In addition to group exercises, readings and other weekly activities, workshop participants will present two projects for group critique in the course of the semester. The simple project structure is designed to create an organic and experimental relationship between one’s practice and the new modes of thinking and making taking place within the class, emphasizing ideas and instincts over any urgent insistence on technical mastery.

Project 1: CyberText: Digital Poem in Any Medium

This initial project incorporates digital processes, tools, and/or aesthetics that emerge from class materials and discussion, but can be in any form. While coding is encouraged, examples may include experiments in code as language, artist’s books, procedural texts, video poems, performance, conceptual social network feeds, flash animations, web sites, or processing sketches.

Project 2: Poetic Computation

The final project should primarily consist of a programmed text created using html, css, javascript, processing, or another open-source scripting language. The core work may include or be extended by additional outputs including performance, prints, or objects.