CRWR 237 - New Media Writing

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
Can a poem change based on your weather data? What happens when a story moves nonlinearly through hyperlinks, or when the computer becomes your collaborator? This creative writing course explores new media writing-poems, stories, and hybrid works that use digital media to create innovative literary experiences. Together, we will study works that challenge our thinking on multimodality, interactivity, platforms, materiality, and authorship. In the spirit of purposeful play, students will also regularly create and workshop their own original pieces. Our scope may include interactive fiction, video games, computational poetry, audio and video poems, hybrid installations, immersive storytelling, and more. No coding experience is expected-just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.