Digital Writing Workshop

Recommended Prerequisites

Portuguese and English.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies are based on seminar work and tutorial supervision. Theoretical-practical classes of description and analysis of diverse genres of digital writing. Practical classes dedicated to specific platforms, tools and resources (eg, TAPoR 3, Twine, Inform, Processing, and Poemário).

Learning Outcomes

1. To understand and analyse practices and genres of contemporary digital writing;

2. To know and use digital writing platforms, tools and applications, including basic notions of programming;

3. To produce digital works in different genres, demonstrating ability to integrate creative writing skills with the creative exploration of the medial and expressive potential of the digital medium.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Genres of digital writing:

1.1. Combinatory and generative poetics

1.2. Hypertext Fiction    

1.3. Interactive fiction and playable forms

1.4. Kinetic and interactive poetry

1.5. Network writing

1.6. Expanded writing: locative narrative, augmented reality, virtual reality, interactive installations, expanded cinema

2. Medial and expressive properties in digital genres

3. Digital writing platforms, tools and applications.

Head Lecturer(s)

Manuel José de Freitas Portela

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in seminar discussions : 25.0%
Project: 75.0%

Bibliography

Boluk, S. et al. eds 2016 Electronic Literature Collection vol 3. MIT. http://collection.eliterature.org/3/

Carpenter, J.R. 2017 The Gathering Cloud. Uniform books

Clark, M. D., et al. eds. 2015 Creative Writing in the Digital Age. Bloomsbury

Engberg, M. et al. eds. 2013 ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature. ELMCIP https://anthology.elmcip.net

Goldsmith, K. 2011 Uncreative Writing. Columbia Univ Press

Miller, C. H. 2013 “New Media Writing”, Harper, G.ed A Companion to Creative Writing. Chichester:Wiley-Blackwell 115-128

Portela, M. 2017 “Writing under Constraint of the Regime of Computation.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. Ed J. Tabbi. Bloomsbury 179-198

Portela, M. 2014 “Flash Script Poex: Digital Recoding of the Experimental Poem.” PO.EX:Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia. Eds R. Torres & S. Baldwin. West Virginia Univ Press 229-245.

Rettberg, S. 2018 Electronic Literature. Polity Press.