Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Class April 13

Melissa gave her presentation (thank you, Melissa) on Girls Day Out, and we did some brainstorming on the final projects. The emphasis on this last project will be to create a literary work - a piece that resonates with the features we identified as literary and associated with new media.

Some features of literature in digital works might be:
- connections between theme and form that are unique to digital media (for example the hidden texts in Girls Day out and The Jew's Daughter; the organization + structure of interaction in 12 Blue; the illusion of choice in "All Roads")

- the use of motion, sound, visual representations, and textual structures such that these elements are interpretive features of the text's meaning (as in Faith, Storyland, and Nio)

- multiple interpretive possibilities arising from your choices for representation, metaphor, and interaction = all texts! (a general feature of literature)

- references to and re-conceptualization of other works of art or real-world events (as in Hypertext, The Jew's Daughter, Little Red Riding Hood, Deviant, Girls Day Out, etc.

- concept or image centered explorations

Important notes:
If you have not already sent Sam images for the pieces you will present at the final show - send them to her ASAP.

I collected Project 2 in class. Those of you who have not yet turned in your work - send it to me/provide me with a copy for a grade.

For Wednesday:
Anna and Yvonne will give their presentations and you will spend the rest of the class working on yoru final projects.

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