Introduction: Beyond Screen Essentialism
September 4
Read: Kirschenbaum (through page 158), Montfort
September 11
Read: Kirschenbaum, Burgess (Dropbox)
Software
September 18
Read: Wardrip Fruin (through page 168), Bogost (Dropbox)
September 25
Lab Day
October 2
Read: Wardrip-Fruin, Rieder "Snowballs"
Book Review: Lauren
October 9
Software Studies Presentations
Read: Chun, Losh (Dropbox)
Hardware
October 16
Read: Jones and Thiruvathukal, Montfort and Bogost (Dropbox)
Book Review: Jenna
October 19
Midterm Learning Record due at noon
October 23
Lab Day
Book Review: Jim
October 30
Read: Banks, Prologue and Introduction, (Dropbox), Rieder "Gui to Nui," Selfe and Selfe (Dropbox)
Book Review: Rick
November 6
Open Lab
Book Review: Kathleen
Algorithm
November 13
Platform Studies Presentations
Book Review: Neil
November 20
Proposals for Final Project Due
Read: Galloway and Thacker
Book Review: Deidre and Anthony
November 27
Read: Brooke, Manovich (Dropbox)
Book Review: Maggie
December 4
Read: Ramsey, Brock "One Hundred Thousand Billion Processes: Oulipian Computation and the Composition of Digital Cybertexts"
Lab Day (Eric Alexander visits)
Book Review: Andrew
December 11
Final Presentations
December 17
Final Learning Record due at 9:00pm
