NARRA - Open Narrative Structures in Theory and Practice 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
373NSON2 credit 3 4 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 33 to 48 hours of self-study English summer

Subject guarantor

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Name of lecturer(s)

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Contents

The class is a followup to the course offered in Bc. study NARRA 1 and approaches the development of student’s projects from another perspective.

This semester the goal is for students to create short works, either together or individually using video, sound, images and with a focus on text. Students learn theoretical and technical aspects of creating media works with multiple narrative viewpoints and potentially interactive features. Students are taught to understand rhizomatic perspectives - “multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation”. This semester’s focus on using basic AI tools creatively will involve a ‘detournment’ of the AI results. How can we make our own projects while being creatively surprised about the possibility that the new tools might offer? In the same way William Burroughs and Brion Gysin used the cutup method to catalyze their own works in the late 1950’s how might we ‘cut-in’ to the results we ‘prompt’ in the first place?

Learning outcomes

This semester we will be ‘end users’ of recently available AI tools and create a short series of collaborative works using OPENAI’s CHAT-GPT, or DALL-E2, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion and other software environments (Inkster or Scalar for example).

Prerequisites and other requirements

Familiarity with creating and editing video

Literature

A google doc site will be created with readings. A partial list of readings includes:

ROSENZVEIG, Eric. Conflations: playListNetWork, NARRA and open narrative structures. software development as art practice. Prague: NAMU, 2020. 224 pages. ISBN 978-80-7331-531-3.

CRAWFORD, Kate. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021. 336 s., ISBN 978-0300209570

IVERSON, Margaret, editor. Chance. London: Whitechapel Gallery and Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2010. 240 s., ISBN 978-0262513920

BURROUGHS, William, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, 1962. 232. s.ISBN 9780802132956.

LANDOW, George P. Hypermedia 3.0: critical theory and new media in an era of globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. 456 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0801882579.

DELEUZE, Gilles and GUATTARI, Felix. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. 652 pages. ISBN 978-0-8166-1402-8.

DELEUZE, Gilles and PARNET, Claire. Dialogues II. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 192 pages. ISBN 9780231141352.

TUFTE, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001. 200 pages. ISBN 978-1930824133.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Attendance 70%. Participation. This semester there will be no final projects, rather a short series of exercises will be created throughout the semester.

Note

History of interactive works at http://docubase.mit.edu/project/

Schedule for winter semester 2022/2023:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2022/2023:

06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
room 428
Room No. 428
(Lažanský palác)
ROSENZVEIG E.
15:40–17:15
(lecture parallel1)
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Thu 15:40–17:15 Eric ROSENZVEIG Room No. 428
Lažanský palác		 lecture parallel1

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