Openings: Studies in Book Art (E-Journal)
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Animated Pages: The Virtual (R)Evolution of the Book
Get PDFMovement through space, time, and materiality are the prime underpinnings of the artists book form. Elements of structure, sequencing and position, whether hidden or overt, shape an experience – an imagined, created space that can be at once “read” and felt. The fictional animated pages seen in every Harry Potter movie become a metaphor for the myth of created space-time. They epitomize the absorbing effects of created experience. They combine our embedded “knowledge” of the printed page with progressive temporal and spatial development and technological adventure. These combinations invoke diverse contemporary forms as the book leaves its material skin, combining immateriality and memory with invented experience. The videos of the 2004 Indonesia-based collective Tromarama use the page-like sequentiality of stop-motion animation, combining techniques such as woodcut, photocopy, collage, embroidery, etching, and drawing to the sound of trash metal bands. The prints of Edward Bernstein become the visual framework in an imaginary video dance. The paper figures of William Kentridge assume living characters. The videos of Patricia Villalobos Echeverria embed themselves into her artists books. The flow of images into time is also reversed, in the conversation between moving media and woodcut in the work of Christiane Baumgartner, as journeys through time become halted by the woodcut print. My interest in such transformations is through my practice in prints, books, and eventually through the immersive medium of virtual reality. In these VR works, book-like components of structure, sequencing and position, whether seen or unseen combine active real-time participation with the discovery of ancient images from archeology, historical texts, and proto-verbal markings. Visitors connect with each other in its environment, by creating their own gestural tracery within its sphere
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No full textOpenings: Studies in Book Art is the new journal of the College Book Art Association (CBAA). This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum to examine the book as a work of art and to understand the broader context in which book art is situated, ranging from related fields in the visual arts to the practices of collecting libraries. With an especial focus on pedagogy in the book art field, CBAA brings together book artists, scholars, and students to foster teaching, scholarship, and artistic practice.This first issue includes an analysis of a work by a well-known book artist,an exploration of electronic media and how they expand the idea of the book, an inquiry into the symbolism of pictorial depictions of the library, and a structural exposition of the bibliographic, linguistic, and narrative coding of a complex work of fiction
The Book as Computer: A Numerical and Topological Analysis of Only Revolutions
Get PDFoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3The novel Only Revolutions: The Democracy of Two Set Out & Chronologically Arranged (2006), by Mark Z. Danielewski, establishes a relationship between its bibliographic coding (i.e., its graphical and material form as a book made of letters, pages and openings with a specific typographic design), its linguistic coding (i.e., its phonetic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic form), and its narrative coding (i.e., its form as story). Only Revolutions uses the Möbius strip and the circle, in their multiple material and symbolic manifestations – including letter and number shapes – as the organizing principle of this triple universe of signs. Circularity and mirror symmetry function simultaneously as the structure of the book, the structure of language, and the structure of narrative. This article describes the book’s numerical and topological form as a mechanism for creating feedback loops between those structures
Imago Librariae
Get PDFThe article analyzes a couple of book illustrations where images of libraries or complex allegories are used to depict a library collection development, a scientific method, a spiritual utopia, a book’s content or library owner’s scientific interests. The examples presented and analyzed are taken from “Einleitung in die Bücherkunde” (Denis, 1777–1778), “Catalogus bibliographicus librorum in Bibliotheca Caes. Reg. et equestris Academiae Theresianae” (Sartori, 1801), “Nouvelle bibliotheque des auteurs ecclesiastiques” (Dupin, 1690-1741), “Theatrum anonymorum and pseudonymorum” (Placius, 1708) and “Deliciae Cobresianae” (Cobres, 1782), which are a part of the Slovenian National and University Library Old Prints Collection
