JUNE 04-08
Jenn Libby The Art of Wet-Plate Collodion
Abbey Hendrickson The Art of Social Media: Creating and Maintaining a Social Media Footprint
Jason Bernagozzi Video Installation: Navigating Space and Signal

JUNE 07-08
Douglas Holleley Intention and Effect: Choosing Your Words

JUNE 11-15
Bridget Elmer Free the Book: Self-Publishing with Open Source Software
Meredith Davenport Making a Magazine
Liz Ronk Fundamentals of Photo Editing for the Web

JUNE 14-16
Ahndraya Parlato Photographic Conversations

JUNE 15-16
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
Methods and Place

JUNE 18-22
Ingrid Hess Artists' Books: Basic Bookbinding
Wendy Smith Introduction to the Documentary Form
Tate Shaw Photographic Sequence

JUNE 21-22
Rick Hock Drawing for Photographers and Anyone Else Interested in Mark Making Systems

JUNE 21-23
Richard Kegler Font Design in FontLab

JUNE 25-26
Gregory Halpern Twenty Photobooks I Love and Why

JUNE 25-27
Scott McCarney Bookbinding in the Age of Digital Production

JUNE 27-28
John DeMerritt Photography and the Book Form

JULY 02-06
Tracy Rudzitis Web Design for Artists
Keith Johnson The Extended Image Judy Natal Image • Text • Context

Free the Book: Self-Publishing with Open Source Software
Bridget Elmer
Monday through Friday, June 11-15
9:30am-5:00pm; $550

*This course is available for 3 Undergraduate or 2 Graduate credits. http://www.brockport.edu/ssp/summer/

This course will explore the potential for integrating Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) with the more traditional processes of bookmaking and self-publication. Students will be introduced to a variety of FLOSS options, including NeoOffice (word processing), Gimp (image manipulation), Inkscape (vector graphics editor), Scribus (desktop publishing) and Processing (programming language for creating images, animations and interactions). In addition, a variety of bookmaking techniques and structures will be demonstrated, empowering students to combine digital and analog processes in the realization of a finished bookwork. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to consider the book in its entirety, removing boundaries between form and content to create work that enacts their concepts comprehensively.

Bridget Elmer is an artist, bookmaker and letterpress printer working in Asheville, NC, where she is currently rebuilding her 19th century platen press, tuning up her 20th century flatbed truck, and retrofitting 21st century open source philosophy to book technologies. She received her MFA in the Book Arts from the University of Alabama in 2010, and she will graduate with her Masters in Library and Information Studies in the fall of 2011. Having recently taught book arts as an Adjunct Professor at Florida State University and a Visiting Art Professor at Colorado College, Bridget currently serves as an Instructor at Asheville BookWorks. Bridget is the sole proprietor of Flatbed Splendor and the Co-Operator of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts.