Electronic Writing II
Workshop course in which students will compose texts using HTML, Video, Sound, Animated GIFs, the Voice, Books, and other media.
SYLLABUS, SPRING 2009
(Refer to
Fall 2008 Syllabus for expanded version of the same course).
WEEK 0
Thurs Jan 22 - Lab
-> Literary Shifting
+ PB Shelley / Robert Duncan, “Arethusa” (1820 / 1969)
+ Michael Snow, So Is This (1982; no full screening yet)
WEEK 1
Tues Jan 27 - Seminar
-> Handout: Chris Funkhouser’s “Chronology” from Prehistoric Digital Poetry (2007)
-> Handout: Selections from the "Translators' Introduction" to Gramophone... (Kittler 1986)
-> Discuss “Preface” & “Introduction” of Gramophone… (pp xxxix-19)
Thurs Jan 29 - Lab
-> Software: Sound editing (Garageband, Quicktime)
-> Software: HTML, CSS
-> Listen to songs from Captain Beefheart’s
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
+
"Orange Claw Hammer" (3:34)
+
"Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" (2:26)
-> Listen to Jackson Mac Low’s
“Refrigerator Defrosting" (4:29)
WEEK 2
Tues Feb 3 - Seminar
-> Discuss “Preface” & “Introduction” of Gramophone… (Kittler; pp xxxix-19)
-> Lecture on texts from the Situationist International Anthology (ed/trans Ken Knabb)
+ Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman: "A User's Guide to Detournement" (1956)
+ Guy Debord: "Theory of the Derive" (1956)
+ "Slogans to be spread now by every means" (1968)
Thurs Feb 5 - NO LAB
WEEK 3
Tues Feb 10 - Seminar
-> Discuss first half of “Gramophone” (Kittler; pp 21-59)
-> Discuss James A Connor’s “Radio Free Joyce” and selection from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
Thurs Feb 12 - Lab
-> software: Max/MSP
-> Listen to Burroughs tape cut-ups
-> Listen to Plunderphonics (John Oswald)
+
"Case Of Death (Part One Chapters 1-16)" (5:59)
- via Agatha Christie's
The Moving Finger
+
"Case Of Death (Part Two Chapters 1-9)" by Artie Hitch Saga (3:39)
- via Agatha Christie's
The Moving Finger
+
"Discorite" by Tsar Rosy Viking (1:38)
+
"dWig" by Wieldug Ven Ovenbath (3:02)
+
"Prelude" by ZZ Snarlfit (0:55)
+
"Pretender" (3:34)
+
"Sfield" (0:31)
+
"Vane" (3:20)
+
"Andy (Dang Fishy Rift)" by Daffy Shitgrin (0:54)
WEEK 4
Thurs Feb 19 - Lab
-> Software: Screenflick / Quicktime / Video editing
-> Discuss second half of “Gramophone” (Kittler; pp 59-114)
WEEK 5
Tues Feb 24 - Seminar
-> Discuss
Songs from Navigation (cheek & Jones; 1997)
-> Screen Marcel Duchamp’s
Anemic Cinema (1926, 6:00)
+
http://ubu.com/film/duchamp.html
Thurs Feb 26 - Lab
-> Guy Debord’s
Hurlements en faveur de Sade (1952, 75:00)
+ Original version
+
Realized version
+
Text
-> Gil J. Wolman’s
L'Anticoncept (1951, 1:00:12)
+
Film
+
Text
+ Documents
WEEK 6
Tues March 3 - Seminar
-> Discuss Songs from Navigation (cheek & Jones; 1997)
-> Discuss Katrina Martin’s “Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema”
Thurs March 5 - Lab
-> Software: Animgifs (GIFfun, Photoshop)
-> Screen Brian Kim-Stefans’
The Dreamlife of Letters (2000)
+
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/stefans/dream/index.html
-> Bernadette Mayer’s
Experiments
WEEK 7
Tues March 10 - Seminar
-> Mid-Term Course Feedback
-> Discuss first half of “Film” (Kittler; pp 115-149)
-> Discuss selected poems from Ezra Pound’s Personae (1926)
Thurs March 12 - Lab
-> Screen Michael Snow’s So Is This (1982, 45:00)
WEEK 8
Tues March 17 - Seminar
-> Read aloud Section 10 of Kamau Braithwaite’s conVERSations
-> Discuss second half of “Film” (Kittler; pp 149-182)
Thurs March 19 - Lab
-> Screen Su Friedrich’s Gently Down the Stream (1981)
-> Screen Paul Sharits’ Word Movie (1966, 3:49)
-> Discuss selections from Richard Wagner’s The Art-Work of the Future (1849; Trans William Ashton Ellis)
[Spring Break: March 21-29]
WEEK 9
Tues March 31 - Seminar
-> Discuss first half of Open House (Weiner, 2007; pp 13-90)
-> Discuss selections of Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everday Life (1984)
Thurs April 2 - Lab
-> Software: CAVE Writing Text-Editor
-> Screen Prince’s Sign O’ The Times (1987)
WEEK 10
Tues April 7 - Seminar
-> Text Generation (with xerox packet)
-> Discuss second half of Open House (Weiner; pp 91-178)
Thurs April 9 - Lab [Passover]
-> Screen works by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
+
http://yhchang.com
-> Visit
http://www.alansondheim.org
WEEK 11
Tues April 14 - Seminar
-> Present Final Project Proposals
-> Discuss first half of “Typewriter” (Kittler; pp 183-221)
-> Discusss JODI
+
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
+
http://blogspot.jodi.org/
+
http://jodi.org
Thurs April 16 - Lab
-> Visit
Nasty Nets archive
+
http://nastynets.com/
-> Screen Keston Sutherland’s reading of
Hot White Andy (2007)
+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWMTted_5tA
WEEK 12
Tues April 21 - Seminar
-> Final Project Update
-> Read aloud “Speak Bitterness” by Forced Entertainment (1995)
-> Discuss second half of “Typewriter” (Kittler; pp 221-263)
Thurs April 23 - Lab
WEEK 13
Tues April 28 - Seminar
-> Discuss JH Prynne’s “The
Plant Time Manifold Transcripts” (1972)
-> Visit
Google Will Eat Itself
+
http://gwei.org/index.php
Thurs April 30 - Lab
-> Screen "These Words Are The Data" (1980s)
+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmrgnP509vc
WEEK 14
Tues May 5 - Seminar [Final Class]
-> Discuss John Cayley’s “The Code Is Not the Text Unless It Is The Text”
+
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/literal
TBA - Final Performances / Presentations