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Book SynopsisRefresh the Book contains reflections on the multimodal nature of the book, focusing on its changing perception, functions, forms, and potential in the digital age. Offering an overview of key concepts and approaches, such as liberature, technotexts, and bookishness, this volume of essays addresses the specificity of the printed book as a complex cultural phenomenon. It discusses diverse forms of representation and expression, both in literary and non-literary texts, as well as in artist’s books. Of special interest are these aspects of the book which resist remediation into the digital form. Finally, the volume contains an extensive section devoted to artistic practice as research, discussing the book as the synthesis of the arts, and site for performative aesthetic activity. Christin Barbarino, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Christoph Bläsi, Sarah Bodman, Zenon Fajfer, Annette Gilbert, Susanne Gramatzki, Mareike Herbstreit, Viola Hildebrand-Schat, Thomas Hvid Kromann, Monika Jäger, Eva Linhart, Bettina Lockemann, Patrizia Meinert, Bernhard Metz, Sebastian Schmideler, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Christoph Benjamin Schulz, usus (Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz), Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sakine Weikert, Gabriele Wix
Table of ContentsForeword Katarzyna Bazarnik, Viola Hildebrand-Schat and Christoph Benjamin Schulz Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing: An Introduction Viola Hildebrand-Schat PART 1 Methodologies/Concepts/Approaches 1 Empirical Preprocessing Approaches from Multimodality Research for the Printed Book Christoph Bläsi 2 Affordances of the Book A Tentative Typology of Liberature Katarzyna Bazarnik 3 The Book as Reading Machine and as Black Box On Book Machines and Machine Books Monika Schmitz-Emans 4 Varieties of Contemporary Artistic Publishing Annette Gilbert 5 Artists’ Books and their Institutionalisation in the Digital Age Thomas Hvid Kromann 6 Digital Bookishness and Digitally Enhanced Publications Against the Backdrop of Apologies of the Book during the Advent of Digital Media Christoph Benjamin Schulz 7 ABC Book, Orbis Pictus, Pictorial Primer On the Materiality of 19th-Century Concept Picture Books between the Aura of the Book Object and the Challenges of the Digital Humanities Sebastian Schmideler 8 The Photobook An Approach Incorporating Aspects of Activity Bettina Lockemann 9 Spending Time within Books Sarah Bodman 10 Re-Readings Philosophy and Its Presentation in the (Artist’s) Book Susanne Gramatzki 11 The Exhibition Space On the Hybridity of the Publication Between Execution and Extension of Spatiotemporal Concepts Viola Hildebrand-Schat 12 Bookishness and the Body of the Book/ the Body of the Reader On the Usages of Books Bernhard Metz PART 2 Artists’ Statements/ Artists’ Examples 13 Liberature A New Constellation in the Gutenberg Galaxy Zenon Fajfer 14 The Making of Artists’ Books Craft-Based Production Processes Viewed from an Artistic Standpoint Patrizia Meinert 15 Betwixt & Between Some Thoughts on the Subject of the Fold and Folding in the Context of the Book ‹usus› Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz 16 : Artists’ Books in the Digital Transition From Mechanical Typesetting to Fax Machines and Email Exchange Monika Jäger 17 Conception – Construction – Deconstruction An Alternative Way to Read a Book: Tobias Tank’s Hier öffnen Viola Hildebrand-Schat 18 The Red Thread in Hier Öffnen – Ein wahrlich Einmaliges Buch (Open Here – A Truly Unique Book) On Tobias Tank Mareike Herbstreit 19 Visual Notes Teju Cole’s Blind Spot/#blindspot, between Analogue and Digital Narrative Devices Sakine Weikert 20 Jan van der Til The Hybrid Artist’s Book Anne Thurmann-Jajes 21 La Perfecta Casada by Elena del Rivero Historical Text and Book Performance Christin Barbarino 22 The Exhibition Catalogue A Hybrid between Documentation and Seduction, Research and Cultural Business, Applied and Autonomous Art Gabriele Wix 23 Michael Riedel Books as Event Eva Linhart Index
