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ENGL 197 - Fall 2005, Rita Raley



Mon, 9/26	Introduction to the course

Wed, 9/28

Interference

Readings Due: Talan Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia

Recommended Readings: Mark Amerika, "active/onBlur: an interview with Talan Memmott"

Mon, 10/3

Net.wurked language

Readings Due: Mez, _the data][h!][bleeding texts_
Visual explanation of programming languages (Webopedia)

Wed, 10/5

Net.wurked language (cont.)

Readings Due: Mez, “_Net.Drenching_Creating the Co[de][i]n.Text_”
Mez, -][selec][text: co][deP][l][oetry] _
Florian Cramer, “Program Code Poetry” and "Digital Code and Literary Text"

Mon, 10/10

Visual & operational code

Readings Due: Ted Warnell, “Lascaux.Symbol.ic,” “VIRU2,” “Berlioz,” “Obsession,” "Code Poetry," "cDNA Clone," "Triumph of Content"
Ted Warnell interview on the poetics of programming (trAce)
Alan Sondheim, "Codework" (American Book Review [2001])

Recommended Readings: Ted Warnell, Poem by Nari db.11x8.5 (new work) | Virtual Lascaux and superimposed engravings |

Wed, 10/12

Code poetry & codework

Readings Due: Jutta Steidl, "If ( ) then ( )"
Hari Kunzru, "GodmachineTM v.1.0.4" (handout)
Alan Sondheim, "On Code and Codework" and "Coding, encoding, confusion"
Browse _Net & Codeworkers Inc[ubation]_ gallery

Mon, 10/17

A cultural history of code poetics

Readings Due: Florian Cramer, Word Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination

Wed, 10/19

A cultural history of code poetics (cont.)

Readings Due: Florian Cramer, Word Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination

Mon, 10/24

Code & virus art

Readings Due: Browse "I Love You" (digitalcraft.org) | "CODeDOC" (Whitney Artport) | Code (year01.com)

Recommended Readings: Sol LeWitt (Guggenheim arts curriculum)

Wed, 10/26	Tech training session
	Meet Transcriptions TA Kimberly Knight in SH 2509.

Mon, 10/31

Computational text

Readings Due: John Cayley, with Giles Perring, Overboard (follow instructions to install sound fonts)
Cayley, “Overboard: An Example of Ambient Time-Based Poetics in digital art”

Wed, 11/2

Translations, I

Readings Due: John Cayley, Translation (first download and install fixed-width font and sounds in archive from here) | Translation information page

Recommended Readings: Brian Kim Stephans, "The Dreamlife of Letters" | Cayley on transliteral morphing

Mon, 11/7

Translations, II

Readings Due: Warren Sack and Sawad Brooks, Translation Map (also see proposal)
Muntadas, On Translation: The Internet Project
Lost in Translation
Genco Gulan, “interactive poem / etkilesimli sir” (description | text)

Recommended Readings: Binary Translator

Wed, 11/9

Literature & digital codes

Readings Due: N. Katherine Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (pp. 1-61)

Mon, 11/14

Literature & digital codes (cont.)

Readings Due: N. Katherine Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (pp. 62-116)

Wed, 11/16	The virtual class
	Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, "The California Ideology" Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinstein, "Theory of the Virtual Class"

Mon, 11/21

Control & regulation

Readings Due: Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Free Software Foundation (also see wikipedia entry)
Open source movement (wikipedia)

Recommended Readings: Code.v.2 wiki | Lessig Blog |Steven Levy profile of Lessig (Wired, October 2002) | Free Software Magazine

Wed, 11/23

Protocols

Readings Due: Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (pp. 2-53)

Mon, 11/28

Protocols (cont.)

Readings Due: Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (pp. 146-173, 208-246)

Wed, 11/30

Hacktivism & browser art

Readings Due: Jodi.org | wwwwwwwww.jodi.org
Browse art projects: Anti-Capitalist Operating System | etoy | I/O/D | 0100101110101101.org
Culture jamming (wikipedia)

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