Tuesday, August 25

In class:

• Memory Slam
• Strategies for reading computational writing

Assignment (for next class):

• 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 the ending of the poem. Post before class on Thursday.

Thursday, August 27

In class:

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

Assignment (for next class):

• 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, September 1

In class:

• NaNoGenMo & NaNoGenMo Guide

Assignment (for next class):

• 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, September 3

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 (for next class):

• 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.