"Shapereader" and the Case for Tactile Comics

Normal Now! Art and Dis/ability in a Digital World

In the present paper, the focus is brought on Shapereader’s early
implementation and the first systematic attempt to address the sense of touch
in the production of comics. Arctic Circle is a tactile novel, presented as a
museum installation including several work-specific communication boards
designed both for sighted and visually impaired visitors. I will walk through
some of the strategies used to translate concepts and elementary semantic
features into haptic formations and explore how meaning signification
proceeds through clustering and the use of productive chains of signifiers that
ultimately propel the text of Arctic Circle to a structural instability. The
research was conducted during the artist’s residency at the Onassis Labs in
Athens.

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