GER 494/598; ENG 494/549; HUM
494
Spring 2003, Daniel Gilfillan
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Week
1: Approaches |
01/21: Introduction(s).
Course Overview. Cultural Production & Narrative |
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- Peter Howard, Xylo
<http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/xylo/index.html>
- Stephanie Strickland, The Ballad of Sand and
Harry Soot
<http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/>
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01/23: The Death of Print
and Birth of the Digital |
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Readings Due:
- Michael Benedikt. “Cyberspace: First
Steps.” (Handout)
- Robert Coover. “The End of Books.”
(Web)
- Carla Benedetti. “Is the Author Dead?”
(Web)
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Week
2: Experimenting Within Print (1): Labyrinths |
01/28: Jorge Luis Borges:
Selections |
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Readings Due:
- Borges. “The Garden of Forking Paths.”
pp. 89-101.
- Borges. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”
pp. 17-35.
- Deleuze/Guattari. “Introduction: Rhizome.”
(Course Packet)
Browse:
- Vaios Papanagnou. “The Garden of Forking
Paths by Jorge Luis Borges.” <http://www.geocities.com/papanagnou/>
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01/30: Jorge Luis Borges:
Selections |
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Readings Due:
- Borges. “An Examination of the Work
of Herbert Quinn.” pp. 73-78.
- Borges. “The Intruder.” (Handout)
- Stuart Moulthrop. “Reading from the
Map: Metonymy and Metaphor in the Fiction of
‘Forking Paths’.” (Handout)
Browse:
- Natalie Bookchin. “The Intruder.”
<http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/intruder/>
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Week
3: Experimenting Within Print (2): nouveau roman
and memory |
02/04: Alain Robbe-Grillet:
Djinn |
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- Robbe-Grillet. Djinn. pp. 11-128.
- Robbe-Grillet. “A Future for the Novel.”
(Course Packet)
- Robbe-Grillet. “New Novel, New Man.”
(Course Packet)
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02/06: Alain Robbe-Grillet:
Djinn |
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Film: Memento (2000),
Christopher Nolan, dir., 113 min.
Discussion Threads |
Week
4: Experimenting Within Print (3): Orality, Myth
and Memory |
02/11: Christoph Ransmayr:
The Last World |
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Film: Memento
(2000), Christopher Nolan, dir., 113 min.
Readings Due:
- Vannevar Bush. “As We May Think.”
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm>
- Ransmayr. The Last World. pp. 3-105.
Browse for Background Contextual Information:
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses. <http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm>
- Ovid FAQ. <http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/rob/faq/ovid_faq.php3>
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02/13: Christoph Ransmayr:
The Last World |
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Readings Due:
- Ransmayr. The Last World. pp. 107-150.
- Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy.
pp. 78-85, 93-103.
- Plato. Phaedrus <http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html>
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Week
5: (Cont.) |
02/18: Christoph Ransmayr:
The Last World |
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Readings Due:
- Ransmayr. The Last World. pp. 151-219.
- Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy.
pp. 117-138.
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02/20: Christoph Ransmayr:
The Last World |
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Concluding Discussion
Short Review #1
DUE by today. |
Week
6: Experiments Within Print (4): Discarding the
Author? |
02/25: Italo Calvino: If
on a winter's night a traveler |
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MOO Demonstration
Access
MOO Web Interface
MOO
Basics - Some Basic Commands and Other Stuff
Readings Due:
- Calvino. If on a winter's night a traveler,
pp. 3-114.
- Barthes. "The Death of the Author."
Image-Music-Text, pp. 142-149. Also
available on Web.
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02/27: Italo Calvino: If
on a winter's night a traveler |
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Guest Lecture: Massimo Riva,
Brown University, Time/Place: TBA
Readings Due:
- Calvino. If on a winter's night a traveler,
pp. 115-168.
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Week
7: (Cont.) |
03/04: Italo Calvino: If
on a winter's night a traveler |
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Readings Due:
- Calvino. If on a winter's night a traveler,
pp. 169-260.
- Foucault, "What is an Author?" (Web)
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03/06: Virtual Class Meeting.
Online MOO Discussion. |
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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 |
Week
8: Hypertext: Exploding the Print Narrative |
03/11: Italo Calvino: If
on a winter's night a traveler |
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Final Discussion of Calvino.
Readings Due:
- Peruse Patchwork Girl and keep a
"reading map" and journal to your
walk-through of the CD.
- Shelley Jackson. "Stitch Bitch: the patchwork
girl."
<http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/jackson.html>
Midterm Take-Home
Exam DUE. |
03/13: Shelley Jackson. Patchwork
Girl |
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Readings Due:
- George P. Landow. "Hypertext and Critical
Theory." (Course Packet)
- J. Yellowlees Douglas. "Just Tell Me
When to Stop: Hypertext and the Displacement
of Closure." (Course Packet)
Browse:
- Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce. "Lasting
Image." <http://www.eastgate.com/LastingImage/Welcome.html>
- babel, Hooshla Fox, et. al. "Access Points."
