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January
14 intro: "digital environments, n-dimensional texts"

16 Manovich, chapt. 1, "What is New Media?"

TYPE

21 Manovich, chapt. 2, "The Interface"

23 guest lecture: Prof. Nicole Ferentz (FIne Arts), on the history of typography

28 Drucker "Written Image," "Intimations of Immateriality" (In RT)

30 Caws, "Taking Textual Time" (in RT); McCort, "Titles Throughout Time;" motion graphics examples: 1, 2, 3, 4

BOOK/cinema

February.
4 Blake, The [First] Book Of Urizen; Eaves, "Graphicality" (in RT)

6 Drucker, "The Artist's Book;" Kirschenbaum, "Machine Visions"

11 Clowes, Ghost World (the book)

13 McCloud, Reinventing Comics (esp. 6-24; 128-241); McCloud Website (and its links)

18 Ghost World (the movie)

20 cont'd

25 Manovich, chapt. 6, "What is Cinema?"

27 Manovich, chapt. 3a-b, pp. 117-160

March
4 spring break
6 spring break

book/HYPERTEXT

11 Gibson, Agrippa; Drucker, "Cyber | literature" (in EBR)

13 Joyce, Afternoon (on diskette or in the English department)

18 Moulthrop, "Testing the Wires" (in RT); Memmot, "ecepholapedia"
20 no class

25 Joyce, "Twelve Blue;" Joyce and Guyer, "Lasting Image"

27 Moulthrop, "Victory garden" (demo); "Reagan Library"

E*magazines

April
1 Poems that Go; Aspen Magazine; Charles Bernstein; Manovich, "Database" (pp. 218-43)

3 Electronic Book Review; Mr. Beller's Neighborhood; Romantic Circles

GAMING

8 no class

10 no class

15 Myst, etc.; Aarseth, chapt. 5

17 Jones,"Book of Myst"; Manovich, chapt. 5b, "Navigable Space"

22 MOO

24 MOO