{"id":18,"date":"2008-08-20T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2008-11-16T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T03:09:48","slug":"calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>WEEK 1\t\/\/  WHAT IS TEXTUAL MEDIA?<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, August 26<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to textual media and electronic literature (<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Presentation?id=dgzx6wms_78ffjtqhgs\">Slideshow<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Neil Hennessey, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6phk2g\">Jabber: The Jabberwocky Engine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Deena Larsen, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6jkusf\">Firefly<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alex Itin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/604918\">Orson Whales<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, August 28<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>N. Katherine Hayles, <em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 1-30<\/li>\n<li>* Blog Response Due (in which you focus on either <em>Jabber<\/em>, <em>Firefly<\/em>, or <em>Orson Whales<\/em> and think through the dynamic between representational meaning and evocative meaning in the work)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 2\t\/\/ NARRATIVE AND PLAYFULNESS<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, September 2<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Marie-Laure Ryan, <em>Narrative as Virtual Reality<\/em>, pp. 204-224 (Blackboard)<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Moulthrop, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5bufl4\">Hegirascope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, September 4<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hegirascope <\/em>Web 2.0, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailfire.com\/\">Trailfire<\/a> (requires extension), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleck.com\/\">Fleck<\/a> (requires bookmarklet), or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awesomehighlighter.com\/\">Awesome Highlighter<\/a>; Also recommended is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/60\">Web Developer Extension<\/a> installed<\/li>\n<li><em>Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em> (handout)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 3\t\/\/ NARRATIVE AND PLAY<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, September 9<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Narrative as Virtual Reality<\/em>, pp. 242-270 (Blackboard)<\/li>\n<li>Olia Lialina, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleportacia.org\/war\/\">My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru\/\">Remixes of My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blog Response Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, September 11<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Flanagan, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5vjf6a\">[theHouse]<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Lewis, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5skb4z\">Nine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 4\t\/\/ INTERACTIVE FICTION<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, September 16<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Dennis Jerz, <a href=\"http:\/\/jerz.setonhill.edu\/if\/gallery\/help.html\">Introduction to Interactive Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adam Cadre, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5bbdjr\">Photopia<\/a> (Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/playthisthing.com\/photopia\">a review of Photopia<\/a> on Play This Thing!)<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5bbdjr\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In class: Sam Barlow, <a href=\"http:\/\/parchment.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/parchment.html?story=http:\/\/parchment.toolness.com\/if-archive\/games\/zcode\/Aisle.z5.js\">Aisle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/parchment.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/parchment.html?story=http:\/\/parchment.toolness.com\/if-archive\/games\/zcode\/Galatea.zblorb.js\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>In class: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ja2MUXS_YQUC\">Atlas of the European Novel<\/a>, p. 119 (maps), <a href=\"http:\/\/monk.lis.uiuc.edu:6060\/openlaszlo-3.3.3-servlet\/my-apps\/featurelens\/src\/featurelens.lzx?debug=false&amp;lzt=html\">FeatureLens<\/a> (word maps), <a href=\"http:\/\/textarc.org\/Hamlet.html\">and TextArc<\/a> (Hamlet word universe)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/guidelines\/media-inquiry-1-cyoa\/\">Media Inquiry #1<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, September 18<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Montfort, <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/if\/toward.html\">Towards a Theory of Interactive Fiction<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/if\/fourth_era.html\">Interactive Fiction&#8217;s Fourth Era<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Admiral Jota, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5anehh\">Lost Pig<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Andrew Plotkin, <a href=\"http:\/\/parchment.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/parchment.html?story=http:\/\/parchment.toolness.com\/if-archive\/games\/zcode\/shade.z5.js\">Shade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In class: Joseph Weizenbaum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chayden.net\/eliza\/Eliza.html\">Eliza<\/a> and Emily Short, <a href=\"http:\/\/parchment.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/parchment.html?story=http:\/\/parchment.toolness.com\/if-archive\/games\/zcode\/Galatea.zblorb.js\">Galatea<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blog  Checkpoint (3 posts total)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 5\t\/\/ THE BOUNDARIES OF INTERACTIVE FICTION<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, September 23<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Victor Gijspers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/guidelines\/the-baron-by-victor-gijsbers\/\">The Baron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/guidelines\/fate-by-victor-gijsbers\/\">Fate<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jason Devlin, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6zex4c\">Vespers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, September 25<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 43-59<\/li>\n<li>Michael Joyce, <em>Afternoon: A Story <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 6\t\/\/ READING AFTERNOON<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, September 30<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Afternoon<\/em>, continued<\/li>\n<li>Blog Response Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, October 2<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 59-70<\/li>\n<li>Michael Joyce, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5zpuy7\">Twelve Blue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 7\t\/\/ VISUAL MEDIA<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, October 7<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Scott McCloud, <em>Understanding Comics<\/em>, pages 1-137<\/li>\n<li>Blog Checkpoint (5 posts total)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, October 9<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Understanding Comics<\/em>, pages 138-215<\/li>\n<li>Jason Nelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5tlza3\">The Bomar Gene<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2e4scu\">game, game, game and again game<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In class, Scott McCloud&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/comics\/carl\/index.html\">Carl Comics<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baciamistupido.com\/html\/index.asp?page=Carl\">Flash Version<\/a>)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/comics\/carl\/index.