Non-Linear Narrative
RTF 331Q, Unique 07145
RTF 393Q, Unique 07585
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1pm-4pm
CMB Studio 4B and other locations (TBA)
Spring, 2004
Instructor: Dr. Samantha Krukowski
samantha@rasa.net
Office hours: Mondays 1-4pm
UA9 2.112K, 471-4222
TA: Tray Duncan
tduncan@mail.utexas.edu
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Week 1
Wednesday, January 19
General introduction
Presentation assignments and instructions
Week 2
Monday, January 24
Course overview
Read: Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artist’s Books, ch. 8-10, 12, pp. 197-286, 308-333 (handout)
Wednesday, January 26
Mail Art workshop
Prep: Investigate mail art (see sites) and bring at least 2 open calls for mail art
Bring: Paper, glue, tape, scissors, newspapers, magazines, pens, pencils, stamps, stickers…
Week 3
Monday, January 31
Pop Up Book workshop
Bring: Any pop-up book
Wednesday, February 2
Folding Architecture workshop
Read: Folding Architecture (entire)
Bring: Any book that treats the page as a 3D space
Week 4
Monday, February 7
Bookbinding workshop
Bring: Any book with interesting binding
Wednesday, February 9
Website design | tutorials and work session
Website accounts open
Bring: Diagram of the structure and contents of your website
Week 5
Monday, February 14
Work Session—no formal class
Wednesday, February 16
Project 1 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 6
Monday, February 21
On Project 2
Read: Tom Phillips, A Humument (entire) and Roland Barthes, S/Z
(pp. 3-22, read carefully)
Wednesday, February 23
Word and image workshop
Bring: Paper (various), some different drawing materials, x-acto knife
and blades, scissors, glue, tape, string
Week 7
Monday, February 28
Word and image workshop 2
Bring: Paper (various), glossy magazines, x-acto knife and blades, scissors,
glue, tape
Wednesday, March 2
Website work session
Bring: Whatever you need to work on your site
Week 8
Monday, March 7
Work Session—no formal class
Wednesday, March 9
Project 2 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 9
Monday, March 14
Wednesday, March 16
Spring Break
No classes
Week 10
Monday, March 21
On Project 3
Read: “Sound Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs’ Tape
Experiments” in Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde
(Kahn and Whitehead, eds.)
Wednesday, March 23
Recording and sound-editing workshop
Bring: The recording device you plan to use, related accessories (microphones,
cables, etc.)
Week 11
Monday, March 28
Cut ups workshop
Read: William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, The Third Mind (on reserve)
Bring: Pad of newsprint paper (large), black pens of various thicknesses,
1 common and 1 uncommon newspaper, x-acto knife and blades, scissors,
glue
Wednesday, March 30
Screening: Towers Open Fire and others
Week 12
Monday, April 4
Work session--no formal class
Wednesday, April 6
Project 3 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 13
Monday, April 11
Harry Ransom Center, Artist Books collection
Wednesday, April 13
Austin Museum of Art, Color/Pattern/Grid exhibition
Week 14
Monday, April 18
Screening: Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway)
Mapping space, place and narrative workshop
Bring: TBA
Week 15
Monday, April 25
Collaborative writing workshop
Bring: TBA
Wednesday, April 27
Work session—no formal class
Week 16
Monday, May 2
Last formal class session—Mandatory attendance
Wednesday, May 4
Work session—no formal class
Saturday, May 7
Final Review 10am-4pm
CMB Studio 4B
Week 17
Monday, May 11
5pm websites and CD-Rs and any other materials due at my office, UA9 2.112K or my RTF mailbox