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Week 16 P2 Original Bootleg Presentations Week 2 12/18
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Week 15 P2 Original Bootleg Presentations Week 1 12/11

Support Your Local Bootlegger Tote Bag, by The Second Best Damn Petshop
- Exhition Team Updates
- Team leaders share a schedule and working plan over the break
- P2: Original Bootleg Final Presentations Week 1
- Please check the Google Document for more information about critique
- For those presenting next week, prepare for P2: Original Bootleg Final Presentations Week 2!
- Group Exhibition Teams continue working based on your schedules
- Installation will take place January 22nd and 23rd in preparation for a January 24th opening
- Zoom meeting with Goto and team leaders – Monday, Dec 15th at 4pm (check class Google doc for more info)
- Please submit a class archive to Chris (chamamoto@snu.ac.kr), and Dong Gun (donggunkim93@snu.ac.kr) via WeTransfer by Dec 19. This should include photos / screenshots / screen recordings, a short description of your projects (P1 and P2), and any presentation materials you shared before (PDF, etc.)
- Exhition Team Updates
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Week 14 Sampling 12/04

Seungyong Moon
- Exhition Team Updates
- Small Group Meetings to discuss P2: Step 3 – Rough Draft
- Guest talk by Seungyong Moon
- P2: Step 4 – Original Bootleg
- We will begin reviews of P2 next week!
- Group Exhibition
- Team leaders coordinate between groups to finalize schedule and make a working plan over the break
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Week 13 Working Session 11/27

NYC Times Square Mascots
- Meet in the classroom for a peer-working session
- Please check in with your exhibition groups and about your individual projects
- If you'd like feedback from Chris after class begins meet him in room 326
- P2: Step 3 – Rough Draft
- Create a rough draft of your bootleg. It should be 95% complete!
- Group Exhibition
- Bring a group update around your concept and references
- Meet in the classroom for a peer-working session
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Week 12 Group Meetings 11/20

“NOT FOR SALE” (Paris Edition), Source Type
- Group Exhibition Check-in
- Small Group Meetings to discuss P2: Step 2 – Bootleg Prototype
- P2: Step 3 – Rough Draft
- Make progress on a rough draft of your bootleg
- Group Exhibition
- If you're participating in the show, work with your group and prepare a basic proposal for your idea
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Week 11 Conspiracies 11/13

Frank Chu
- Folder presentation by Chris
- Discuss P2: Step 1 – Design Fiction in small groups
- P2: Step 2 – Bootleg Prototype
- Based on feedback from last class, sketch 2 concepts for your bootleg including an artifact from its founding fiction.
- Group Exhibition
- Think about if you'd like to participate in the exhibition, and if so how – installing in Japan, making the graphic identity, group publication, etc.
- Given what we know about ASAHISONOMA, and our class' work, consider a proposal for the exhibition's framing device
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Week 10 Worlding 11/06

Symbology, Trevor Paglen
- Group Discussion on Written into Existence
by Ben Schwartz - Intro to P2: Original Bootleg
- Unrealized Archive Presentation
- P2: Step 1 – Design Fiction
- Create a proposal for your bootleg, imagining one “founding fiction” that validates its existence. Put together a short presentation (~5 minutes) introducing your bootleg concept and the fiction that surrounds it.
- Group Discussion on Written into Existence
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Week 9 P1 Review 10/30

Michael Jackson wearing bootleg Popeye the Sailor t-shirt
- Share your final Bootleg Archive
- Read Written into Existence
by Ben Schwartz and prepare 3 questions/discussion points for next class
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Week 8 Rough Draft pt 2 10/23
- Share your progress on your Bootleg Archive in small groups
- Sign up for a group meeting in the class Google Doc, you only need to come for your meeting time
- Based on feedback from today's class, create your final Bootleg Archive. Remember, your project is in two parts:
- An archive containing 15+ bootleg items
- A display mechanism for this archive
- Share your progress on your Bootleg Archive in small groups
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Week 7 Rough Draft 10/16
- Share your progress on your Bootleg Archive in small groups
- Sign up for a group meeting in the class Google Doc, you only need to come for your meeting time (the first meeting will start late at 3:15pm)
Based on feedback from today's class, create your final Bootleg Archive. Remember, your project is in two parts:An archive containing 15+ bootleg itemsA display mechanism for this archive
- Deadline has been extended 1 week!
- Share your progress on your Bootleg Archive in small groups
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Week 6 Chuseok Holiday 10/09

SPAM Chuseok Gift Set
- No class, Happy Chuseok!
- Bring in a rough draft of your Bootleg Archive which contains:
- An archive containing 15+ bootleg items
- A display mechanism for this archive
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Week 5 LATCH 10/02

100% Better Than Original , Nick Sethi & Brian Paul Lamotte
- Share your 2 proposals for your final archive in small groups
- Reminder: Next week is the Chuseok Holiday and there won't be class. Have a great Chuseok!
For next in-person class (Oct 16): select one of your proposals and create your final Bootleg Archive. Remember, your project is in two parts:- Bring in a rough draft your project which contains:
- An archive containing 15+ bootleg items
- A display mechanism for this archive
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Week 4 Collections (1 Hour Bootleg) 09/25

Lost Formats Society, Experimental Jetset
- Finish Exercise: One Hour Bootleg
- Share 20 items from your P1: Bootleg Archive
- Chris shares LATCH
- Working with Bootleg Archive items, create 2 proposals for final archive presentation. Your proposals should include platform / format / production method (book, website, riso prints, IG account, etc.), visual sketches, and any other relevant information.
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Week 3 100 Beste Plakate 09/18

100 Beste Plakate in Korea
- Meet at 100 Beste Plakate at 3pm for a tour with organizer Jeff Kichang Kim of [rojotype]()
- Doosung Paper Gallery 1st and 2nd floors, 41 Saimdang-ro 23-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul
- 두성페이퍼갤러리 1 ~ 2층, 서울시 서초구 사임당로23길 41
- Begin collecting bootlegs for your P1: Bootleg Archive and bring them to next class – try to bring at least 20 objects!
- Reminder: next class we will create our 1 hour bootleg
- Meet at 100 Beste Plakate at 3pm for a tour with organizer Jeff Kichang Kim of [rojotype]()
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Week 2 1 Hour Bootleg 09/11

NASA Chair, Tom Sachs
- Discuss Under the Cover of Darkness by Ben Schwartz
- Presentations on Bootleg Research Zones (P1: Step 1)
- Exercise: One Hour Bootleg
- Select 1 research subject and begin your bootleg collection
- Reminder: Next week meet at 100 Beste Plakate at 3pm
- Doosung Paper Gallery 1st and 2nd floors, 41 Saimdang-ro 23-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul
- 두성페이퍼갤러리 1 ~ 2층, 서울시 서초구 사임당로23길 41
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Week 1 Welcome 09/04

John Paul Ringo George, Experimental Jetset
- Introductions and Class overview
- Intro to P1: Bootleg Archive
- Bootleg Presentation
- Create a short ~6 minute presentation about one to two potential bootleg research subjects. Bring a bootleg object with you if you can!
- Read Under the Cover of Darkness
by Ben Schwartz and prepare 3 questions/discussion points for next class
Dates
Topic
Notes
Week 1-7
P1 Bootleg Archive
Create and present an archive of bootlegs
Week 7-15
P2 Original Bootleg
Design and manufacture your own bootleg
Post Fall 2025
Exhibition
Exhibit our works from the class (optional)
Sept 18
100 Beste Plakate
Visit 100 Beste Plakate to speak with rojotype about the exhibition


