Week 8: Moving Language – Three Generations of Electronic Literature

Week 8: Moving Language

Tuesday, March 5 In class: Midterm Exam Assignment: Read Electronic Literature (pgs. 118-131) Major Assignment #1 due on Thursday Thursday, March 7 In class: Discussion of Kinetic Poetry antecedents Explore The Art of the Title Turn in Major Assignment #1 – Upload a digital copy to our Google Drive folder (UPR login required), and bring […]

Tuesday, March 5

In class: Midterm Exam
Assignment:
- Read Electronic Literature (pgs. 118-131)
- Major Assignment #1 due on Thursday

Thursday, March 7

In class:
- Discussion of Kinetic Poetry antecedents
- Explore The Art of the Title
- Turn in Major Assignment #1 – Upload a digital copy to our Google Drive folder (UPR login required), and bring a printed copy to class. If you chose the creative option and have a work hosted online, provide a link to your work in your short paper.
Assignment:
- Readings/Viewings:
  - “Roda Lume” (1968) by E.M. Melo e Castro
  - “First Screening” (1984) by bpNichol
  - “Sign Language” (1985) by Tom Konyves
  - This entry on the Pinky and the Brain title sequence (1995)
- Write a post in our Facebook group in which you respond to two of the assigned videopoems above. This post is due before class on Tuesday, March 12.