ALL HOMEWORK (HW) MUST BE DONE BEFORE CLASS. DOWNLOAD PROJECTS IN GOOD TIME TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN!
Mon Aug 31
- Trouble-shooting zoom.
- Introduction of syllabus and selves
- Course Overview, expectations, logistics
- How to use and share whiteboard from break out room.
HW
- READ “On Evolving and Emerging Literary Forms: A Curatorial Statement for ‘Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms” by Dene Grigar, 2013
- ADD quotation, location, brief comment/question into Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
- BROWSE examples from Library of Congress Electronic Literature and its Emerging Forms Exhibition, 2013
- FOCUS on three projects that struck you as interesting or surprising, be ready with short oral reports on them. (title, author, brief description)
Wed Sep 2
- Overview Lecture
- On Evolving and Emerging Literary Forms discussion
- Break out groups: report on Library of Congress Electronic Literature and its Emerging Forms Exhibition project that struck you
- Thinking about Content discussion: what kind of ideas, stories, experiences do you want to work with/make? how do you generate ideas? whose voice?
HW
- READ Janet Murray, From Game Story to Cyberdrama, in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance and Game
- ADD quotation, location, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
- WATCH Project Documentation: Luc Courchesne – go to explore/installations/landscape 1 (17 mins)
- ADD description, timestamp, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
- PLAY Deena Larsen Marble Springs Eastgate Systems, 1993 emulation site (START AT HOME)Links below will help you.
Mon Sept 7
- From Game Story to Cyberdrama discussion
- Luc Courchesne discussion
- Go over Description Exercise
- Break out Groups: Marble Springs do description exercise.
HW
- FINISH Marble Springs description exercise.
- POST description
- CHECK OUT POSSIBLE TOOLS – your first project will use twine
Wed Sept 9
- Marble Springs discussion: from description to analysis
- MarbleSpringsExamplePresentation
- Break Out Groups – read through and discuss elit exercise
- Start doing elit exercise – there is no wrong way to do it! It’s an exercise to get you thinking!
HW
- TWINE project – start to move your creative exercise into twine.
- LOOK at Presentation Weeks Below – SIGN UP for three ranked choices for presentation
- PLAY Choice/Texas – a twine game (trigger warning)
- Do description exercise.
Mon Sept 14
- Choice/Texas discussion: from description to analysis
- Trouble-shooting twine/ buddy groups
HW
- READ Interactive Story Structures
- TWINE project
Wed Sept 16
- Interactive Story Structures discussion
- Group check-ins on twine project progress
- Work on twine project
HW
- READ Walking, Talking and Playing with Masculinities in Firewatch by Melissa Kagen, Game Studies, volume 18 issue 2 September 2018
- ADD description, timestamp, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
Mon Sept 21
- Walking, Talking and Playing with Masculinities in Firewatch discussion
- PLAY A Show of Hands by Mark Marino
- Do description plus analysis exercise (revised).
HW
- FINISH Twine Project
- POST Twine Project to google drive
Wed Sept 23
- Twine Projects – peer group critique
HW
- READ: Jason Edward Lewis et al, “Making kin with the machines.” AI-Human relationships
- ADD quotation, location, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
Mon Sept 28
- Making kin with the machines discussion
- WATCH first 1:30 minutes: Janet Murray on Eliza
- WATCH first 10 minutes: Allison Parrish – Exploring (Semantic) Space With (Literal) Robots
- CHECK OUT: NaNoGenMo – spend November writing code to write a novel e.g I Waded in Clear Water by Allison Parrish
- READ ABOUT three data driven elit works:
- Sheldon County by James Ryan
- For sleepers in the quiet earth by Sofian Audry
- EVERY THING EVERY TIME by Naho Matsuda
HW
- MAKE a twitter account
- CHECK OUT Talking version of Eliza, standard version of Eliza
- CHECK OUT Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort, and variations
Wed Sept 30– – Eliza and playing with natural language
- Discussion of final project expectations and deadlines
- Chance to Pitch Ideas for Group Projects
- Panel 1 – planning meeting
- PLAY with Taroko Gorge, see how to make your own remix
- PLAY with CheapBotsDoneQuick
HW
- READ: A Manifesto for Ambient Literature by Tom Abba
- ADD quotation, location, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
- IDENTIFY your quotation: is it an argument, support for an argument, example etc.
Mon Oct 5 – Locative Media
- A Manifesto for Ambient Literature discussion
- PLAY and READ It Must Have Been Dark by Then by Duncan Speakman
- this is a phone app, download all updates before you go out with it
- the pdf of the accompanying text is on UB LEARNS
- DO description + analysis exercise and POST
HW
- WORK ON Final Project, Elevator Pitch + 1-2 Page Project Proposal + Planning documents DUE ON OCT 14
Wed Oct 7
- It Must Have Been Dark by Then discussion
- Individual/Group check-in/ on Final Project, Elevator Pitch + 1-2 Page Project Proposal + Planning documents
- Panel 2 – planning meeting
HW
- PLAY J.R. Carpenter The Gathering Cloud
- DO description and analysis exercise and POST
Mon Oct 12
- The Gathering Cloud discussion, from description to analysis
- PLAY Alan Bigelow The Shoot Out
- Do description and analysis exercise and POST
HW
- FINISH Final Project, Elevator Pitch + 1-2 Page Project Proposal + Planning documents
- POST 1-2 Page Project Proposal
Wed Oct 14
- Deliver Elevator Pitch descriptions of Project
- Further Discussion of Project Process and Timeline
- Individual/Group check-in/ on final project progress
- Panel 3 – planning meeting
HW
- Work on World Building for Final Project (setting)
- WATCH Video Games as Unnatural Narratives (~60 mins) by Astrid Ensslin or READ https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/7178360/PDB5367-00.pdf
- ADD quotation, timestamp, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
Mon Oct 19
- Video Games as Unnatural Narratives discussion
- Individual/Group check-in/ on final project progress
- Share World Building
- Panel 3/4 – planning meeting
HW
- Work on Final Project
Wed Oct 21
Panel Presentation 1: Playing with Story, Narrating Games – Jalen, Courtlin, Sioux
- Braid by Jonathan Blow
- The Stanley Parable by Davey Wreden
- Save the Date by Chris
- Related Reading: Narrative, Interactivity, Play and Games by Eric Zimmerman
HW
- Third generation electronic literature (1 hr 29 ins) Guest Lecture by Leonardo Flores at the University of Bergen (January 31, 2018)
- ADD quotation, timestamp, brief comment/question to Google Doc – insert your contribution chronologically.
