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
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