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Reading of Empty Media

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  • 1. Sofia University

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The research is dedicated to two questions: whether the media bearers without text, the books without letters and the entirely emtpty book could be called books and whether they could be readable. The medialogical analysis is oriented to the creative decisions for transformation of the emptiness or the silence into media, when the emptiness of the media body represents a metamessage about reading without eyes. It is made a systematical survey of a maximum wide spectrum of empty media – empty fine art, empty musical compositions, empty literary works, empty books, empty newspapers, empty pages. There were discovered 13 reasons about the existence of a total or partial emptiness in media.

Keywords: empty media, empty book, reading of sillens, white space, media studies, design challenges

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