Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2012)

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:

Title	Author	Year
afternoon, a story	Michael Joyce	1990
Code Movie 1	Giselle Beiguelman	2004
Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw	Donna Leishman	2004
Façade	Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern	2005
Oulipoems	Millie Niss, Martha Deed	2004
Roulette	Daniel C. Howe, Feliz L. Molina	2008
Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]	Talan Memmott	2003
Star Wars, One Letter at a Time	Brian Kim Stefans	2005
Stir Fry Texts	Jim Andrews, Brian Lennon, Pauline Masurel	1999
Storyland	Nanette Wylde	2002

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading	Talan Memmott	2006
Born Digital	Stephanie Strickland	2009
Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms	Whitney Anne Trettien	2009
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	1997
Dada Redux: Elements of Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2008
Electronic Literature: What is it?	N. Katherine Hayles	2007
Looking Behind the Façade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama	Jörgen Schäfer	2009
Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics	Michael Joyce	2002
Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995	Chris Funkhouser	2007
The Language of New Media	Lev Manovich	2000
The New Media Reader		2003
The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration	William Gillespie	2000
The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them	Brenda Laurel	2003
Understanding Video Games: the Essential Introduction	Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca	2008

Teaching resource referenced:

Title	Author	Year
51 Responses: What inspired you to get involved with Digital Literature	David Jhave Johnston	2009
Electronic Literature Explained	Mark C. Marino	2010

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