The (Virtual) Poet's Walk

Catalog description

Students in this LC will read medieval and Renaissances poetry and create virtual experiences with contemporary media which enact these works within the landscape of New York City. Students will explore and use geographic and mobile based media to form a reinvented landscape suffused with classic poetry but mixed with contemporary sites. Inspired by the Poet’s Walk in Central Park, students will create an audio-visual experience embodying their poets in Central Park using the contemporary potential of mobile device media. The course makes connections between the poets and their poetry, from the twelfth-century troubadour poets to William Shakespeare, and the history and contexts of the medieval and early modern period.