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)

• introduction
• watch $100 and a T-shirt

Week 2 (1/31)

• discuss appropriation & detournement
• bring your ad interventions

• Berin Golonu, curator of YCBA's The Zine UnBound show, visits.
• appreciations of consumer culture
• bring your one-page postcard zine

• 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

• 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)

• discuss binding techniques (presentation: Sepi, Erin)
• workshop your zine pages (Sara, Anne, Kate P, Nensi, Sepi, Lauren, Christina)

Spring Break • Spring Break • Spring Break • Spring Break • Spring Break

Week 10 (3/28)

• Jaime Robles, book artist, visits.
• discuss book forms/book design (presentation: Max)
• Maga/Zine presentation (Luke, Action Figure Digest)

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)

• Lev, maker of Tales of Mere Existence, visits.
• Maga/Zine presenations ( Courtenay & Kate P., Cabinet; Lauren, Make Magazine; Christina Young & Broke; Sara, Things Magazine)
• workshop your zine pages (Christina, Courtenay, Lauren, Kate P.)

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.