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In class, Matt Madden&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artbabe.com\/exercises\/exercises\/\">Exercises in Style<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 8\t\/\/ MEDIA THEORY<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, October 14<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> No Class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, October 16<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 71-85<\/li>\n<li> Marcia Mencia, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5j6jhk\">Birds Singing Other Birds&#8217; Songs<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<li> Judd Morrissey, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/66o2d3\">The Jew&#8217;s Daughter<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 9\t\/\/ BODIES AND MACHINES<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, October 21<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 87-102<\/li>\n<li>Shelley Jackson, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/57dwk9\">my body &#8211; a wunderkammer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, October 23<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 120-130<\/li>\n<li> Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/NIPPON.html\">Nippon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In class: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/ALL_FALL_DOWN.html\">All Fall Down<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/TRAVELING_TO_UTOPIA.html\">Traveling to Utopia: With a Brief History of the Technology<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/guidelines\/media-inquiry-2-yhchi\/\">Media Inquiry #2<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 10\t\/\/ READING TEXT AS CODE<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, October 28<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Electronic Literature<\/em>, pp. 131-145, 155-157<\/li>\n<li>William Poundstone, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/55w9fk\">Project for Tachistoscope<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<li>Millie Niss and Martha Deed, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/638nug\">Oulipoems<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<li>In class: Queneau&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevrowe.info\/Poems\/QueneauRandom.html\">A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems<\/a>, Jonathan Harris&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcount.org\/\">Word Count<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, October 30<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Brian Kim Stefans, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6zvuzf\">Star Wars, one letter at a time<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<li> Natalie Bookchin, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5vamzw\">The Intruder<\/a><\/li>\n<li> Jim Andrews, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5rt5c8\">Arteroids<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 11\t\/\/ DIGITAL AND GENERATIVE POETRY<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, November 4<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Textual Media Experiment<\/li>\n<li>Revisiting Jason Nelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2e4scu\">game, game, game and again game<\/a> and Marcia Mencia, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5j6jhk\">Birds Singing Other Birds&#8217; Songs<\/a>, and Millie Niss and Martha Deed, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/638nug\">Oulipoems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, November 6<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Talan Memmott, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5mwgsf\">Lexia to Perplexia<\/a> (also on E-Lit CD)<\/li>\n<li>Blog Checkpoint (8 posts total)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 12\t\/\/ DATABASE MEDIA<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, November 11<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Lev Manovich, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6f4xq3\">Database as a Genre of New Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li> Jim Andrews, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6nattl\">Nio<\/a><\/li>\n<li> Jason Nelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/rcgcc\">Weather Visualizer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6hk58u\">Conversation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, November 13<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wefeelfine.org\/\">We Feel Fine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.love-lines.com\/\">Lovelines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Harris, <a href=\"http:\/\/thewhalehunt.org\/\">The Whale Hunt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Media Inquiry #3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 13\t\/\/ MOBILE LITERATURE AND EPHEMERAL TEXTS<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, November 18<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Lev Manovich, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6xasbv\">The Poetics of Augmented Space<\/a><\/li>\n<li> Charles Cumming, <a href=\"http:\/\/wetellstories.co.uk\/stories\/week1\/\">The 21 Steps<\/a><\/li>\n<li> Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/twittervision.com\/\">Twittervision<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twistori.com\/\">Twistori<\/a>, and Other Social Networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, November 20<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Nick Montfort and Scott Rettberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/implementation\/\">Implementation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 14\t\/\/ THANKSGIVING<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, November 25<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> BRB LOL IRL<\/li>\n<li>Blog Checkpoint (10 posts total)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, November 27<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Thanksgiving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 15\t\/\/ THE LEVIATHAN RETURNS<\/h3>\n<h5>Tuesday, December 2<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Textual Media Experiment Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Thursday, December 4<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/thewhalehunt.org\/\"><\/a>Textual Media Experiment Presentations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 16\t\/\/ FINAL PAPER<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>FINAL PAPER DUE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK 1 \/\/ WHAT IS TEXTUAL MEDIA? Tuesday, August 26 Introduction to textual media and electronic literature (Slideshow) Neil Hennessey, Jabber: The Jabberwocky Engine Deena Larsen, Firefly Alex Itin, Orson Whales Thursday, August 28 N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature, pp. 1-30 * Blog Response Due (in which you focus on either Jabber, Firefly, or Orson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/calendar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Course Calendar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}