Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004

Net Art Session 12: Monday, April 12, 2004

Topic

Narrative and Hypertext

Class Plan

+ Presentations
+ Discuss readings
+ Discuss Manuel Delanda Lecture
+ Critique student projects

Relevant Art Projects

+ Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES: http://www.yhchang.com

+ My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, by Olia Lialina:
Original version: http://www.teleportacia.org/war/war.html
Remixes: http://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru

+ World of Awe, by Yael Kanarek: www.worldofawe.net

+ Grammatron, by Mark Amerika: http://www.grammatron.com

+ The Fall of the Site of Marsha, by Rob Wittig, Patric King, with Rick Valicenti: http://www.tank20.com/MARSHA/

Required Readings

+ Mark Amerika: “What In the World Wide Web is Happening to Writing?” - Also available as file.

+ Nick Montfort: “Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction - Also available as file.

+ George P. Landow: Hypertext as Collage-Writing - In The Digital Dialectic, edited by Peter Lunenfeld,  
pp. 151 – 170. Available in course packet

+ Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, by Nick Montfort
Available in course packet

The Pleasure of the Text Adventure (pp. 1 - 15)

Recommended Readings

+ Randall Packer: "Net Art as Theater of the Senses: A HyperTour of Jodi and Grammatron" - Also available as file.

+ “What Counts as Net Art? Excerpts from the 2001 Webby Award Arts Panel Discussion” - Also available as file.
"An interesting email discussion developed among the judges for the 2001 Webby Award http://www.webbyawards.com in the Arts category.  We thought we'd make it available, in condensed form, both because we hoped people might find it interesting and also out of a desire to make these processes more transparent. The discussion excerpted below followed a conference call and an initial vote to arrive at a short list. The panelists were Natalie Bookchin, Sara Diamond, Jon Ippolito, Christiane Paul, Julia Scher and Mark Tribe."

+ Electronic Book Review: Image + Narrative -

The image+narrative double issue of the Electronic Book Review. See also:
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr6/
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr7/

+ Mark Amerika: "Tryptich: Hypertext, SurFiction, Storyworlds (Part One)" - Also available as file.
See also  Mark Amerika: "Tryptich: Hypertext, SurFiction, Storyworlds (Part Two)" http://www.heise.de/tp/english/kolumnen/ame/3345/1.html

+ Mark Amerika: "Designwriting: A Post-Literary Reading Experience" - Also available as file.

+ Thom Swiss: ""Distance, Homelessness, Anonymity, and Insignificance": an Interview with YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES" - Also available as file.

+ Molly Hankwitz: "Interview with Young-hae Chang: Web Artist " - Also available as file.

+ t.whid: "Interview with Yael Kanarek" - Also available as file.

+ Alex Galloway Interviews Mark Amerika - Also available as file.

+ Scott Rosenberg: Clicking For Godot - Also available as file.

+ Chris Carney: “I Want My  Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace” - Also available as file.

Files

+ Mark Amerika: "Designwriting: A Post-Literary Reading Experience"
+ Nick Montfort: “Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction
+ t.whid: "Interview with Yael Kanarek"
+ Thom Swiss: ""Distance, Homelessness, Anonymity, and Insignificance": an Interview with YOUNG-HAE C
+ “What Counts as Net Art? Excerpts from the 2001 Webby Award Arts Panel Discussion”
+ Alex Galloway Interviews Mark Amerika
+ Chris Carney: “I Want My  Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace”
+ Mark Amerika: "Tryptich: Hypertext, SurFiction, Storyworlds (Part One)"
+ Mark Amerika: "Tryptich: Hypertext, SurFiction, Storyworlds (Part Two)"
+ Mark Amerika: "What In the World Wide Web is Happening to Writing?" From Rhizome.org
+ Molly Hankwitz: "Interview with Young-hae Chang: Web Artist"
+ Randall Packer: "Net Art as Theater of the Senses: A HyperTour of Jodi and Grammatron"
+ Scott Rosenberg: Clicking For Godot
+ Young-Hae Chang Interviewed by Molly Hankwitz

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