Tuesday

In class:

• Memory Slam
• Strategies for reading computational writing

Assignment:

• Read
  • The Marble Canyons in Beautiful Taroko National Park, Taiwan
  • Nick Montfort, “Taroko Gorge”
• Write a brief discussion of how Montfort’s poem seeks to capture the experience of the Taroko gorge and how he ends the poem. Post before class on Thursday.

Thursday

In class:

• The Marble Canyons in Beautiful Taroko National Park, Taiwan
• Nick Montfort, “Taroko Gorge”
• Nick Montfort, “Taroko Gorge” (remix link version)

Assignment:

• Watch “Distant Writing” (recorded lecture)
• Explore NaNoGenMo, using my NaNoGenMo Guide to read/explore 8-10 novels.
• Write a post in which you apply the concept of distant writing as discussed in my lecture to 3 NaNoGenMo works. Post before our next class.

Tuesday

In class:

• NaNoGenMo & NaNoGenMo Guide

Assignment:

• Read:
  • ”Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl” by J.R. Carpenter
  • ”Who Were You Before Your Parents Were Born” by Loss Pequeño Glazier
  • ”Sea and Spar Between” by Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort
• Write a detailed analysis of the poetic and computational strategies used in one of the assigned poems. Post before class.

Thursday

In class:

• ”Notes on the Voyage of Owl and Girl” by J.R. Carpenter
• ”Who Were You Before Your Parents Were Born” by Loss Pequeño Glazier
• ”Sea and Spar Between” by Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort

Assignment:

• Read
  • Explore Finding ELIZA
  • ”The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history”
  • Explore the bot collection in the Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 3
  • Write a reaction/response to two of the bots you read in the collection. This is due before class.