Unit 3: E-Poetic Dances – Electronic Literature and Digital Writing

Overview

Monday, June 13 – Visual and Sound Poetry – Essay #2 due.
Tuesday, June 14 – Introduction to Video Poetry
Wednesday, June 15 – Video Poets
Thursday, June 16 – Kinetic Poetry- synchronous class 6-8 pm. Research Paper Proposal due.
Friday, June 17 – Multimodal and VR Narratives
Monday, June 20 – Installations and Networked Writing – Essay #3 due

Assigned Material:
- Electronic Literature, Chapter 5
- Concrete Poetry:
  - Introduction to Concrete Poetry: A World View (1968)
  - “Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry“
  - Explore Flowers in Concrete by Mary Ellen Solt, carefully reading at least 2 of her poems.
  - Explore The Book of Hours and Constellations by Eugen Gömringer, carefully reading at least 2 of his poems.
- Sound Poetry:
  - See and read Paul de Vree’s Manifesto (1962)
  - Listen to “Kidz” and one other sound poem by Paul de Vree
  - Read “Seahorses and Flying Fish” (1916) by Hugo Ball (it’s a Dada poem with invented words, aside from the title) and listen to these two readings: Bob Marsh and Christian Bök
  - While you’re there, listen to a couple of Bök’s sound poems.
  - Listen to a couple of Kristin Oppenheim’s sound poems.
Writing:
- Write two short posts:
  - One on the verbivocovisual (verbal + vocal + visual) information than informs one of the assigned concrete poems.
  - One on how poetry that isn’t designed for the page uses different aural information to create meaning in the poem, as seen in one of the assigned poems.
- Post in our ASULearn forum today and respond substantively to at least 2 classmates’ postings by the following day.

Assigned Material:
- Watch this video on multimodality by Gunther Kress.
- Predecessor: Title sequences
  - Read this entry and watch the title sequence for North by Northwest.
  - Explore The Art of the Title
  - Read this entry on the Pinky and the Brain title sequence (1995)
- Videopoetry:
  - Tom Konyves “Introduction to the Concept and Theory of Videopoetry“
  - “Roda Lume” (1968) by E.M. Melo e Castro
  - “First Screening” (1984) by bpNichol
  - “Sign Language” (1985) by Tom Konyves
  - “Bring Back” (2017) by Rosamond King
Writing:
- Write a 250+ word response to the assigned material, discussing how writing on video/film allows poets to radically re-imagine poetry multimodally on time-based media.
- Post in our ASULearn forum today and respond substantively to at least 2 classmates’ postings by the following day.

Assigned material:
- “Typoems and Anipoems” by Ana María Uribe
- “Seattle Drift” by Jim Andrews
- “Strings” by Dan Waber
- “The Sweet Old Etcetera” by Alison Clifford
- “Thoughts Go” by David Knoebel
- “Ergon/Logos” by Paolo Pedercini (Molleindustria)
- The Method Detective “Case #21 ~ Sam Spade: “crime” by Alan Bigelow
Class will meet synchronously via Zoom from 6-8 pm.
At the beginning of the class, you will share your research paper topic/proposal verbally with the class. If you can’t attend, please email me (floresll@appstate.edu) your proposal.
Be prepared to discuss these assigned works in the context of kinetic e-poetry. What meaningful contributions to the poem do motion, multimodality, and interactivity offer the works?
If you cannot attend class, write a 250+ word piece in which you discuss the questions above, watch the recording of the class, and then respond to your post with a post-class reflection.

Assigned Material:
- “88 Constellations for Wittgenstein” by David Clark
- “Welcome to Pine Point” by The Goggles
- “Queerskins” by Illya Szilak (try the VR chapters, if you can, otherwise the novel)
- Explore Dreaming Methods and read at least one work (VR, Web, Apps, etc)
Writing:
- Write a 250+ word piece in which you discuss how the assigned works create and leverage immersive multimodal environments to tell stories.
- Post in our ASULearn forum today and respond substantively to at least 2 classmates’ postings by the following day.