Cinema
and the
Architecture of the Screen
Dr. Samantha Krukowski
Cinema and the Architecture of the Screen
RTF 331Q, Unique 06842
RTF 393Q, Unique 07280
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2pm-5pm
CMB Studio 4B and other locations (TBA)
Spring, 2004
Instructor: Dr. Samantha Krukowski
samantha@rasa.net
Office hours: Tuesdays, 3-5 pm (sign up)
UA9 2.112K, 471-4222
TA: Scott Nyerges
hutchense@yahoo.com
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Wednesday, January 21
General introduction
Week 2
Monday, January 26
Course overview
Wednesday, January 28
Introduction of Project 1
Bring: 2 pairs of reconfigured eyeglasses
Read: John Berger, “Opening a Gate”, pp. 1-8, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible”, pp. 9-24, “A Cloth over the Mirror”, pp. 113-120, “Will it be a Likeness?,” pp. 243-260 in The Shape of a Pocket | Jean-Louis Baudry “The Apparatus”, pp. 104-26 in Camera Obscura 1 (1976) | Jean-Louis Baudry “Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus” in B. Nichols, Movies and Methods v. 2, pp. 531-42 (in Reader)
Week 3
Monday, February 2
Seeing / representing workshop
Bring: Reconfigured eyeglasses (new and/or the same, redesigned for the better), newsprint, drawing paper, drawing media, scissors, glue
Wednesday,
February 4
Website design | Dreamweaver tutorial | 12th class day, website accounts
open
Week 4
Monday, February 9
Website development workshop
Bring: Diagram of the structure and contents of your website
Wednesday, February 11
Project 1 due
Choose: Vision machine to research (from list provided)
Week 5
Monday, February 16
Read: Jonathan Crary “The Camera Obscura and its Subject”, pp. 25-66, in Techniques of the Observer (in Reader) **Look through project 2 reserve books carefully**
Wednesday, February 18
Vision machine presentations
Prep: Research your vision machine and prepare a 5 minute presentation about it
Bring: Sketch and detail models of your machine-in-the-making
Week 6
Monday, February 23
Modeling workshop
Bring: Chip board, magazines with interesting images, hot glue gun and hot glue sticks, found objects and materials
Wednesday, February 25
Screening: TBA
Week 7
Monday, March 1
Project 2 due | Open critique and discussion
Wednesday, March 3
Introduction of Project 3
Read: “Cinetrain”, thesis project by Laurie Hawkinson, pp. 228-232 in Education of an Architect | Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, part 6 “Intermedia”, pp. 345-398 | Guy Debord, “Unity and Division within Appearance”, 54-72 and “The Organization of Territory”, 165-179, Society of the Spectacle (in Reader)
Week 8
Monday, March 8
FormZ tutorial #1 (introduction, basic modeling tools)
Wednesday, March 10
Project 3 in process discussion
Bring: Preparatory rough physical models of screen designs 1-3 (more than 1 model for each screen type—brainstorm through modeling), material samples, resource boards with images of work that is guiding you
Week 9
Monday, March 15
Wednesday, March 17
Spring Break
No classes
Week 10
Monday, March 22
Form Z tutorial #2 (more complex modeling techniques, animation)
Wednesday, March 24
Project 3 in process discussion and work session
Bring: preparatory physical and virtual models of screen designs 1-3,
material choices should be in play, construction choices should be visible.
Models should be to scale.
Week 11
Monday, March 29
Screening: TBA
Wednesday, March 31
Work session—no formal class
5pm tour of Zebra
Imaging
Week 12
Monday, April 5
Project 3 due | Open critique and discussion
Wednesday, April 7
Introduction of Project 4
Read: F.T. Marinetti, “The Futurist Cinema”, pp. 10-15, Laszlo
Moholy-Nagy, “Theater, Circus, Variety”, pp. 16-26, Morton
Heilig, “The Cinema of the Future”, pp. 219-231, Allan Kaprow,
“Untitled Guidelines for Happenings”, pp. 279-286 all in Randall
Packer’s Multimedia (in Reader). **Peruse reserve books listed specifically
for project 4 at PCL**
Week 13
Monday, April 12
Visiting artists | holographers: Sally
Weber and Mark Holzbach (Zebra
Imaging)
Wednesday, April 14
Project 4 proposal due
Prep: prepare a 5 minute presentation about your project
Bring: preliminary models, sketches, images, ideas
Week 14
Monday, April 19
Image workshop
Bring: Drawing paper and media, stacks of images that interest you, especially
those that relate to issues of form, material, division, sequence, overlay,
scale, position
Wednesday, April 21
Form workshop
Bring: Basswood, Xacto knife and blades, glue
Week 15
Monday, April 26
Screening: TBA
Wednesday, April 28
Project 4 in-class work session
Week 16
Monday, May 3
Last formal class session—Mandatory attendance
Wednesday, May 5
Work session—no formal class
Sunday, May 9
Final Review 12-6pm
CMB Studio 4B
Week 17
Monday, May 10
5pm websites due and CD-ROMs and mini-DV tapes due at my office, UA9 2.112K