Schedule (subject to Change)
January 7: |
Introduction
How stories are "told"
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Seminar:
Telling stories: platforms, milieu, constraints, materiality
Getting started with course materials: twitter, blog
Designing the syllabus collaboratively; crowdsourcing our stories
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January 14: |
Raw Shark Texts: the materiality of print play
Static Web Design & Working with Images:
HTML5, CSS, DreamWeaver, Photoshop
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DIY vs. The Schoolmaster
Homework:
Read:
Raw Shark Texts (ch. 1-23 (through pp 235)).
Complete HTML/XHTML tutorials for W3Schools.
Recommended: Complete Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
Do:
Set up your UNIX account for your website
Blog post #1 due by Sunday, January 13 at 5p
Submit your idea for the syllabus on the blog by Saturday, January 12 at 12p.
Comment on at least three of your peers' fabulous textideas by Sunday January 13 at midnight.
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January 21: |
Holiday: no class
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see below for homework
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January 28: |
DigiStory: Post Print Fictions (after the internet books....)
Static Web Design II, Style: Dreamweaver, HTML, HTML5, CSS, Photoshop |
Seminar:
Discuss Sharks: questions of print literature influenced by the internet
Your class websites are up!!
Do:
Finish in-class Shark photoshop assignment
Finish Raw Shark Texts
Complete HTML5/XHTML tutorials at Channel 9 Intro & Channel 9 HTML5 (Channel 9 is especially helpful for PC users)
Complete W3Schools Tutorials for CSS
Complete tutorials for Dreamweaver
Author your fully functional homepage (HTML & content) for your static website -- uploaded & live (Dreamweaver FTP help) (HTML tags)
Set up your Pitt Unix account
Tweet your website URL to Prof. Bianco
Post your website with all assignments using Pitt server (see "Technology" doc in dropbox but do not remove it!)
Import CC license and educational "fair use" clause to website
Blog post #2 due by Sunday at 5pm on January 27 on course blog.
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February 4: |
Hypertextualizing: Queering the corpus of print(ed) fictions; ink stains
and the corporeal "media" of print |
Seminar:
Discuss TEXT (Raw Shark & Jackson's), HYPERTEXTINGS, INK: questions of the 'body' of print fiction shaped by the internet & other millenial things
Your class websites are updated and you are (technologically) ready to compose a hypertextual response to our readings!!
Do:
Shelley Jackson: "My Body & a Wunderkammer", Skin [Ineradicable Stain](look through entire project and watch the video)
Deleuze & Guattari: Intro, Foreward & "Rhizome" from Mille Plateaux
Review W3Schools Tutorials for HTML/HTML5 & W3Schools Tutorials for CSS
Review tutorials for Dreamweaver & Photoshop
Photo assignment: Corporealize the Word (10 cultivated & uploaded pics)
Blog post #3 due by Sunday at 5pm on February 3 on course blog.
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February 11: |
Hypertext II: Hypertextuality, CyberText, 2nd gen Elit, 2nd gen post-print
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Seminar:
Discuss Digital TEXT (Jackson, Joyce & Morrisey/Talley's), Hypertext/Cybertext: questions of temporality, presence, affect and materiality in early digital storytelling
Your class websites are updated and you are (technologically) ready to compose a hypertextual response to our readings!!
Do:
Michael Joyce: "Twelve Blue"
Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley: "The Jew's Daughter"
Espen Aarseth: "Ergodic Literature" from Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Jay David Bolter: "Hypertext and the Remediation of Print" from Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print
Photo assignment #2: Temporalize the Word (5 cultivated & uploaded pics)
Blog post #4 due by Sunday at 5pm on February 10 on course blog.
