Week 13: Meaningful Interactivity

Tuesday, November 12

• In class
  • Discussion of assigned 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
    • "Thoughts Go" by David Knoebel
• Assignment
  • Read the I ♥︎ E-Poetry entries and the following works. You will need Firefox and the Flash player to read some of these e-poems.
    • "Fitting the Pattern" and/or "Rememori" by Christine Wilks
    • "Game, Game, Game, and Again Game" and/or "The Required Field" by Jason Nelson
    • "The Lord's Prayer" and/or "Protect the Poet" by Alan Bigelow
    • "The Dead Tower" and/or "Aphiddd" by Andy Campbell
  • Write a 1-paragraph analysis of the impact of interactivity and interface on your experience 0f two of the assigned poems. How are these meaningful interactions?

Thursday, November 14

• In class
  • Discussion of assigned e-poems:
  • • "Fitting the Pattern" and/or "Rememori" by Christine Wilks
    • "Game, Game, Game, and Again Game" and/or "The Required Field" by Jason Nelson
    • "The Lord's Prayer" and/or "Protect the Poet" by Alan Bigelow
    • "The Dead Tower" and/or "Aphiddd" by Andy Campbell
• Assignment
  • Read the following works, and/or their documentation, if you can't experience them in an iOS device:
    • "Abra" by Kate Durbin, Amaranth Borsuk, and Ian Hatcher
    • "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", "Konsonant", "Unicode Infinite", and "Tiny Poems" by Jörg Piringer (explore his page and download from the App Store)
    • "The PoEMM Cycle" by Jason Edward Lewis and Bruno Nadeau
  • Write a 1-paragraph analysis of the impact of touchscreen interfaces on your experience 0f two of the assigned poems. How are these meaningful interactions?