Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2011)

Teaching Resource
Type: 
Syllabus
Language: 
English
Author: 
Jill Walker Rettberg
Patricia Tomaszek
Mark C. Marino
Rita Raley
Organization: 
University of Bergen, Program in Digital Culture
Web: 
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games
Year: 
2011
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digital artelectronic literaturegamesgenreantecedents
Abstract (in English): 

A introductory level BA course taught in the Digital Culture program at the University of Bergen. For each genre section, the course provides three-week introductions to genres of cultural artifacts particular to the network and the computer, specifically computer and network art, electronic literature, and computer games. Students in the course will learn to analyze contemporary digital artifacts on a textual and structural basis, within the general framework of genre studies.

Creative works referenced:

Titlesort descending Author Year
After Parthenope Scott Rettberg 2011
afternoon, a story Michael Joyce 1990
Dakota Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Young-Hae Chang, Marc Voge 2001
Entre Ville J. R. Carpenter 2006
Faith Robert Kendall 2002
in absentia J. R. Carpenter 2008
my body — a Wunderkammer Shelley Jackson 1997
Roulette Daniel C. Howe, Feliz L. Molina 2008
slippingglimpse Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Paul Ryan 2007
Star Wars, One Letter at a Time Brian Kim Stefans 2005
Stir Fry Texts Jim Andrews, Brian Lennon, Pauline Masurel 1999
The Dreamlife of Letters Brian Kim Stefans 2000
These Waves of Girls: A Hypermedia Novella Caitlin Fisher 2001
This is how you will die Jason Nelson 2005
windsound John Cayley 1999

Critical writing referenced:

Titlesort descending Author Year
Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading Talan Memmott 2006
Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms Whitney Anne Trettien 2009
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Espen Aarseth 1997
Holopoetry, Biopoetry and Digital Literature: Close Reading and Terminological Debates Roberto Simanowski 2007
How to Construct the Genre of Digital Poetry: A User Manual Friedrich W. Block 2010
New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write Adalaide Morris 2006
Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 Chris Funkhouser 2007
The Definition of Hypertext and its History as a Concept George P. Landow 1992
The Language of New Media Lev Manovich 2000
The New Media Reader 2003
The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration William Gillespie 2000
Understanding Video Games: the Essential Introduction Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca 2008
What is Electronic Writing? Brian Kim Stefans 2006
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