Monday, October 9

• In class:
  • Discussion of Creative Assignment #2.
  • Lecture on the origins of video poetry:
    • Title Sequences:
      • Title Sequence for North by Northwest (1959) by Arthur Preminger
      • Pinky and the Brain Title Sequence (1995) by Bryan Evans, Tom Ruegger, et. al.
      • Cowboy Bebop (1998) by Cain Kuga
    • Video poetry
      • “Roda Lume” (1968) by E.M. de Melo e Castro
      • “Sign Language” (1985) by Tom Konyves
      • “The Dreamlife of Letters” (2000) and “Star Wars: One Letter at a Time” (2005) by Brian Kim Stefans
• Assignment:
  • Read:
    • Explore Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
    • Write a post in which you discuss one of their video poems. Link to the video poem you discuss.

Wednesday, October 11

In class:

• Discuss Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
• Discuss video poetry:
  • “Bring Back” (2017) by Rosamond King
  • “The Offline Website Project” (2019-2020) by Alex Saum-Pascual
  • “Big Data Poetry” (2020) by Diego Bonilla and Rodolfo Mata
• Discuss kinetic typography:
  • “Fuck You” by Cee Lo Green
  • “Right Action” by Franz Ferdinand (video by Jonas Odell)
  • EDMLyrics

Assignment:

• Explore/Read:
  • #kinetictypography on Instagram
  • #kinetictypography on YouTube, focusing less on tutorials and more on actual kinetic typography and lyric videos.
• Write a post in which you discuss one kinetic typography work in Instagram and one from YouTube. Provide links to the works.

Friday, October 13

Zoom Class (link in syllabus and ASULearn)

• Be prepared to share and discuss your kinetic typography links and videos.
• Assignment #2 due.
• Midterm Self Assessment due (see ASULearn)

Assignment:

• Enjoy Fall Break!

Monday, October 16

Fall Break: no class.

Wednesday, October 18

Zoom class

• Lecture on kinetic e-poetry:
  • “Velocity” (2000) by Tina Escaja
  • “Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Systems Theory” (2015) by Tan Lin
  • “Thoughts Go” (2000) by David Knoebel
  • “Loss, Undersea” by D. Fox Harrell
  • “Acts in Translation” by Dalena Tran

Assignment:

• Watch/Read:
  • Rettberg, Electronic Literature, Chapter 5: Kinetic and Interactive Poetry
  • “A Modern Ghost” by Artemio Morales
  • “The Vine and the Fish” by Leise Hook
  • “Upgrade Soul” by Ezra Claytan Daniels, Erik Loyer

Friday, October 20

Asynchronous Class

• In our forum, write a post on two of the assigned works:
  • “A Modern Ghost” by Artemio Morales
  • “The Vine and the Fish” by Leise Hook
  • “Upgrade Soul” by Ezra Claytan Daniels, Erik Loyer
• Post by Saturday, respond to a classmate’s by Monday