textual media? Digital Textuality? New Media? What about the technical stuff? Email, blog, web accounts. Word Perhect Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Bust Down the Doors! and All Fall Down) Thursday, September 1 Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, pages 1-23, found in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/schedule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Schedule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}