H70073 Digital fictions

Faculty of Music
Winter 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dagmar Husárová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Composition and Multimedia Creation Department – Dean’s Office – Faculty of Music – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Supplier department: Composition and Multimedia Creation Department – Dean’s Office – Faculty of Music – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Fiction, theory of fictional worlds.
    Narratology.
    Non/Multilinear writing, Oulipo.
    Hypertext - associative thinking, linking, structures.
    Cybertext, ergodic literature.
    Digital word, code, materiality.
    Performativity of digital sign, procedural model of communication.
    Intermediality, metamediality, multisensoric reading.
    Narrative as transmedial concept.
    Digital fiction and aspects of play, game.
Literature
  • Homo ludens: o původu kultury ve hře [Huizinga, 1971]. info
  • CRAMER, Florian. Words Made Flesh : Code, Culture, Imagination. Rotterdam : Piet Zwart Institute, 2005. 140 p. Cyberarts 2003: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003. p. 248. info
  • Genette, Gérard. Narrative discourse :an essay in method. Edited by Jonathan D. Culler, Translated by Jane E. Lewin. 1. ed. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1980. 285 s. info
  • BACK, Maribeth. The Reading Senses. In Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains. Ed. Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison, Terje Rasmussen. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003, p. 157-182. ISBN 0-262-12256-1. info
  • New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts and Theories. Edited by A. Morris, Thomas Swiss, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2006,. info
  • HANSEN, Mark, B. N. Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. NY: Routledge, 2006. 327 p. info
  • HAYLES, Katherine, N. Writing Machines. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. 224 p. info
  • RYAN, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 399 p. info
  • Bolter, Jay David - Grusin, Richard. Remediation :understanding new media. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. xi, 295 s. info
  • FUNKHOUSER,Christopher T . Prehistoric Digital Poetry : An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995. Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 2007. 408 p. IS. info
  • CAYLEY, John. Time Code Language : New Media Poetics and Programmed Signification. In New Media Poetics : Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Ed. Adalaide Morris, Thomas Swiss. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2006, p. 307-333. info
  • AARSETH, Espen J. Cybertext : Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore : The John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 203 p. info
  • Bolter, Jay David - Gromala, Diane. Windows and mirrors :interaction design, digital art, and the myth of transparency. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003. xi, 182 s. The new media reader. Edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin - Nick Montfort. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003. xv, 823 s. info
  • FULLER, Matthew (Ed.). Software Studies : A Lexicon. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2008. 334 p. info
  • Fořt, Bohumil. Úvod do sémantiky fikčních světů. 1. vyd. Brno : Host, 2005. 148 s. Teoretická knihovna. info
  • SUSINI-ANASTOPOULOSOVÁ, Françoise. Fragmentárne písanie: Definície a prínosy, Kalligram, Bratislava 2005. 313 s. info
  • GLAZIER, Loss Pequeño. Digital Poetics : The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002. 213 p. - Caillois, Roger. Hry a lidé:maska a závrať. Translated by Nina Vangeli. Nakladatelství Studia Ypsilon, Praha 1998. 215 s. info
  • Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Aktualita krásného :umění jako hra, symbol a slavnost. Translated by David Filip. Vyd. 1. Praha : Triáda, 2003. 86 s. info
  • Narrative Across Media : The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln; London : Nebraska Press, 2004. 422 p. info
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan. London; New York : Routledge. 2008, p. 252-256. info
  • DRUCKER, Johanna. The Visible Word : Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1994. 298 p. info
  • HAYLES, Katherine, N. Electronic Literature : New Horizons for the Literary. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2008. 240 p. info
Teaching methods (in Czech)
prednáška
Kurz v rámci meziuniverzitního projektu ESF "Umění a multimedia" zajišťuje FF MU.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Requirements during lecture - attendance, active participation and discussion on the assigned texts (available online, predominantly written in English). Assessment - either written paper (apr. 10 p.) on some of the topics introduced during lectures or presentation of ideas in some other creative, interactive, multimedia form (blogs, intermedial projects, etc.). The assessment will be based on student´s activity at lectures and their paper/blog/project.
Language of instruction
Slovenian
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Credit evaluation note: 1 z 1.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021.
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