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February 18: |
Workshop I/Hypertext III: Get those assignments revised with in class hands-on revision
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Seminar:
work through a full revision of all assignments and updating/improving your websites
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February 25: |
Hypertext IV: Hypertextuality, 2nd gen Elit, 2nd gen post-print, Reading Code + Text Network Fiction & the end of Hypertext: Hypertextuality, Network Fiction, 2nd gen Elit, 2nd gen post-print, Reading Code + Text
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Seminar:
Discuss Readings: questions of second generation hypertext, and reception/reading strategies for ELiterature & print literature influenced by the internet. Movement of digital texts. Begin network fiction/gamification of narrative. Continue discussing close reading of code+text.
Homework Due Today:
Oni Buchanan: "The Mandrake Vehicles"
William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg and Dirk Stratton, The Unknown Hypertext (read and listen--this is a big work so give it time)
Blog post #5 due by Sunday at 5pm on February 24 on course blog.
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March 4: |
Networked Fiction II: young adult and global narrative told in multimodal forms
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Seminar:
Animated network fiction and the global narrative
Present your Midterm Composition
Resources: DMCA, Sound Formats (mp3), Image formats
Homework Due Today:
Kate Pullinger, Inanimate Alice
Kate Pullinger, et al, Flight Paths: a networked novel
Midterm Composition v.1.0 uploaded to your website by the start of class
Blog post #6 due by Sunday at 5pm on March 3 on course blog.
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March 11: |
Spring Break!
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Work on revising your Midterm Composition
Find a provocative sound piece, soundscape, or podcast & post the link to this piece on twitter by Monday, March 11 at midnight
Get a head start on the digital works for class due next week
Make sure you have completed all assignments to date (remember that you must complete all assignments to pass the course!)
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March 18: |
Sound Works
Interactive Documentary |
Seminar:
Non-fiction, Creative Non-fiction & Digital Media. Sound work and live action, interactive documentary (what do we hear when we listen to digital works)
Present your Midterm Composition 2.0
Resources: Brian Massumi, The Autonomy of Affect (from Parables of the Virtual)
Select a text for presentations
Homework Due Today:
Listen to: "The House on Loon Lake" and This American Life: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes (2003, NPR) [mp3 pay download or free ... if you find it :)]& "Apron Strings of Savannah" from The Moth
Listen to soundscapes: Soundwalk (pay attention to use of text + image + sound), London Sound Survey, the Smalls Street Sounds
Listen to all posted (twitter) sound pieces posted by peers
Bear 71 (watch, listen, interact with entire site/project)
Midterm Composition v.2.0 uploaded to your website by the start of class
Blog post #7 due by Sunday at 5pm on March 17 on course blog.
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March 25: |
Serious Games & Machinimma: what can you do when you play with videogames rather than play videogames?
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Seminar:
Machinimma: making movies with game engines...
Serious games: cause geeks making us play to think!
Present your Midterm Composition 3.0 (If required)
Homework Due Today:
Watch Red v. Blue, Seasons 1 & 2.
Play (at Games for Change): Phone Story, dys4ia, Inside the Haiti Earthquake + 1 more game of your choice
Initial Proposal for Final Project
Blog post #8 due by Sunday at 5pm on March 24 on course blog.
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April 1: |
Deformation and cut-outs: post-print fiction II
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Seminar:
What is post-print, print fiction? Deformation and the material text... revisitation
Today's April Fool's Day Bonus
Homework Due Today:
Read: Tree of Codes (Jonathan Safran Foer) (available at bookstore)
Revised Proposal for Final Project/First drafts
Blog post #9 due by Sunday at 5pm on March 31 on course blog.
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April 8: |
Platforms: what we read, & watch ... how we communicate |
Seminar:
The open platform... the medium is the message?
Homework Due Today:
Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter
Complete first draft for Final Project
Blog post #10 due by Sunday at 5pm on April 7 on course blog.
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April 15: |
Showcase: Present your Final Project
You MUST BE PRESENT ON THIS DAY
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Final Project Presentations
Final Project Complete and uploaded
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April 22: |
NO CLASS: FINAL DEADLINE FOR ALL COURSEWORK
Final Projects Due
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Final Project Due
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