Final Project

Final Project: Writing Electronic Literature
Hypertext, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, codework, generative art, and flash poems => any combination of your imagination.

Purpose: to compose a piece of orignial, non-trivial electronic literature; to explore new media composing processes and practices; to make something exciting and wonderful that others will find the same.

Description of assignment: create a work of digital literature where image, sound, movement, spatial relations and other visual, audio cues are significant components of the work . For this assignment you may use any software that you feel will work with your concept; you may pose interactions between physical and digital spaces as in locative works and installations, and/or you may use generative or network components (elements we have not covered extensively in class). Your work should have a literary focus/concept that is realized at least in part through the use of new media.

As in previous assignments, the complete work will include:
- a short introductory statement or “abstract” to characterize what the text “does”
- instructions or suggestions for readers to have a successful experience
- a readable/playable digital text linked to or embedded in your blog (in the case of performance or locative works, include sufficient directions for the physical components so as to allow play/reading of your work in the appropriate setting)
- a folder for visual & sound files, and lexia associated with the text
- a schematic, “map” or timeline to describe the design of your text
Criteria for grade: The complete work will include:
- a comprehensive design that is integral to the text’s meaning/conceptual focus
- multimedia elements that engage sight, sound, movement, configuration, and user interactions as active features in the texts’ reading
- a thematic, symbolic or conceptul focus that allows for a “literary” reading;
- elements that are creative, well composed, and appropriate to the text’s theme and to the media in which it is composed

The abstract & suggestions for reading will be patterned on the introductory material in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1.