{"id":4728,"date":"2016-03-06T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4728"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:07:28","slug":"a-e-book-theme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4728","title":{"rendered":"Theme issue: The Photobook in Digital Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/?page_id=1134\">Return to Table of Content<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157905374\" width=\"250\" height=\"204.5\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">The VASA Journal on Images and Culture invited essays, videos and e-publications that inquired into the photographic e-book.\u00a0 Proposals addressed issues related to the disappearance of the object \u2013 the book, new materialities and potentials realized through e-publishing, as well as the challenges, history, and possibilities related to the evolution of e-books.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Gold,\u00a0 VJIC Theme Editor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In 1964 Marshall McLuhan published \u201cUnderstanding Media: The Extensions of Man,\u201d a pioneering study on media theory which proclaimed that the medium is the message. The\u00a0 medium itself, not the content it carries, should be the focus of study.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4734\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4734\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MediumMassage-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"Medium is the Massage\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MediumMassage-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MediumMassage-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MediumMassage.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of the first UK edition, published by Penguin Books (1967)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to McLuhan, the medium is divided into two categories &#8211; \u201chot\u201d and \u201ccold.\u201d A \u201chot medium,\u201d for example, is one that requires all of our attention and leaves little room for participation, such as a book. A \u201ccold medium,\u201d on the other hand, leaves plenty of space for participation \u2013 that would be for example media like television and comic-books.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ad50 years later we are confronted with a novel experience in the face of contemporary media and technology: the e-book.<\/p>\n<p>It is a hybrid of the book and the digital medium. With e-books we still read, we still become absorbed by the content, but we are no longer excluded from participating; we have the ability to interact with an e-book since, by design, we can zoom in and zoom out of pictures, listen to sound, navigate through non-linear hyperlink-connections, and can even create our own e-books.<\/p>\n<p>The book, as an object, is now being challenged in form and content. It has evolved from a stable medium to a virtual, fluid one. The Internet &#8211; the digital &#8211; has changed how we access, produce, disseminate, and think about knowledge, storytelling, and art. Just as music and performance have changed from the traveling minstrels to vaudeville, from the stage to the screen; live voice has evolved from LPs, to tape, to CDs, to the Internet. Our story tellers have changed in form and so has the locus of control and production.<\/p>\n<p>Having all this in mind the VASA Journal on Images and Culture invited essays, videos and e-publications that inquire into the photographic e-book. \u00a0So we sent out a call for Proposals that address issues related to the disappearance of the object, new materialities realized through e-publishing, as well as the challenges, history, and possibilities related to the evolution of e-books.<\/p>\n<table class=\" alignleft\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4854\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4852\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/object-lost-300-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"VASA e-Catalog\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/object-lost-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/object-lost-300-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>The Object Lost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberto Muffoletto<\/strong><br \/>\n(VJIC editor note)<\/p>\n<p>Notably lost in photography communities are discussions related to the disappearance of the object \u2013 the photograph.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4854\">read more &#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4740\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4740\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobia-video-300-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Tobia\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobia-video-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobia-video-300-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>The Fluid Photograph, The Fluid Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blaise Tobia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Digital technologies are highly fluid. Like fluids, they can morph continuously and function as great levelers. Once a medium is subsumed digitally it becomes simply one variant among many, and works become endlessly malleable and reproducible.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4742\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4762\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dalterio-bug1-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 John Dalterio\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dalterio-bug1-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dalterio-bug1-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dalterio-bug1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>Hyperbola Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Dalterio<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyperbola Blue<\/strong>\u00a0 sits somewhere between the traditional photobook and a choose your own adventure game. It uses the flexibility and language of the internet &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4762\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4759\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4780\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMAGE-1-Author-at-Computer-600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Spowart\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMAGE-1-Author-at-Computer-600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMAGE-1-Author-at-Computer-600-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMAGE-1-Author-at-Computer-600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>Photobook Anxeity: Social Media and \u201cIndie\u201d Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Doug Spowart, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I doubt that Henry Fox Talbot or Anna Atkins realized in the 1840s what an impact their first use of photographs in books would have &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4759\">read more &#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4765\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4797\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leporello-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Johannes Raimann\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leporello-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leporello-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leporello.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>\u00a0ein BILDERBUCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Johannes Raimann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The book, <em>ein BILDERBUCH,<\/em> is a laboratory about the question \u201cWhat is a Bild?\u201d &#8230; It is very important to see the book not as an answer but as an experiment and investigative process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4765\">read more &#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_4822\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4767\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4822\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4822\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sarah-archino-fp-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 sarah archino\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sarah-archino-fp-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sarah-archino-fp-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sarah-archino-fp.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab: https:\/\/pacificbinariesredux.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/05\/49\/<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>Pacific Binaries Redux<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>And Or Project by Sarah Archino<br \/>\n<\/strong>The <strong>And Or<\/strong> project presents a remixed and re-evaluated recap of our current online photography exhibition, Pacific Binaries: Redux. In remixing the show we aim to explore the nature of the digital photograph and the issues involved in its exhibition.<a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4767\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to Table of Content The VASA Journal on Images and Culture invited essays, videos and e-publications that inquired into the photographic e-book.\u00a0 Proposals addressed issues related to the disappearance of the object \u2013 the book, new materialities and potentials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=4728\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88910,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2KsSU-1eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}