Mon Oct 26
- Third generation electronic literature by Leonardo Flores discussion
- Individual/Group check-in/ on final project progress
- Work on Final Project
- Panel 4/5 – planning meeting
HW
- Work on Final Project
Wed Oct 28
Panel Presentation 2: Forest 404 Podcast – Siyi, Shane, Rick, KJ
- Forest 404 – podcasts: story plus soundscapes plus lectures
- Related Reading: Forest 404: Interview with Writer Timothy X Atack by E. Parker, Gothic Nature.1,321-330
HW
- Work on Final Project
- POST link to final project in progress
Mon Nov 2
- Peer to peer PLAY TEST first version of PROJECTS
HW
- Work on Final Project
Wed Nov 4
Panel Presentation 3: Playing with your Mind – Briana, Noah, Jon
- Karen by Blast Theory
- Related Reading: Crooked Data (Mis)Information in Contemporary Art
- HerStory Game
- Related Reading: His Story: How Sam Barlow rewrote the video game script, Eurogamer
HW
- Work on Final Project
- Put updated project in FINAL-PROGRESS-NOV4
Mon Nov 9
- Individual/Group check-in/ on final project progress
- Work on Final Project
- Panel 4,5,6 – planning meeting
HW
- Work on Final Project
Wed Nov 11
Panel Presentation 4: Web series/Social Media – Damahya, Bryant, Ryan T
- Lizzie Bennet Diaries by Hank Green and Bernie Su
- READ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or Watch one of the movies
- Related Reading: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Adapting Jane Austen in the Internet Age by Silke Jandl AAA: Arbeiten Aus Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, vol. 40, no. 1/2, 2015, pp. 167–196. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24722045. The link here is via the UB library which gives access.
HW
- Work on Final Project
- Put updated version in FINAL-PROGRESS-NOV11 by end of class on Nov16
Mon Nov 16
- Individual/Group check-in/ on final project progress
- PUT latest version in FINAL-PROGRESS-NOV 11 folder
- Panel 5,6 – planning meeting
- PLAY/READ The Pleasure of the Coast by J.R. Carpenter
- DO description and analysis exercise, include THREE analytic arguments and POST
HW
- POST The Pleasure of the Coast Description Exercise
- Work on Final Project
Wed Nov 18
- Analysis: The Pleasure of the Coast
- Schedule critiques
HW
- Work on Final Project
Mon Nov 23
Panel Presentation 5: ELO winners/honorable mentions – Dani, Alex, Olivia
- The Winnipeg by Maria Mencia
- Novelling by Luers, Smith, Dean
- Arriving Simultaneously on Multiple Far-Flung Systems by Judy Malloy
- The Path by Tales of Tales
Wed Nov 25 – THANKSGIVING
HW
- Work on Final Project
- Post final project (as applicable)
Mon Nov 30
Panel Presentation 6: Firewatch – Philip, Ryan W, Nick
- Firewatch
- Related Reading: Walking, Talking and Playing with Masculinities in Firewatch by Melissa Kagen, Game Studies, volume 18 issue 2 September 2018 (reprise)
HW
- IF YOU ARE SHOWING DEC 2- POST YOUR PROJECT BY 11PM NOV 30
- ALL: READ/PLAY PROJECTS BEFORE CLASS
Wed Dec 2 CRITIQUES – Courtlin, Bryant, Sioux, Siyi, Alex, Briana
HW
- IF YOU ARE SHOWING DEC 7- POST YOUR PROJECT BY 11PM DEC 5
- ALL: READ/PLAY PROJECTS BEFORE CLASS
Mon Dec 7 CRITIQUES – Ryan T, Dani, Nick, Jonathan, Jalen, Rick
HW
- IF YOU ARE SHOWING DEC 9- POST YOUR PROJECT BY 11PM DEC 7
ALL: READ/PLAY PROJECTS BEFORE CLASS
Wed Dec 9 CRITIQUES – Olivia, Shane, KJ, Ryan W, Damahya, Noah, Philip
Thursday Dec 17 – Final Project Final Deadline
- Electronic version – that I can play!
- html + assets files for twine
- mac executable for renPy
- web-browser playable version for unity
- other – talk to me
- KEEP and/or CONTINUE PROJECT to SHOW NEXT STUDENT SHOW!!!
VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES FOR NOV 18
- Should filmmakers learn to code?
- IDFA Doclab Documentary storytelling in the age of interface
- MIT Open Doc Lab
- Samantha Gorman Pry for iphone, ipad
- Jason Edward Lewis – Poetry for Excitable [Mobile] Media