Tuesday, November 5
- In class:
- Discussion of generative tools:
- markov chain generators
- automated word substitution (see Gizoogle and the Pornolizer)
- Oulipian constraints: The Deletionist
- When an AI Goes Full Jack Kerouac
- Introduction to bots:
- Eliza by Joseph Weizenbaum
- When Eliza Met Parry
- Bots featured in the ELC3
- Discussion of generative tools:
- Assignment:
- Read "Artistic and Literary Bots"
- Read "Hot Bots: An Interview with Leonardo Flores"
- Explore Genre: Bot in I ♥︎ E-Poetry and write an analysis of one Twitter bot, focusing on the author's goals, their strategies, its mechanisms, and range of possible outputs. Post in our GroupMe before class on Thursday.
Thursday, November 7
- In class:
- Discussion of bots:
- Assignment:
- Read "Digital Poetry" in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
- Read the I ♥︎ E-Poetry entries and the following works. You will need Firefox and the Flash player to read most of these e-poems.
- Seattle Drift by Jim Andrews
- Birds Singing other Birds’ Songs by Maria Mencia
- Cruising by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar
- Faith by Robert Kendall
- “Ah” by K. Michel and Dirk Vis
- Sooth by David Jhave Johnston
- Write a 1-paragragh response to two of the assigned poems and post in our GroupMe before class on Tuesday.