Tuesday, October 20
- In class: (class meets in Zoom and BH 116)
- “When” by Ottar Ormstad
- “Fuck You” by Cee-lo Green
- “Word Crimes” by Weird Al Yankovic
- “Right Action” by Franz Ferdinand
- “Star Wars, One Letter at a Time” by Brian Kim Stefans
- Introduction to The Complete Works by Justin Stephenson
- Homework:
- Essay #2 due on Thursday, October 22.
Thursday, October 22
- Asynchronous class (no meeting):
- Watch The Complete Works by Justin Stephenson
- Explore the website for The Complete Works, especially the page titled The Film, which offers information on the visual poems.
- Write an 250 word response to the whole film, including an analysis of your assigned videopoem within the film. Unpack Stephenson’s strategies in your assigned videopoem, offering screenshots and a detailed discussion of how the visual and sound information work together and to what effect.
- Epigraph (0:00)
- Sound Poems (0:25)
- Introduction (0:44)
- Waiting (2:15)
- White Sound (3:54)
- The Historical bpNichol (5:07)
- The Mouth (6:09)
- The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid (7:22)
- Gorg: A Detective Story (9:40)
- Waiting (11:40)
- Assumptions (12:45)
- Ink’s Sin (14:35)
- Song for Saint Ein (15:33)
- The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 1: The Kid (16:15)
- Probably (15:37)
- Interrupted Nap (18:16)
- The Page is a Window (18:46)
- For the Memory of Robert Graves (20:02)
- The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 2: History (21:03)
- Interrupted Nap 2 (22:06)
- Music (22:38)
- [I Started to Write the Way I Draw] (22:58)
- White Sound (24:43)
- The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 3: The Town (27:06)
- Drum vs the Book (28:42)
- Interrupted Nap 3 (30:11)
- Probably 2 (30:46)
- (every(all at(toge(forever)ther)once)thing) (31:50)
- The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, Chapter 4: Why? (33:40)
- [I Always Said] (35:15)
- Waiting (36:14)
- Love Poem (37:22)
- Ghosts – Credits (39:00)
- Your primary post is due by Friday, October 20.
- Read and respond to at least 3 of your classmates’ posts by Tuesday, October 25.