Non-Linear Narrative
RTF 331Q, Unique 06845
RTF 393Q, Unique 07285
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9am-12pm
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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Week 1
Wednesday, January 21
General introduction
Week 2
Monday, January 26
Course overview
Wednesday, January 28
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 (to stamp with and to send mail with), ink, any other materials you can think up
Week 3
Monday, February 2
Introduction of Project 1
Read: Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, Chapter 8, “The Book as Visual Form”
Wednesday, February 4
Website design | Dreamweaver tutorial
12th class day, website accounts open
Week 4
Monday, February 9
Pop-up workshop | workshop by pop-up group
Read: Mark Hiner and Paul Jackson books on pop-up techniques
Bring: Any pop-up books and | or like forms
Wednesday, February 11
Bookbinding workshop | workshop by bookbinding group
Read: Reserve books on bookbinding
Bring: Any books with interesting binding and | or structure
Week 5
Monday, February 16
Work Session—no formal class
Wednesday, February 18
Project 1 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 6
Monday, February 23
Introduction of Project 2
Read: Tom Phillips, A Humument (entire) and Roland Barthes, S/Z
(pp. 3-22, read carefully)
Wednesday, February 25
Writing workshop
Read: About cut-ups (sites and reserve) and Johanna Drucker, The Century
of Artists’ Books, Chapter 9, “Books as Verbal Exploration”
Bring: Pad of newsprint paper (large), black pens of various thicknesses,
1 common and 1 uncommon newspaper, scissors, glue
Saturday, February 28
Field trip—Museum of Fine Arts, Houston—Word and Image Collection
Week 7
Monday, March 1
Word and image workshop
This workshop will be Photoshop intensive, be prepared…
Read: Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
Bring: 5 comic strips, paper, glue, tape, scissors, string, drawing materials
of various sorts
Wednesday, March 3
Screening: TBA
Week 8
Monday, March 8
Work Session—no formal class
Wednesday, March 10
Project 2 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 9
Monday, March 15
Wednesday, March 17
Spring Break
No classes
Week 10
Monday, March 22
Introduction of Project 3
Read: Jay David Bolter, Writing Space
Wednesday, March 24
Hypertext | Flash tutorial
Week 11
Monday, March 29
Interactive writing workshop
Read: Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, Chapter
10, “The Book as Sequence”
Wednesday, March 31
Work Session—no formal class
Week 12
Monday, April 5
Project 3 due | Open critique and discussion
Wednesday, April 7
Screening: TBA
Week 13
Monday, April 12
Introduction of Project 4
Read: Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, Chapter
4 “The Artist’s Book as a Democratic Multiple” and Chapter
5, “The Artist’s Book as a Rare and/or Auratic Object”
Due: Final project proposal
Wednesday, April 14
Field trip--Harry Ransom Center
Week 14
Monday, April 19
In-class work session
Read: Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, Chapter
12, “The Book as Conceptual Space (Performance and Exhibition)”
Screening: TBA
Week 15
Monday, April 26
In-class work session
Wednesday, April 28
Work session—no formal class
Week 16
Monday, May 3
Last formal class session—Mandatory attendance
Wednesday, May 5
Work session—no formal class
Saturday, May 8
Final Review 12-6pm
CMB Studio 4B17
Week 17
Monday, May 10
5pm websites due and CD-ROMs due at my office, UA9 2.112K