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| 1 | | | | Introduction, Video: L’île Aux Fleurs. | | | | Read Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.”
Lightman, Alan. Einstein’s Dreams. Read excerpts. | |
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| 2 | | | | Non-linearity and Multiple Perspectives. Narrative Design Project | | | | Nelson, Theodor. Literary Machines. Read excerpts.
Watch Nelson Video (Language Lab).
Goldenberg, Robert. “Talmud.” In Back to the Sources. Pp. 129-151. | |
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| 3 | | | | Multi-form Narratives, Design Project | | | | Read texts by Wolfgang Iser, Umberto Eco, Hans Jauss, George Poulet, Roland Barthes.
Develop Narrative Design Concept. | |
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| 4 | | | | Authorship/Readership & Experimental Literature: Raymond Queneau, George Perec, Julio Cortázar.
| | | | Oulipo. | |
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| 5 | | | | Experimental Literature. | | | | Read Joyce, Dante, Landow, Eco (excerpts). | |
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| 6 | | | | Encyclopedic Narratives:
Dante's Inferno. Directed by Peter Greenaway.
Dante. The Divine Comedy.
Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake.
Schmidt, Arno. Zettels Traum. | | | | | |
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| 7 | | | | Transformations: Project 1 due Class Presentations | | | | | |
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| 8 | | | | Creating Narrative Spaces with Audio First Paper due – Audio Art | | | | Watch Ruttmann, Walter. Weekend, and Remixes. | |
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| 9 | | | | Ruttmann, Walter. Weekend, and Remixes. | | | | | |
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| 10 | | | | Wühr, Paul. Soundseeing Munich.
Fontana, Bill. Cologne-Kyoto Sound-Bridge. Revision of First Paper due | | | | Manovich, Lev. "Database." In The Language of New Media . Pp. 213-243 | |
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| 11 | | | | Discussion of Manovich, "Database." | | | | Work on Audio Projects | |
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| 12 | | | | Murray, Janet. Authors @ MIT.
Discussion of Manovich, "Database." (cont.) | | | | Work on Audio Projects | |
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| 13 | | | | Audio Projects Presentations | | | | | |
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| 14 | | | | Hypertext Fiction, Net literature.
Second Paper due | | | | Murray, Janet. "Properties of Digital Media." | |
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| 15 | | | | Hypertext Fiction, Net literature.
| | | | Watch Groundhog Day, Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors. (Film Office) | |
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| 16 | | | | Multi-linear Narratives: Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors, Groundhog Day.
| | | | Watch Interactive Movie: Tender Loving Care (LLRC).
Read Article on Interactive Narratives. | |
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| 17 | | | | Interactive Narratives: Berliner Sehen.
Interactive Movie: Tender Loving Care. | | | | Assignment: Watch Memento. | |
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| 18 | | | | ELIZA and Artificial Intelligence Projects. | | | | | |
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| 19 | | | | Exploration and Critique of Interactive Narratives.
Conversation Based Narratives: ELIZA, and No Recuerdo (by Douglas Morgenstern). | | | | Select a Game for Presentation Read articles on Narratives in Games. | |
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| 20 | | | | Analysis of Games and their Narrative Structures. Game Presentations Third Paper due | | | | | |
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| 21 | | | | Gallery Visit - David Small - The Illuminated Manuscript.
| | | | Read Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, letters 14 and 15, and Henry Jenkins, "Game Design as Narrative Architecture." | |
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| 22 | | | | Games as Narratives/Games as Play – Visit by Danish Researcher. | | | | | |
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| 23 | | | | Project Prototypes for Final Project | | | | Work on Final Project | |
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| 24 | | | | Fourth Paper due | | | | Work on Final Project | |
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| 25 | | | | Final Project Presentations | | | | | |
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| 26 | | | | Media Spectacle (Public Presentations of Final Projects) | | | | | |
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