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From: "N. Kistler" <ideas@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: final project
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Abram, Rich, St. Aubin de Teran
I prefer a book myself, but then I like to keep things.
~Nicole

On Mon, 17 May 1999, anne schwartzburg stevens wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Following is a brief description of what we are going to do next and the
> feedback I would like from all of you.
>  If you respond to this before Tuesday evening, I can work use 
> opinions/desires to draft the project description. Please respond to the
> email list so we can test this as a virtual discussion space.
> 
> The project will be a series of sequential drawings that are built  from a
> written narrative. 
> 
> Each of you will take a phrase or passage from the narrative we select and
> use it as the source for your drawings. We will have a mid-review of sorts
> where we will pin up the drawings in a sequence and look at how it is
> reading as a whole piece. We will decide as a group how to connect the
> images you make and the original text.
> 
> I am going to show you on Wednesday how to include text and letterforms in
> your drawings, and how you might to incorporate text and how we decide to
> break up the narrative into a sequence will be discussed in class.
> 
> 
> The issues are as follows:
> 1. Choosing a reading to work with.
> 2. Deciding upon the final form this sequence will take. 
> 
> FORM: There are two possibilities: 
> 
> Either 1. a series of color posters, output on the new plotter in the Viz
> Lab, or 
> 
> 2. a book of laser prints, either color or b&w. We would prepare this book
> in an edition of  15 and each of you would get a copy. 
> 
> Regardless of which of the print options you choose, I will also plan to
> mount this as a simple website in which you click through the images in
> sequence. Given our time constraints, I will ask your advice on formatting
> and structure, but will not ask you to prepare the pages yourselves.
> 
> READINGS:
> 
> Please email me two of the readings (identified by author & in order of
> preference) that you would like to use. Please forgive my short synopses. 
> 
> Week 1:
> Adrienne Rich: woman and bird
> Lucy Lippard: photography and place
> 
> Week 2:
> David Abram: Spell of the Sensuous spider and cave
> Jenny Rios: favorite place, swing
> 
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> Week 3:
> John Steinbeck: the harbour
> Little Altars Everywhere: Spring Creek, the house
> Karen Mabbutt: east of the mountains 
> 
> Week 4:
> Lisa St. Aubin de Teran: buying the ruin in Italy
> Gallagher: How places affect people
> 
> Week 5:
> Kerouac: piece from On the Road
> Charles Frazier: woman making breakfast in the tent
> Allan Lightman:  the future
> 
> 
> Week 6:
> Ezra Pound
> e.e. cummings
> Matthew Arnold
> Stephanie Mills: The Journey Home
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