IM102 Language and Digital

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2012
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
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 10:50–14:05 N21
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 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35
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. They will know how to participate on the collaborative online blog. And students will even learn to create electronic literature - because the course is also workshop-oriented.
Syllabus
  • Language games. Linguistic sign.
  • Experimental poetry 1: visual, kinetic
  • Experimental poetry 2: sound-poetry, video-poetry
  • History of Electronic literature - generative poetry
  • Remix. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality.
  • Electronic literature and its poetics.
Literature
    required literature
  • MANOVICH, Lev. Avant-garde as Software [online]. December 2002 [cit. 2009-04-25]. Available at: .
  • CRAMER, Florian. Words Made Flesh : Code, Culture, Imagination. Rotterdam : Piet Zwart Institute, 2005. 140 p.
  • 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.
  • A Companion to Digital Literary Studies [online]. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens. Oxford : Blackwell, 2008. Available at: .
  • HAYLES, Katherine, N. Electronic Literature : New Horizons for the Literary. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2008. 240 p. ISBN 0-268-03084-7.
  • 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.
  • 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: .
  • GLAZIER, Loss Pequeño. Digital Poetics : The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002. 213 p. ISBN 0-8173-1075-4.
  • 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
  • CRAMER, Florian. Combinatory Poetry and Literature in the Internet [online]. 2000-10-19 [cit. 2008-10-24]. Available at: .
    recommended literature
  • 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.
  • HANSEN, Mark, B. N. Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. NY : Routledge, 2006. 327 p. ISBN 0-415-97016-4.
  • 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, participation on a collaborative online blog
Assessment methods
1. a pair presentation 2. creative project 3. active participation on a blog 4. building of a taxonomy 5. creative task after each seminar
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015.
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