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1

Introduction

Jorge Furtado: L’île aux fleurs

2

Hypertext and Multiple Perspectives

Vannevar Bush: "As We May Think"

Theodor Nelson: Excerpts from Literary Machines

Visual Narrative Project

3

Hypertext and Its Literary Origins

Jorge Luis Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel"

4

Authorship/Readership

Wolfgang Iser: "The Reading Process"

Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author"

Robert Goldberg: "Talmud"

Telling Stories with Photos (Guest Speaker)

5

Experimental Literature

Raymond Queneau: Cent Mille Milliard de poems

Texts by the OULIPO Group (Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau)

Julio Cortazar: Ryuela

Paul Fournel: Suburbia

David Small: The Talmud Project and Illuminated Manuscript

6

Encyclopedic Narratives

Dante: Divine Comedy (Purgatory)

James Joyce: Finnegans Wake

Arno Schmidt: Zettels Traum

Peter Greenaway: Dante’s Inferno

7

Visual Narratives

Class Presentations

8

Audio Narratives: Creating Spaces with Audio

Walter Ruttmann: Weekend (1929) and Remixes (1998)

Visual Narratives: Class Presentations (cont.)

9

Narrative Spaces in Film

Walter Ruttman, Berlin - Symphony of the City

Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera

10

The City as Narrative Space

Paul Wühr: Soundseeing Munich (1987)

Bill Fontana: Sound-Bridge Cologne-Kyoto (1993)

Audio Project

11

Narratives and Databases

Lev Manovich: Database
12

The End or the Future of Narratives

Janet Murray/Sven Birkerts: Authors @ MIT (Video)

Audio Project: Presentations

13Audio Project: Presentations
14

Hypertext Fiction, Net Literature

Michael Joyce: Afternoon

Stuart Moulthrop: Victory Garden

Shelley Jackson : Patchwork Girl

15

Interactive Narratives and Virtual Spaces (Guest Speaker)

Janet Murray: Properties of Digital Media

16

Interactive Narrative Projects at Media Lab’s Interactive Cinema Group (Guest Speaker)

Joseph Weizenbaum: ELIZA

17Multi-linear Narratives: Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors, Groundhog Day
18

Multi-perspective Narratives in Film: Memento, Time Code, Groundhog Day

Narratives in Games

19Multi-perspective Narratives in Film: Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors
20

Interactive Narratives

Gilberte Furstenberg: A la rencontre de Philippe

Interactive Movie: Tender Loving Care

21

Dialogical Narratives

Douglas Morgenstern: No recuerdo and ELIZA

Analysis of Games and Their Narrative Structures

22

Emergent Narratives

Ellen Crocker/Kurt Fendt: Berliner sehen

Analysis of Games and Their Narrative Structures

23Game Presentations
24Game Presentations
25Final Project Presentations
26Final Project Presentations

 








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