Language of the Book : Volume I–III Investigations of the conceptual and bodily experience of reading and making books

University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för design, inredningsarkitektur och visuell kommunikation (DIV)

Author: Kajsa Bornedal; [2021]

Keywords: Book; storytelling; format; paper engineering; pop-up; Artist Book; analogue; paper; medium; communication; The medium is the massage; The medium is the message; reading experience; prototypes; book arts; narration; linear time; single voice; perspectives; McLuhan; Bok; bokhantverk; pop-up; narrativ; läsupplevelse; McLuhan; kommunikation;

Abstract: The project Language of the Book Volume I-III explores the conceptual and the bodily experience of reading and making books. The essay presents the development of Volume I: Narracube consisting of three storytelling prototypes. With Narracube a format was developed that can invite stories to be told beyond single voices, linear time and fixed points of views. Narracube highlights the active role of a medium in transmission of a message. A book is never a neutral container for ink but an active space of communication in its mere contruction despite its content. 

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