Electronic Literature XSchedule 18

Further All READING/PLAYING SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE CLASS UNLESS THE SCHEDULE INDICATES OTHERWISE. DOWNLOAD GAMES IN GOOD TIME TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN!

Mon Aug 27  – introduction of syllabus and selves, interests and skills

Wed Aug 29

• READ: Hamlet on the Holodeck, Chapter 5, Agency (pdf mailed to you)
• Look at examples from Library of Congress Electronic Literature and its Emerging Forms Exhibition, 2013
• Preview works from categories below

Mon Sept 3 – LABOR DAY

Wed Sept 5 – Overview Lecture : affordances, challenges, tools based on examples on from Wed Aug 29

Read:

• “On Evolving and Emerging Literary Forms:  A Curatorial Statement for ‘Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms” by Dene Grigar, 2013
• “E-Literature At the Library of Congress: The Catalog and the Ephemeral” by Kathi Inman Berens, 2013

Mon Sept 10 – Origins

READ: Deena Larsen’s Metaphorical Interfaces by Leonardo Flores

Watch/Play:

• Project Documentation: Luc Courchesne
  • explore/installations/landscape 1, 1997 (read, watch 17 min video)
• Deena Larsen Marble Springs  Eastgate Systems, 1993
  • emulation site
  • Help! how to read Marble Spring
• MarbleSpringsExamplePresentation

Wed Sept 12 – Tools – – basic story structures -room 242

• READ: : Interactive Story Structures
• Round up of skills, desires
  • Twine
    • link to upload html files
  • Ren’Py
  • HTML 5
    • hello world
    • html5 and css from the beginning
    • HTML5 and css tutorials and documentation – html, & video javascript tool
  • Game Engines
    • Unity 3D
  • NL generation, etc etc (see October 16 for links)
  • Twitter bot
    • CheapBotsDoneQuick 
  • Locative tools
    • radio aporee ::: miniatures for mobiles
• Creative Exercise – Do the exercise here – there is no wrong way to do it! It’s an exercise to get you thinking! You may think about using the story structure ideas or not.
• First Project using tool-set you want/learning tool set continue the exercise you began on paper in the class room.
• Sign up for Presentations – hand in three ranked choices for presentations

Mon Sept 17 –  Images and Text

• Play:
  • The Shoot Out by Alan Bigelow
  •  Underbelly by Christine Wilk
  • The Gathering Cloud by J.R. Carpenter
• Presentation Groups assigned.

Wed Sept 19 – Tools  – room 242

• Pitch ideas for a group project
• Workshops on particular tech/OR/work on first project

Mon Sept 24 – Panel Presentation 1: Location Based Story: Brian, Sarah

• READ: A Manifesto for Ambient Literature by Tom Abba
• PLAY: “It Must Have Been Dark by then.” By Duncan Speakman/Ambient Lit
• READ ABOUT:
  • Ambient Literature
• Radio Aporee/Mobile Miniatures https://aporee.org/aporee.html
  • Rimini Protokoll, e.g. 10aktenkilometer

Wed Sept 26– First Project DUE – room 242

• Show, tell, cry.
• START Final Project

Mon Oct 1 – Panel Presentation 2: Games (Terry, Kate, Carlito)

• WHOLE CLASS: READ or WATCH
  • VideoGames as Unnatural Narrative by Astrid Ensslin
    
    https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/7178360/PDB5367-00.pdf
•  PLAY
  • Braid by Jonathan Blow
  • The Stanley Parable
  • WHOLE CLASS: Save the Date by Chris (PLAY AT LEAST TWICE)

Wed Oct 3 – Locative Tools – room 242 Brian and Sarah

• Radio Aporee https://aporee.org/aporee.html
• Violence Hub – in class exercise

Mon Oct 8 – Panel Presentation 3: Physical Devices and Mobile Media (Lewuga, Lawrence, Sherif, meetings Saturday, September 29 & Saturday, October 6th)

• WHOLE CLASS READ Torben Grodal, Stories for Eye, Ear, and Muscles: Video Games, Media and Embodied Experiences The Video Game Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003. 129-156
• PLAY
  • Cayley The Listeners  Project for Alexa
  • Samantha Gorman Pry for iphone, ipad
  • WHOLE CLASS –  Jason Edward Lewis – Poetry for Excitable [Mobile] Media
  • WHOLE CLASS – watch videos: Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek – book + online videos

Wed Oct 10 – (room 242)

• Elevator Pitch descriptions of Project
• Further Discussion of Planning Documents – working on plan in class

Mon Oct 15 – Panel Presentation 4: Programmatic/Procedural (Andrew, Nicholas, Jeremy, meetings Oct 5th, Oct 12th))

