*Please note that this outline is subject to changes as each year a slightly different trajectory takes shape based on research interests within the group. The class log, maintained by the TA, will provide a recap of activities, file attachments, and full assignment descriptions. All offline readings are provided as pdf files.
Weekly topics are generally briefly introduced on the date that they appear and then elaborated upon the following week through discussing the assigned readings, screenings, and creative work.
Technical Resource: HTML5 tutorials
Assigned Reading: Loss Glazier: Glazier_abcsofCoding
Compose a creative response to the Glazier reading that considers / performs relationships and boundaries between code and text. Output can be 1 or more html files or a sketch (meaning small program) in another coding language.
Critical Resource: Bernstein, Mark. Patterns of Hypertext
Technical Resource: CSS Tutorial
in-class exercise: what makes sand your concern?
(pdf) translationasintroduction_Stein
Screenings: Raymond Queneau: Cent mille milliards de poèmes; Racter (Machine Prose);
Digital Visuality
Screenings: Ted Warnell: poems by nari, Jim Andrews: dbCinema, Marko Niemi: minimalist concrete poetry; Stephane Mallarmé: Un Coup de Des; Jean François Bory: Elegy for 3 Astronauts; Ronald Johnson: Maze Mane Wane; Steve McCaffery: Carnival
Resource: ‘Prehistoric Digital Poetry“, Chris Funkhouser from Prehistoric Digital Poetry
Assigned Readings: Lori Emerson: Typewriter Concrete Poetry as Activist Media Poetics;
CSS Tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/css/
http://www.w3schools.com/css/
Assigned Task: Electronic Calligrammes
WEEK 5: MARCH 1
Languages That Execute: A Closer Look at Codework
Mez: cross.ova.ing /codewurk, Jodi: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/(view source), Alan Sondheim: truth or illusion & run by me, Jose Carlos Silvestre: Failed Fractals, Hannah Weiner, Code Poems (very short excerpt), Nick Montfort: ppg256 (Perl Poetry Generators) and other works code, language and remix->Kathy Acker: Great Expectations; Repetition and Remix in Machine Texts;
Reading: Wendy Chun: On Sourcery and Source Codes
WEEK 6: MARCH 8
NO CLASS :: CRITIQUE WEEK
WEEK 7: MARCH 15:
Project 1 presentations
WEEK 8: MARCH 22
Project 1 presentations
WEEK 9: MARCH 29
Mathew’s Algorithm(s): Combinatory Texts & Writing of Scale
works->web implementation of Queneau’s Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, Loss Glazier: Io Sono At Swoons, Brian Kim Stefans: Kluge; Nick Montfort &: Taroko Gorge; Jhave: Mups
WEEK 10: APRIL 5
Code Sourcery
exercise: The Library is on Fire
work->bpNichol: First Screening, Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries: Dakota, John Cayley: Translation
Reading: from The Readies, Bob Brown (1930)
codebase: javascript (tutorial here)
Reading: ‘Mathew’s_Algorithm‘, Harry Mathews
assignment: Project 1
Reading as Writing: parsing-through, erasing & channeling
I. Erasure
Dice Thrown: Mallarmé (1914) /Broodthaers (1969)
Jen Bervin: The Desert (1901/2008)
N. NourbeSe Philip: Zong! (1781/2011) (About / Reading Zong / The Weight of What’s left Out / Excerpts)
II. Mesostics & Diastics
John Cage: Writing Through Finnegans Wake for the Second Time (1939/1978)
Joyce reads from the Wake
Finnegans Wake (full text)
mesostics explanation
Jackson Mac Low spells through Ezra Pound (1948/1983)
Mac Low’s diastic method
III. Appropriation as Translation
Jorge Borges: Pierre Menard Author of The Quixote (1605-1615;1939)
John Cayley: How it Is: In Common Tongues (1961/2012)
Danny Snelson: My Dear CoUntess (various/2007)
Joyce and millions of little acts of copyright infringement
Joe Davis: Art as a Form of Life
IV. Data Poems & Live Feeds
Andrei Gheorghe: The Longest Poem in the World, Rui Torres: poemas no meio, Nick Montfort & Stephanie Strickland: Sea and Spar Between;Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin: Listening Post
codebase: javascript/jquery/ajax
Stephanie Strickland & Ian Hatcher: vniverse; Jorge Piringer: Konsonant & abcdefghij…; Samantha Gorman: Pry; Amaranth
Blast Theory: Can you see me now?; Kate Armstrong: Ping
FINAL PROJECTS
WEEK 15: MAY 5
FINAL PROJECTS