Schedule

January
Wed., 17: Introduction: What is New Media Literacy?
Fri., 19: Set up blogs

Mon., 22: Vannever Bush, “As We May Think”
Wed., 24: Ben Schneiderman, “Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Lan-guages”
Fri., 26: What is a GUI? / “The NLS demo by Douglas Engelbart” / Jeff Han demo

Mon., 29: Ted Nelson’s “Computer Lib / Dream Machines”
Wed., 31: “Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib / Dream Machines”

February
Fri., 2: Dream Machines
• “Eliza”
• Plasma Pong
• Electric Sheep Comix

Mon., 5: Robert Coover, “The End of Books” / Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Freewrite 1 on Dream Machines and GUIs due
Wed., 7: Stuart Moulthrop “You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media” Fri., 9: Conceptual Interactive Fiction
• Talan Memmott
• Stuart Moulthrop
• Shelly Jackson

Mon., 12: Michael Joyce “Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts”
Wed., 14: Stephanie Strickland “Moving Through Me as I Move: A Paradigm of Interac-tion”
Fri., 16: Conceptual Interactive Poetry
• Daniel Howe, “Text Curtain”
• Juliet Martin, “oooxxxooo”
• Stephanie Strickland, “The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot”
• Thom Swiss, “The Narrative You Anticipate You May Produce”

Mon., 19: President’s Day
Wed., 21: Viewing of Time Codes
Freewrite 2 on hypertext literature due
Fri., 23: 3 Viewing of Time Codes

Mon., 26: Lev Manovich, “New Media from Borges to HTML”
Wed., 28: Scott McCloud, “Time Frames” / Blog review

March
Fri., 2: Animated Textual Experiences
• Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “Dakota”
• Chris Martin, “Intimate Alice”
• William Poundstone, “Project for Tachistoscope [Bottomless Pit]”

Mon., 5: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Wed., 7: Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Fri., 9: Rachel Greene, Internet Art

Mon., 12: Spring Break
Wed., 14: Spring Break
Fri., 16: Spring Break

Mon., 19: “Six Selections by the Oulipo”
Freewrite 3 on internet art due
Wed., 21: William Burroughs, “The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin”/ Writely exercise
Fri., 23: Oulipo Inspired Work
• Geoffrey Ryman, “354”
• Scott McCloud, “The Carl Comix”
• Christian Bok, “Eunoia”
• Levi Lehto, “Get a Google Poem”
• The Pornolizer
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin, David Durand et. al., “Regime Change”

Mon., 26: Chip Morningstar, et al “The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat”
Wed., 28: Sherry Turkle, “Video Games and Computer Holding Power”
Fri., 30: Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”

April
Mon., 2: Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Freewrite 4 on internet culture due
Wed., 4: Preceptorial Advising
Fri., 6: Video Games and Literary Art
• John Cayley, Giles Perring, Douglas Cape, “What We Will”
• Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas, “Façade”
• Emily Short, “Galatea”
• Neil Hennessy, “Basho's Frogger”
• Slamdance Guerilla Games: http://www.slamdance.com/games/

Mon., 9: Espen Aarseth, Introduction to Cybertext
Wed., 11: Eric Zimmerman “Narrative, Interactivity, Play and Games: Four Naughty Con-cepts in Need of Discipline”
Fri., 13: New Media for Educators
• Vicq de Cumptich, “Bembo's Zoo”
• Camille Utterbeck, “Text Rain”
• Jeffrey Shaw, “Legible City”

Mon., 16: Detournement and Appropriation readings
Freewrite 5 on video games due
Wed., 18: UBUweb and concrete poetry
Fri., 20: Web Parody
• Shawn Rider, “myBALL”
• Machinima
• “All Your Base Are Belong to Us”

Mon., 23: Final Presentations
Wed., 25: Final Presentations
Fri., 27: Final Presentations

Mon., 30: Wrap-up