IM102 Language and Digital

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Panák Husárová, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 10:00–13:15 B11
Prerequisites (in Czech)
IM001 Introduction to IM Studies I && IM015 Introduction to IM Studies II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The learning objective of the course is on one hand, that the students gain the knowledge of the theoretical background of linguistic and textual expression in new media and thus ways of understanding the role of language, text and literature in the contemporary society and on the other hand they will gain the insight into the artistic practice of the usage of diverse language forms in new media art. During the course, the students will become familiar with the experimental tendencies that address the relationship between orality and textuality, recursivity in literature, perception of text not solely as a semantic medium but also as visual medium, language plays, visual and kinetic poetry, tendencies that break the strict boundaries between art forms and demonstrate the necessity of inter/transmedial understanding. Although these tendencies have laid the initial ground for the perception of language in new media, one has to consider the specifics of linguistic expression and sign as such, in new media. The students will therefore be able to lead the discussions about the principles of code writing and the double nature and performativity of sign, they will be able to formulate the conceptual instruments necessary to grasp the problematics of presence of linguistic and textual expression in new media. The students will gain the knowledge of the questions that writing, reading, talking and listening in the new media evoke, will become aware of the new media art that is based on linguistic or textual expression (digital narratives, interactive narratives, e-poetry, etc.) or implements it beside other sign systems (intermedial digital art) and will know how to express their attitudes towards the meaning of these artpieces through their analysis and interpretation.
Syllabus
  • Language games. Linguistic sign.
  • Experimental poetry: visual, kinetic, concrete.
  • Digital writing, digital literature a their history.
  • Digital poetics.
  • Language expression in (non)digital media.
Literature
    required literature
  • CAYLEY, John. Performances Of Writing In The Age Of Digital Transliteration [online]. 1998-10-26 [cit. 2009-05-13]. Available at: . Contextual Media. Multimedia and Interpretation. Ed. Edward Barrett, Marie
  • A Companion to Digital Literary Studies [online]. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens. Oxford : Blackwell, 2008. Available at: .
  • CRAMER, Florian. Words Made Flesh : Code, Culture, Imagination. Rotterdam : Piet Zwart Institute, 2005. 140 p.
  • STREHOVEC, Janez. The word image/virtual body : on the techno-aesthetics of digital literary objects [online]. Sept.-Oct. 2002 [cit. 2009-06-03]. Available at: .
  • DRUCKER, Johanna. The Visible Word : Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1994. 298 p. ISBN 0-226-16501-9.
  • CRAMER, Florian. Combinatory Poetry and Literature in the Internet [online]. 2000-10-19 [cit. 2008-10-24]. Available at: .
  • BOLTER, Jay, David – GROMALA, Diane. Windows and Mirrors : Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Trans-parency. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2003. 182 p. ISBN 0-262-02545-0.
  • GLAZIER, Loss Pequeño. Digital Poetics : The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002. 213 p. ISBN 0-8173-1075-4.
  • HAYLES, Katherine, N. Electronic Literature : New Horizons for the Literary. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2008. 240 p. ISBN 0-268-03084-7.
  • MANOVICH, Lev. Avant-garde as Software [online]. December 2002 [cit. 2009-04-25]. Available at: .
    recommended literature
  • HANSEN, Mark, B. N. Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. NY : Routledge, 2006. 327 p. ISBN 0-415-97016-4.
  • MEMMOTT, Talan. Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading. In New Media Poetics : Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Edited by Adalaide Morris, Thomas Swiss. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2006, p. 293-306. ISBN 0-262-13463-2.
  • FUNKHOUSER,Christopher T . Prehistoric Digital Poetry : An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995. Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 2007. 408 p. ISBN ISBN 0-8173-5422-0.
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar, class discussion, reading, group projects
Assessment methods
1. presentation 2. group blog projekt
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015.
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