1. Peter Howard, Xylo
   <http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/xylo/index.html>
2. Stephanie Strickland, The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot
   <http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/>

1. Michael Benedikt. “Cyberspace: First Steps.” (Handout)
2. Robert Coover. “The End of Books.” (Web)
3. Carla Benedetti. “Is the Author Dead?” (Web)

Readings Due:

1. Borges. “The Garden of Forking Paths.” pp. 89-101.
2. Borges. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” pp. 17-35.
3. Deleuze/Guattari. “Introduction: Rhizome.” (Course Packet)

Browse:

1. Vaios Papanagnou. “The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges.” <http://www.geocities.com/papanagnou/>

1. Borges. “An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quinn.” pp. 73-78.
2. Borges. “The Intruder.” (Handout)
3. Stuart Moulthrop. “Reading from the Map: Metonymy and Metaphor in the Fiction of ‘Forking Paths’.” (Handout)

Browse:

1. Natalie Bookchin. “The Intruder.” <http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/intruder/>

1. Robbe-Grillet. Djinn. pp. 11-128.
2. Robbe-Grillet. “A Future for the Novel.” (Course Packet)
3. Robbe-Grillet. “New Novel, New Man.” (Course Packet)

Film: Memento (2000), Christopher Nolan, dir., 113 min.

Discussion Threads

Film: Memento (2000), Christopher Nolan, dir., 113 min.

Readings Due:

1. Vannevar Bush. “As We May Think.” <http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm>
2. Ransmayr. The Last World. pp. 3-105.

Browse for Background Contextual Information:

1. Ovid’s Metamorphoses. <http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm>
2. Ovid FAQ. <http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/rob/faq/ovid_faq.php3>

1. Ransmayr. The Last World. pp. 107-150.
2. Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy. pp. 78-85, 93-103.
3. Plato. Phaedrus <http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html>

Readings Due:

1. Ransmayr. The Last World. pp. 151-219.
2. Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy. pp. 117-138.

Concluding Discussion

Short Review #1 DUE by today.

MOO Demonstration

Access MOO Web Interface
MOO Basics - Some Basic Commands and Other Stuff

Readings Due:

1. Calvino. If on a winter's night a traveler, pp. 3-114.
2. Barthes. "The Death of the Author." Image-Music-Text, pp. 142-149. Also available on Web.

Guest Lecture: Massimo Riva, Brown University, Time/Place: TBA

Readings Due:

1. Calvino. If on a winter's night a traveler, pp. 115-168.

Readings Due:

1. Calvino. If on a winter's night a traveler, pp. 169-260.
2. Foucault, "What is an Author?" (Web)

MOO Instructions forthcoming.

Assignment: Pick up take-home midterm exam from my office door. Exam due at next class session.

DOWNLOAD TAKE-HOME EXAM HERE: PDF FORMAT

Final Discussion of Calvino.

Readings Due:

1. Peruse Patchwork Girl and keep a "reading map" and journal to your walk-through of the CD.
2. Shelley Jackson. "Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl."
   <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/jackson.html>

Midterm Take-Home Exam DUE.

1. George P. Landow. "Hypertext and Critical Theory." (Course Packet)
2. J. Yellowlees Douglas. "Just Tell Me When to Stop: Hypertext and the Displacement of Closure." (Course Packet)

Browse:

1. Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce. "Lasting Image." <http://www.eastgate.com/LastingImage/Welcome.html>
2. babel, Hooshla Fox, et. al. "Access Points." <http://www.391.org/29>

Film: Synthetic Pleasures. (1995) Iara Lee, dir., 83 min. Clips

Browse and Play:

1. Frankensteins Netz, Prométhée Numérique, Wiretapping the Beast: <http://www.frankensteins-netz.de/index.html>
2. Museum of Web Art: <http://www.mowa.org/>
3. Das Epos der Maschine: <http://kunst.im.internett.de/epos-der-maschine/>
4. FILMTEXT: <http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/>
5. Lexia to Perplexia: <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/newmedia/lexia/>

Assignment: Mine the Web for some art projects you find particularly interesting. Bring in or send the URLs for inclusion in today's discussion.

Projects of Student Interest

1. "Janek Section" or "You die young when you know too much." <http://www.mowa.org/work/instlltns/nofrontiere/janekcr.html>
2. "Alexander Chiu Eternal Life Device" <http://www.alexchiu.com/>
3. David Claerbout: Present <http://www.diacenter.org/claerbout/index.html>
4. Claude Closky: Do you want love or lust? <http://www.diacenter.org/closky/index.html>
5. Week-End <http://www.lecielestbleu.com/html/weekend.htm>
6. Time <http://www.mowa.org/change/change_index.html>
7. Jumping Off (Hypertextual essay by Stuart Moulthrop) <http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/hoptext/Jumping_Off257>
8. Hegiracope (Stuart Moulthrop) <http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/HGS/>

Online Museums

1. M O C A Museum of Computer Art <http://www.museumofcomputerart.com/mocanet.htm>
2. Digital Art Museum <http://www.dam.org/index.htm>

Readings Due:

1. Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." (Web 1 or Web 2)
2. Benjamin, "The Author as Producer." (Web)

1. Frow, "Timeshift: Technologies of Representation and Intellectual Property." (Course Packet)
2. Frow, "Repetition and Limitation: Computer Software and Copyright Law." (Course Packet)
3. Lessig, "Intellectual Property" (Course Packet)
4. Lessig, "Privacy" (Course Packet)

Guest Lecture: Sue Hunter, Hayden Library. Place: Room C6(West), upper concourse Hayden Library

Readings Due:

1. Silverman, "The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community." (Course Packet)
2. MLA Ad Hoc Committe on the Future of Scholarly Publishing. "The Future of Scholarly Publishing" (Course Packet)

Browse and Evaluate:

1. The Decameron Web, <http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/>
2. Gutenberg Digital, <http://www.gutenbergdigital.de>
3. ARTFL Encylopédie <http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/encyc/>
4. The Cervantes Project, <http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/>
5. Dickinson Electronic Archives, <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/>

Short Review #2 DUE by today.

Readings Due:

1. Bolter/Grusin, Remediation, Ch. 1-3, pp. 21-84.
2. Bolter/Grusin, Remediation, Ch. 15, pp. 231-240.

Assignment: Web-Storyboard Project

1. Peter Howard, Xylo <http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/xylo/index.html>
2. Stephanie Strickland, The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot <http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/>

Project Presentations.
Evaluations.

Seminar Project DUE on Tuesday, May 13 by 5 pm in my mailbox.