Monday, October 31
- In class:
- Lecture and Discussion of generative electronic literature.
- Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort
- Taroko Gorge and its Remixes
- Loveletters by Christopher Strachey
- Memory Slam by Nick Montfort
- The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed
- Assignment:
- Read the NaNoGenMo works published in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 4 (ELC4)
- Explore NaNoGenMo (The works are published under "issues" for each year)
- Discuss one work from the ELC4 and one you found in the NaNoGenMo site.
- Post before class on Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 2
- In class:
- Discussion of NaNoGenMo works
- Sample generative tools:
- Markov Chain Generator
- N+7 Generator
- RiTa
- Automated word substitution (see Gizoogle and the Pornolizer)
- Oulipian constraints: The Deletionist
- Novel.ai
- Introduction to bots
- Eliza by Joseph Weizenbaum
- When Eliza Met Parry
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- Assignment:
- Read "Artistic and Literary Bots"
- Explore bots featured in the ELC3 and in my Twitter List of Artistic and Literary Bots
- Write an analysis of two Twitter bots (one from each resource), focusing on the author's goals, their strategies, its mechanisms, and range of possible outputs. Post before class on Monday.