Video Installation
RTF 331Q, Unique 07150
RTF 393Q, Unique 07585
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9am-12pm
CMB Studio 4B and other locations (TBA)
Spring, 2005
Instructor: Dr. Samantha Krukowski
samantha@rasa.net
Office hours: Mondays 4-6pm
UA9 2.112K, 471-4222
TA: Jeanne Stern
Jeanne_stern@mail.utexas.edu
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Week 1
Wednesday, January 19
General introduction
Presentation assignments
Week 2
Monday, January 24
Course overview
Read: Dan Graham, “Video in Relation to Architecture” in Hall and Fifer, Illuminating Video, pp. 168-188 (handout)
Wednesday, January 26
Image workshop
Bring: Glossy magazines of a certain type, x-acto knife and blades, cutting mat, metal ruler, scissors, glue, a white paper pad no smaller than 18 x 24”, black pens (thick and thin).
Week 3
Monday, January 31
Project 1 Due | Presentations Day 1
Wednesday, February 2
Project 2 Due | Presentations Day 2
Week 4
Monday, February 7
Artist Presentation: William Lundberg
Read: handouts
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
Project 2 Due | Open critique and discussion
Wednesday, February 16
On Project 3
Read: Selections from Allan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art
and Life, pp. 15-26, 59-65, 163-198 (handout)
Week 6
Monday, February 21
Happening workshop
Bring: Copies for the class of a score for a happening that interests
you AND for a score of a happening in which you will involve the class;
any materials you need.
Wednesday, February 23
Screening--TBA
Week 7
Monday, February 28
Work Session—no official class
Wednesday, March 2
Project 3 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 8
Monday, March 7
Modelmaking workshop
Bring: chipboard, cardboard, paper, xacto knife and blades, metal ruler,
cutting mat, scissors, glue, hot glue gun
Wednesday, March 9
Articulated space workshop
Read: Folding Architecture (entire)
Bring: Many sheets of Ivory Carton (equivalent), cutting mat, x-acto knife
and blades, metal ruler
Week 9
Monday, March 14
Wednesday, March 16
Spring Break
No classes
Week 10
Monday, March 21
CMA plaza and surrounds site study
Bring: paper and materials for drawing, note taking, observing
Wednesday, March 23
Project 4 due | Open critique and discussion
Week 11
Monday, March 28
Brainstorming May 7 | Initial ideas
Bring: sketches and scores
Read: John Coleman, “Landscapes of the Mind: Psychic Space and Narrative
Specificity”, in Space SITE Intervention (Suderburg), pp.
158-170 (handout)
Wednesday, March 30
CMA plaza and surrounds committee presentations
Week 12
Monday, April 4
Work Session—no formal class
Wednesday, April 6
Brainstorming May 7 | First proposals
Bring: sketches and models and maps
Read: “Ten Feet and Three Quarters of an Inch of Theatre”
in Nick Kaye, Site-Specific Art, pp.125-137
Week 13
Monday, April 11
Work session—no formal class
Wednesday, April 13
Brainstorming May 7 | Decisions
Bring: sketches and models and maps and descriptions and diagrams; requirements
Week 14
Monday, April 18
In-class work session and discussion
Work session—no formal class
Week 15
Monday, April 25
In-class work session and discussion
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
Video Installations—CMA plaza
Dark-10pm
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