Electronic Literature Schedule 2020

ALL HOMEWORK (HW) MUST BE DONE BEFORE CLASS. DOWNLOAD PROJECTS IN GOOD TIME TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN!

Student Health COVID-19

Description Exercise

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.
  • Help! how to read Marble Spring
  • Deena Larsen’s Metaphorical Interfaces by Leonardo Flores

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
  • Twine
    • First Story Guide
    • Twine2 guide
    • Saving twine stories
    • link to upload html files
  • Other Possible Tools/Methods

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