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Monday, February 19 In class: Brief history of video games: “Spacewar!” (1962) “Asteroids” (1979) “Centipede” (1980) “Adventure” (1980) “Dragon’s Lair” (1983) “Myst” (1993) “Lambda Blaster” (2022) by Sebastian Bartlett Hernández “Arteroids” (2001) by Jim Andrews “Going the Distance” (2023) by Lee Tusman Jason Nelson’s Flash Games on The Next Creative Work #1 Due Assignment: Play…

Monday, February 12 In class: “Colossal Cave Adventure” by Will Crowther and Don Woods “Galatea” by Emily Short (click “play online”, check out the walk throughs after playing) Concept: “Procedural Rhetoric“ “Thoughts and Prayers: The Game” by Mike Lacher “Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition” by Mike Mika “The Hunt for the Gay Planet” by Anna Anthropy…

Monday, February 5 In class: Taper Creative Project #1 proposals Interactivity in digital works: “Uncle Roger” by Judy Malloy Assignment: Read Rettberg, Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction Finish reading “Uncle Roger” and read “My Body: A Wunderkammer” by Shelley Jackson In our forum, write a brief post about how hypertext is used to structure…

Monday, January 22 In class: What is digital writing? What is digital literature? Frank O’Hara, “Why I Am Not a Painter“ Hotel in Limbo Fight Club kinetic typography The Marble Canyons in Beautiful Taroko National Park, Taiwan Nick Montfort, “Taroko Gorge“ Strategies for reading generative writing Assignment: Read Rettberg, Electronic Literature, Chapter 2: Combinatory Poetics…

Course Introduction Welcome to ENG 2360: American Literature and the Arts, which will be taught with the subtitle: Underrepresented Voices in Digital Literature. Here’s a brief FAQ on the course: What is digital literature? Digital writing takes advantage of the potential digital technologies have to offer beyond the limits of the page. Digital literature (aka…

Monday, November 27 In class: Lecture and discussion of Loss Pequeño Glazier’s work. Website “White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares“ Assignment: Read your assigned work and its source code: First name A-F: “Etymon” First name G-K: “Cuchutexto” First name L-N: “io sono” First name O-Z: “middle orange” Read “A Shifting Electronic Text: Close Reading White-Faced Bromeliads…

Monday, November 20 – class meets via Zoom In class: Lecture and discussion of Neal Agarwal’s work. Website Neal.fun Assignment: Explore Neal.fun Write a post in which you discuss Neal Agarwal’s approach to digital writing and thematic interests as seen in two of his works. This is due by Wednesday. Wednesday, November 22 – Academic…

Monday, November 13 In class: Lecture and discussion of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s work Website Poetry Foundation page “for the pool players at the Golden Shovel” (Reference: We Real Cool) “Weights and Measures” Assignment: Read: ELO 2022 Readings Write a post in which you discuss two of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s digital poems, focusing on how the poem’s design…

Monday, November 6 In class: Research Paper Lecture and discussion of Jason Edward Lewis’ work Website PoEMM Website (has videos with interactions) PoEMM: The Album Assignment: Read: PoEMM: The Album Write a post in which you discuss two of Jason Edward Lewis’ poems, focusing on how the poem’s form matches the content. Wednesday, November 8…