From Zero to Hero:
Zines
and the Rise
of the Radical Voice
in Contemporary Culture
CCA Spring 2007
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS (subject to change; check back for updates)
Week 1 (1/17)
Week 2 (1/31)
- discuss appropriation & detournement
- bring your ad interventions
Week 3 (2/7)
- Berin Golonu, curator of YCBA's The Zine UnBound show, visits.
- appreciations of consumer culture
- bring your one-page postcard zine
Week 4 (2/14)
- V. Vale, co-founder of Re/Search, visits.
- discuss typography & fonts (presentation: Sara, Lauren, Anne)
Week 5 (2/14)
- discuss MANIFESTOS!
- all about covers (presentation: Nensi, Kate P.)
- ZineTeam workshop
- bring your broadside manifesto
Week 6 (2/21)
- discuss presence/absence in space/on the page
- bring your ZineTeam zines
Week 7 (2/28)
- visit Prelinger library.
- discuss coherence & page layouts (presentation: Luke)
Week 8 (3/7)
- Chris Duncan, editor of Hot & Cold, visits.
- discuss coherence & page layouts (presentation: Christina)
- discuss printing methods, inks, paper (presentation: Courtenay, Travis)
- workshop your zine pages (Kate V, Courtenay, Max, Erin, Travis, Luke)
Week 9 (3/14)
- discuss binding techniques (presentation: Sepi, Erin)
- workshop your zine pages (Sara, Anne, Kate P, Nensi, Sepi, Lauren, Christina)
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Week 10 (3/28)
Week 11 (4/4)
- Kevin Killian, editor of Mirage #4/Period(ical), visits.
- discuss innovative book forms/book design (presentation: Kate V.)
- Maga/Zine presenations (Kate V., To-Do List)
- workshop your zine pages (Sara, Luke)
Week 12 (4/11)
- Bill Brown, maker of Dreamwhip, visits.
- Maga/Zine presenations (Max, Sorry; Sepi, The Chap)
- workshop your zine pages (Max, Erin)
Week 13 (4/18)
Week 14 (4/25)
- Maga/Zine presenations (Anne, Loud Paper, Erin, Totally Mag!;, Nensi, Bomb, Travis, Hot & Cold)
- workshop your zine pages (Anne, Nensi, Kate V., Travis)
Week 15 (5/2)
- present your individual zine project.
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