<http://www.391.org/29>
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Week
9: Spring Break - No Classes |
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Week
10: NetArt; Art on the Net; Networked Art; Digital
Art |
03/25: Digital Artists. (Technical
Requirements: many of these art pieces require Shockwave
plug-ins, or are best viewed using a particular
browser.) |
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Film: Synthetic
Pleasures. (1995) Iara Lee, dir., 83 min.
Clips
Browse and Play:
- Frankensteins Netz, Prométhée
Numérique, Wiretapping the Beast: <http://www.frankensteins-netz.de/index.html>
- Museum of Web Art: <http://www.mowa.org/>
- Das Epos der Maschine: <http://kunst.im.internett.de/epos-der-maschine/>
- FILMTEXT: <http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/>
- 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
- "Janek Section" or "You die
young when you know too much." <http://www.mowa.org/work/instlltns/nofrontiere/janekcr.html>
- "Alexander Chiu Eternal Life Device"
<http://www.alexchiu.com/>
- David Claerbout: Present <http://www.diacenter.org/claerbout/index.html>
- Claude Closky: Do you want love or lust? <http://www.diacenter.org/closky/index.html>
- Week-End <http://www.lecielestbleu.com/html/weekend.htm>
- Time <http://www.mowa.org/change/change_index.html>
- Jumping Off (Hypertextual essay by Stuart
Moulthrop) <http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/hoptext/Jumping_Off257>
- Hegiracope (Stuart Moulthrop) <http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/HGS/>
Online Museums
- M O C A Museum of Computer Art <http://www.museumofcomputerart.com/mocanet.htm>
- Digital Art Museum <http://www.dam.org/index.htm>
Readings Due:
- Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction." (Web
1 or Web
2)
- Benjamin, "The Author as Producer."
(Web)
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03/27: Intellectual Property/Copyright |
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Readings Due:
- Frow, "Timeshift: Technologies of Representation
and Intellectual Property." (Course Packet)
- Frow, "Repetition and Limitation: Computer
Software and Copyright Law." (Course Packet)
- Lessig, "Intellectual Property"
(Course Packet)
- Lessig, "Privacy" (Course Packet)
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Week
11: Digital Projects: New Media & Scholarship |
04/01: Electronic Scholarly
Publishing |
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Guest Lecture:
Sue Hunter, Hayden Library. Place: Room C6(West),
upper concourse Hayden Library
Readings Due:
- Silverman, "The Impact of Electronic
Publishing on the Academic Community."
(Course Packet)
- MLA Ad Hoc Committe on the Future of Scholarly
Publishing. "The Future of Scholarly Publishing"
(Course Packet)
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04/03: Online Scholarly Projects.
Electrifying the Canon. |
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Browse and Evaluate:
- The Decameron Web, <http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/>
- Gutenberg Digital, <http://www.gutenbergdigital.de>
- ARTFL Encylopédie <http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/encyc/>
- The Cervantes Project, <http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/>
- Dickinson Electronic Archives, <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/>
Short Review #2
DUE by today. |
Week
12: What's so New about New Media? |
04/08: Remediation and the
Remediated Self |
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Readings Due:
- Bolter/Grusin, Remediation, Ch. 1-3,
pp. 21-84.
- Bolter/Grusin, Remediation, Ch. 15,
pp. 231-240.
Assignment: Web-Storyboard
Project |
04/10: No Class. Work
on Web-Storyboard Project |
Week
13: Cyberculture in Film: Is it all Fun and Games? |
04/15: Film: Strange
Days. (1999). Kathyrn Bigelow, dir., 145 min. |
04/17: Film: Strange
Days. (1999). Kathyrn Bigelow, dir., 145 min. |
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Assignment:
Web-Storyboard Project DUE |
Week
14: (Cont.) |
04/22: Film: Lola
rennt (Run Lola Run). (1998). Tom Tykwer, dir.,
80min. |
04/24: No Class. Work
on Seminar Project |
Week
15: (Cont.) |
04/29: Film: eXistenZ.
(1999). David Cronenberg, dir., 97min. |
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- Peter Howard, Xylo <http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/xylo/index.html>
- Stephanie Strickland, The Ballad of Sand and
Harry Soot <http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/>
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05/01: Film: eXistenZ.
(1999). David Cronenberg, dir., 97min. |
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Project Presentations |
Week
16: Conclusions |
05/06: Seminar Wrap Up |
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Project Presentations.
Evaluations.
Seminar Project
DUE on Tuesday, May 13 by 5 pm in my mailbox.
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