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Note: Office
hours on Tuedsay May 18 are cancelled due to talk at WWW conference. I
am available early Tuesday until noon if you would like to schedule an
appointment!
Links
Run
Lola Run essay, Charles Taylor, 1999
Info on
Roshomon
Surrealist
Game Activities
Shakespeare's
Use of Puns
more on Wittgenstein and Language Games at Wikipedia
Chinese Lantern
Riddles
Language Games at Fun With Words
Ferdinand
de Saussure Overview
Ferdinand
de Saussure and Structuralism
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Information
Jabberwocky,
Lewis Carroll http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/gsr/jabber.htm
Lewis
Carroll's games, More Lewis
Carroll games
Cryptography
and code games
Steve Russel's
first computer game, SPACEWAR!, from 1962 is emulated
here.
Readings:
Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Aragon, et. al. "The Surrealist Manifesto." 1925
Bateson, Gregory, and Batson, Mary Catherine. Steps to an Ecology of Mind:
Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Beuys, Joseph. "Fluxus Manifesto." 1970
Blake, Kathleen. Chapter 2, "Games." Play, Games, and Sport:
The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. Ithaca and London: Cornell University
Press, 1974.
Breton, Andre."The Surrealist Manifesto." 1929.
Brotchie, Alastair and Gooding, Mel. Surrealist Games. Boston: Shambhala,
2001.
Calvino, Italo. If On a Winter's Night, a Traveller. . .Trans. William
Weaver. NY: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1981.
Costa, Eduardo, Escari, Raul, and Jacoby, Roberto. "A Media Art (Manifesto)."
1966. Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Alberro, Alexander, and
Stimson, Blake. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
Csikszentihalyi, Mihaly. "Some Paradoxes in the Definition of Play."
Play as Context. Ed. Alyce Taylor Cheska. West Point, NY: Leisure Press,
1979.
Edwards, Brian. Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction. NY: Garland Publising,
1998.
Flanagan, Mary. "Next Level: Women's Digital Activism through Gaming."
Digital Media Revisited. Edited by Andrew Morrison, Gunnar Liestøl
& Terje Rasmussen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Friedman, Ken. The Fluxus Performance Workbook. 1960 – present.
http://www.nutscape.com/fluxus/homepage/fpw_indx.html
Godfrey, Tony. Conceptual Art (Art and Ideas). London: Phaidon Press,
1998.
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture.
Beacon Press, 1971
Lewitt, Sol. "Sentences on Conceptual Art." Conceptual Art:
A Critical Anthology. Ed. Alberro, Alexander, and Stimson, Blake. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2000.
Maciunas, George "Fluxus Manifesto." 1963
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. "The Futurist Manifesto." 1909
Murray, Janet. Chapter 5, "Agency." Hamlet on the Holodeck.
NY: Free Press, 1997.
Pearce, Celia. "Girl Games: The New Feminine Mystique." The
Interactive Book. NY: Macmillan, 1997.
Poole, Steven. Excerpt. Trigger Happy. London: 4th Estate, 2000.
Sudnow, David. Pilgrim in the Microworld. New York: Warner Books, 1984.
Shawver, Lois. “On Wittgenstein's Concept of a
Language Game.” http://www.california.com/~rathbone/word.htm
Zimmerman, Eric and Salen, Katie. Rules of Play : Game Design Fundamentals.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Video
• Un Chien Andalou (1928) Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel.
• Cage / Cunningham (1991) Elliot Caplan,Kultur Video 1995
• Game Shows (1994)
• John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990) Kultur
Video 1997, 56 minutes
• Sometimes it Works, Sometimes it Doesn’t (1983) Cunningham
Dance Foundation. 1983, 63 minutes.
• THE MISFITS : 30 Years of Fluxus (2001) Lars Movin, 83 minutes
• Rashomon (1951) Akira Kurosawa
• Navajo Code Talkers: The Epic Story (1994) Allan Silliphant
• Breaking the Code (1997) Herbert Wise
• Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie’s Word Play (1969) Stan Lathan, Bob
Schwarz
• Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Broadway Theatre Archive)
(1983) Kirk Browning
• Run Lola Run (1999) Tom Tywker
Resources
Artpool's Fluxus Bibliography http://www.artpool.hu/Fluxusbibliography/default.html
Fluxus Home Page http://www.nutscape.com/fluxus/homepage/
More FluxResource http://www.ubu.com/aspen/
Email Puzzles http://www.elasticmind.com/
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