• WHOLE CLASS WATCH first 10 minutes: Allison Parrish – Exploring (Semantic) Space With (Literal) Robots
• READ: Jason Edward Lewis et al, “Making kin with the machines.” AI-Human relationships
• CHECK OUT: NaNoGenMo – spend November writing code to write a novel
  • e.g I Waded in Clear Water by Allison Parrish
• WHOLE CLASS CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE: Michael Mateas et al. Playabl.ai
• READ ABOUT:
  • Sheldon County by James Ryan
  • For sleepers in the quiet earth by Sofian Audry
• Naho Matsuda ‘data poetry’

Wed Oct 17 (room 242)

• Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort, and variations and how to make your own remix
• Talking version of Eliza, standard version of Eliza
• Tensorflow https://www.tensorflow.org/
  An open source machine learning framework for everyone – Java script
• ML5 neural net. https://github.com/ml5js
  Friendly machine learning for the web
• Wekinator – http://www.wekinator.org/
  is free, open source software originally created in 2009 by Rebecca Fiebrink. It allows anyone to use machine learning to build new musical instruments, gestural game controllers, computer vision or computer listening systems, and more.

Lecture: Molly Wright Steenson: AI and Stories of Autonomous Landscapes

Mon Oct 22 – Panel Presentation 5: Long Form Works (Carlye, Gabe, Chibeom, meetings Oct 5th, Oct 12th)

• READ: Michael Mateas, “A preliminary poetics for interactive drama and games.” Digital Creativity, vol 12, number 3, 2001, pages 140-152
• PLAY:
  • WHOLE CLASS: Luers, Smith, Dean “Novelling” winner of ELO prize 2018
  • Firewatch

Wed Oct 24 – Present Project Planning Docs

• Peer Groups: Tech Q and As

Mon Oct 29 – Panel Presentation 6: (Why) Work without Words (Wenchao, Emily M, Quynh, meetings Oct 1 and)

• CHECK OUT
  • Steve Symons aura: the stuff around the stuff around you
  • Christina Kubisch, Electrical Walks
• PLAY: The Path by Tale of Tales (Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn)
• READ
  • The Path Post Mortem
  • WHOLE CLASS The Contradiction Of Linearity, Michael Samyn WHOLE CLASS
• 

Wed Oct 31 – Panel Presentation 7:Playing with your Mind/Body (Emily D, Rachel, Yiheng)

• Karen by Blast Theory
  • How we made Karen – WHOLE CLASS
•  Queerskins – interactive online experience
• HerStory Game

Mon Nov 5 – Machinima & Web Series

• Skawennati (In class)
• Lizzie Bennet Diaries by Hank Green and Bernie Su

Wed Nov 7 (room 242)

•  TEST PLAYING first version of PROJECTS

Mon Nov 12 – Last Words/Works

• J.R. Carpenter This is a picture of wind
  • Group 1 – Describe the project – literally and metaphorically
    • content/story being told
    • lay out – what changes, what stays the same
    • images/text/icons/numbers
  • Group 2 – Analysis
    • purpose of lay out/images/texts/ icons/numbers
    • how this lay-out tells this story
    • experience of playing/reading
• Maria Mencia – The Winnipeg
  • Group 1 – Describe the project – literally and metaphorically
    • content/story being told
    • lay out of project – different pages – what is on each one?
    • lay out of each page
    • images/text/icons/design
  • Group 2 – Analysis
    • purpose of ay out/images/texts/icons/design
    • how this lay-out serves this purpose
    • experience of playing/reading

Wed Nov 14 – Work on Projects & Test Play

• TEST PLAY Yiheng, Terry, Emily D, Quynh, Carlitos, Brian, Nicholas, Jeremy, Sarah, Lawrence
• Any tech issues?

Mon Nov 19 –

• Sarah on Judy Malloy, Arriving Simultaneously on Multiple Far-Flung Systems
• Lewuga on Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek
• Skawenneti – She Falls for Ages
• Red versus Blue (start at 1:31)

Wed Nov 21 – FALL RECESS

Twine

• link to upload html files

Mon Nov 26 – Demos/Reading/Performances and Critiques

• Carlye, Gabe, Emily D, Kate, Rachel, Lawrence

Wed Nov 28 – Demos/Reading/Performances and Critiques

• Andy Bae, Yiheng, Carlitos, Terry, Lewuga, Jeremy

Mon Dec 3 – Demos/Reading/Performances and Critiques

• Emily M, Sherif, Andrew Benson, Nicholas, Sara, Wenchao, Quynh

Wed Dec 5 – Demos/Reading/Performances and Critique –

• Brian FIELD TRIP – meet in classroom 242 to arrange rides
• Download radio aporee app before class – radio aporee ::: miniatures for mobiles

Friday Dec 14 – 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!!!