Titel

Advanced Fiction Writing

Teacher

Robert Arellano

Contact

www.brown.edu/Departments/English/Writing/
Hypertext/Workshop/

Place

Brown University, English Department

Semester

Springterm 2000

Description

Intensive workshop for rigorous experiments in narrative digital media. Students may propose projects including, but not limited to, hypertext fiction, text adventure, Web art, ambient audio, interactive cinema, virtual reality (desktop or immersive), and real-space installation or performance. Collaboration between authors, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and performance artists is encouraged and facilitated through introductory exercises. Weekly lab tutorials provide an overview of genres and technological options, so no familiarity with computers is required.

Sources
(Selection)

Comics
-Chris Ware

Film/Video/Animation
-Wenders, Wim: Mystery Train
-Linkater, Richard: Slacker
-Resnais, Alan: Providence
-Resnais, Alan: Last Year in Marienbad

Print
-Calvino, Italo: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
-Cortazar, Julio: Hopskotch
-Pavic, Milorad: Dictionary of the Khazars

Web
-New York Stories
-Superbad
-Day-dream
-Alt-x
-GRAMMATRON
-Sunshine '69
-Marsha's Throne Angels
-rice
-The Unknown
-Twilight

Scholary
Sources
(Selection)

Print
-Johnson, Steven: Interface Culture
-The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, Richard Miller (Translator)
-Of Two Minds : Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics by Michael Joyce
-How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles
-Hypertext 2.0 : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology by George P. Landow

Online Readings
-www.feedmag.com/html/document/
97.09bush/97.09bush_master.html

Articles
-Bush, Vannevar: "As We May Think"
-Coover, Robert: "The End of Books"
-Nelson, Ted: Literary Machines Discourse Networks pp. vii-69
-Nunberg, Geoffrey: The Place of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction