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Schedule

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Wk. 1: Tue. 1/16 Intro. & Begin Word & Image Lecture

 

Thur. 1/18:  Word & Image Lecture

Scott Helmes, “Non-Additive Postulates” and “Division of the Soul”

Rimma & Valery Gerlovin , “Be(lie)ve” & “Absolute-Relative”

Lesley Dill / Emily Dickinson, “Blue Poem Girl”.  Shelley Jackson, from SKIN

Lee Siegel, from Love in a Dead Language, “The Kama Sutra Classic Comic”

Excerpts from RAW

 

5-Panel Assignment + Animate a portion: title, panel, or other software application.

 

Wk. 2: Tue. 1/23: Visual Narrative (Wordless Story Telling):

Richard McGuire, “Here” (in RAW).

Lynd Ward, God’s Man (excerpts on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/Gods_Man.html?id=Trp7cinl8uYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false).

Daren Rabinovitch, Tactical Advantage (film). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC55f3bVEks

Signature montage from The Simpsons (video).

Bruce Conner, A Movie (video) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x248brc

Godfrey Reggio dir., Philip Glass composer; Ron Fricke (cinematography). Koyaanisqatsi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4MXPIpj5sA

And on reserve: https://reserves.library.nd.edu/courses/201720_69/reserves

Francis Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedESyQEnMA

---  El Gringo. http://francisalys.com/el-gringo/  

--- El Ensayo. http://francisalys.com/el-ensayo/

 

Thur. 1/25: Medium & Tech Overview (class 1): MEET IN RARE BOOK ROOM, Hesburgh Library

Print/Material/Installation:

                  Johanna Drucker, Narratology (in Rare Book Room; see online:

http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/works/narr.xml)

Johanna Drucker, Against Fiction (in Rare Book Room)

Primo Levi, “Carbon” (with illustrations by Yosuke Taki) in Rare Book Room. PDF of Text.

Tom Phillips, A Humument

Jen Bervin, from Nets <http://jenbervin.com/projects/nets>

Ann Carson, Nox.

Shelly Jackson, “Skin.” <https://ineradicablestain.com/skindex.html>

Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse, from Between Page and Screen (online)

                  http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com/about

Caroline Bergvall, “Say Parsley” (video online) <https://vimeo.com/80808347>

Scott Rettberg, Roderick Coover, Daria Tsoupikova and Arthur Nishimoto. Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project. See video sample: <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1162/LEON_a_01235>

Low Tech:

J.R. Carpenter, "Les huit quartiers du sommeil" (online): https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=45.503219%2C-73.56462499999998&spn=0.058111%2C0.129089&hl=en&t=k&oe=UTF-8&msa=0&z=13&ie=UTF8&om=1&mid=1Qq__nsQ7fOWPP7f5XRvXQ6Fxxhs

Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project: http://aleksandarhemon.com/lazarus/#

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “Dakota” (online) and “Nippon” (online) <http://www.yhchang.com/>

Shelly Jackson, Patchwork Girl. Eastgate. ISBN: 1-884511-23-6.

Electronic Literature Organization Collection Vol. 1: http://collection.eliterature.org/1/

Vol. 2: http://collection.eliterature.org/2/

Selections from The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing  Ed Falco, Ed. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/16Fall/index.html

David Clark, “88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the left hand).” http://www.88constellations.net/88.html

Lance Olsen with Tim Gutherie, “The Nature of the Creative Process” (online): https://vimeo.com/2529699.

Lance Olsen with Tim Gutherie, 10:01 (online): http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/olsen_guthrie__10_01.html

High Tech:

John Cayley, What We Will (online) <http://www.z360.com/what/>

Nam Le, “The Boat” animated web story: http://www.sbs.com.au/theboat/

William Gillespie, “Morpheus” : http://www.morpheus11.com/

 

Tech Overview: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, iMovie; Indesign (other: Scalar; PowerPoint; Prezi: https://prezi.com/; comic maker: http://plasq.com/apps/comiclife/macwin/)

 

Wk. 3: Tue. 1/30:  Medium & Tech Overview (Continue class 2) & Word & Image, Begin Graphic Narrative

Annie Dillard, “By the Numbers” (PDF)

Claudia Rankine, Citizen

Nicholas Casey (text) Josh Haner (photography and video) “Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity”. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/07/world/americas/bolivia-climate-change-lake-poopo.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro (film) on reserve: https://reserves.library.nd.edu/courses/201720_69/reserves

Art Spiegelman, Maus (begin)

 

Thur. 2/1:  Graphic Narratives

Ann Carson, Nox

Art Spiegelman, Maus (continue)

Joe Sacco, Palestine

Lynda Barry selections.

Paul Auster, City of Glass, graphic novel and text-only version. (Excerpt)

Franz Kafka, Metamorphose, graphic novel and text-only version. (Excerpt)

 

Wk. 4: Tue. 2/6: Graphic Narratives (Cont.)

 

Thur. 2/8: Graham Rawle, Women’s World

 

Wk. 5: Tue. 2/13: Graham Rawle, Women’s World

 

Thur. 2/15:  FINISH NOVELS & GRAPHIC NARRATIVES CATCH UP DAY [Graphic Stories DUE TODAY]

 

Wk. 6: Tue. 2/20:  Graphic Story Workshop

Writing from: _________ ____________  and ________________________

Writing from: _________ ____________  and ________________________

 

Thur. 2/22: Graphic Story Workshop

Writing from: _________ ____________  and ________________________

Writing from: _________ ____________  and ________________________

 

Wk. 7: Tue. 2/27: Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project: http://aleksandarhemon.com/lazarus/#

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “Dakota” (online) and “Nippon” (online) <http://www.yhchang.com/>

 

Thur. 3/1: Stephanie Strickland, with Paul Ryan / Cynthia Lawson, and Jaramillo, slippingglimpse” (online)

 

Wk. 8: Tue. 3/6: David Clark, 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the left hand).

http://www.88constellations.net/88.html

 

Thur. 3/8: NO CLASS: AWP

 

Wk. 9: Tue. 3/13 &  Thur. 3/15: NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

 

ROUND 1:

Wk. 10:  Tue. 3/20: Writing from: _________ ____________  and ________________________

 

Thur. 3/22:  Writing from: _________ ____________  and ________________________

 

Wk. 11: Tue. 3/27:  Writing from: _____________________  and ________________________

 

Thur. 3/29: Writing from: _____________________  and ________________________

 

FYI: 3/30-4/2 Easter Weekend

 

Wk. 12: Tue. 4/3: Salvador Placencia, People of Paper.

 

Thur. 4/5: Salvador Placencia, People of Paper (Cont.)

 

Wk. 13: Tue. 4/10:  Tal Halpern, Digital Nature: The Case Collection (online) "http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/14031/index.html

 

Thur. 4/12: Selections from The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing  Ed Falco, Ed. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/16Fall/index.html

 

ROUND 2:

Wk. 14: Tue. 4/17:  Writing from: _____________________  and ________________________

 

Thur. 4/19: Writing from: _____________________  and ________________________

 

Wk. 15: Tue. 4/24:  Writing from: _____________________  and ________________________

 

Thur. 4/26:  Writing from: _____________________  and ________________________

 

Wk. 16: Tue. 5/1:  Last Class: review & Book Workshop (unless class needed for make up).

 

FINAL: Class Online Magazine

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