Collins Living-Learning Center

Books are one of the most ordinary and familiar objects in our lives. We tend to think of books as simple containers of words and of works that can be accessed in a variety of formats: in print or in e-book, in disembodied PDF scans, or in fragmented GoogleBooks search results. Yet the book as object represents a realm of continual technological and artistic experimentation. This course offers an introduction to the book as historical, cultural, and material object through immersive, hands-on making experiments. Organizing our inquiry into thematic modules which  might include commercial and artisanal book production, libraries and archives, performance, and books and the sacred, among others, we will situate the book or codex among other text formats and within a variety of cultural and historical contexts.

Instructor: Liz Hebbard

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