What's on archive 2011

Seminar: Comic book markup

13 Jan 2011, 17:30-19:30, G32, Senate House, Senate House

Event series: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
School / area: Arts & Humanities
Department: Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Location: Senate House
Speaker: Dr Ernesto Priego
Speaker institution: University College London

The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book.

In this seminar, 'Comic Book Markup Language: Challenges and Opportunities', Dr Priego will argue that comics as a communicative language has historically expressed itself through a kind of unique materiality that has often varied from culture to culture. The seminar will explore how this materiality differs from that of other media and how it produces and is simultaneously the consequence of particular 'textual topologies'. He will argue that comics are partially untranslatable to digital and other media. The materiality of comics helps us to interrogate the idea that such translation can be done without significant loss or without making the work into something else. He will argue further that the standard method of digital encoding alone is insufficient, that comic book digitization and text encoding need to take into account the non-digitisable aspects of comic book publications, in other words, spatio-temporal textual dimensions that cannot be fully represented on a computer screen or interface.

For more information see tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/.



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Email: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
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