Video Installation
course calendar
Week 1

Wednesday, January 18

Introduction | Handouts | Presentation and Committee Assignments

Week 2

Monday, January 23

Course Overview (LightSwitch redux)

Wednesday, January 25

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 30

Project 1 Due | Presentations Day 1

Wednesday, February 1

Project 1 Due | Presentations Day 2

Week 4

Monday, February 6

Modelmaking workshop
Bring: chipboard, cardboard, paper, xacto knife and blades, metal ruler, cutting mat, scissors, glue, hot glue gun

Wednesday, February 8

Project 2 Due | Open Critique and Discussion

Week 5

Monday, February 13

On Project 3
Read: Selections from Allan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (handout, pp. 15-26, 59-65, 163-198)

Wednesday, February 15

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 (send both to listserv prior to class); any materials you need.

Week 6

Monday, February 20

Work Session—No class

Wednesday, February 22

Project 3 due | Open critique and discussion
Bring: Evidence of your happening

Week 7

Monday, February 27

Articulated space workshop
Read: Folding Architecture (entire)
Bring: Many sheets of Ivory Carton (equivalent), cutting mat, x-acto knife and blades, metal ruler

Wednesday, March 1

Work Session—No Class

Week 8

Monday, March 6

Project 4 Due | Open critique and discussion

Wednesday, March 8

CMA plaza and surrounds site study 1 - general
Bring: paper and materials for drawing, note taking; media for observing and listening

Week 9

March 13-18

Spring Break

Week 10

Monday, March 20

Site
Read: Katharine Harmon, Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination

Wednesday, March 22

CMA plaza and surrounds site study 2 – specific
Bring: paper and materials for drawing, note taking; media for observing and listening

Week 11

Monday, March 27

Brainstorming April 29 | Initial ideas
Bring: sketches and scores, precedents

Monday, March 29

Committee Meetings

Week 12

Monday, April 3

Brainstorming April 29 | First proposals (bring at least 3)
Bring: sketches and diagrams and models and maps (include sites as much as possible)

Wednesday, April 5

Site assignments
Committee Presentations

Week 13

Monday, April 10

Work session—no formal class

Wednesday, April 12

Brainstorming April 29 | Decisions
Bring: sketches and diagrams and models and maps and descriptions (all in situ); list of equipment requirements

Week 14

Monday, April 17

In-class work session and discussion

Wednesday, April 19

Work session—no formal class

Week 15

Monday, April 24

In-class work session and discussion

Wednesday, April 26

Work session—no formal class

Saturday, April 29

Projection Event | Dark-Midnight (set up noon-dark)

Week 16

Monday, May 1

Wrap—Mandatory Attendance

Wednesday, May 3

Work Day—No Class

Week 17

Monday, May 8, Noon

Websites and documentation of final installation due
Put website CDs and installation DVDs/mini-DVs in Samantha’s RTF mailbox, CMA 6.118