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@MISC{Paton_simultaneousinterpretation:,
author = {David Paton},
title = {Simultaneous Interpretation:},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
In this paper I argue that many of the conventions of digitally-based work or the electronic screen have been presupposed, suggested or, in fact, achieved in the ‘phenomenal ’ or Artist’s Book and that the book, in the hands of the artist, becomes infused with interpretive acts. I attempt to unpack the suggestive ways in which selected examples of South African Artists ’ Books are already virtual; where the codex is an interactive and dynamic form and in which the idea of a book is grounded in what it does rather than what it is. The belief that the codex embodies fundamental ‘limitations ’ and ‘drawbacks ’ when compared with digital forms is premised on the book as a supposedly static, fixed and finite form. That these supposed ‘limitations ’ and ‘drawbacks ’ can only be overcome through the interactive features of the digital is a position I wish to contests. This paper is based upon the catalogue essays which accompanied my
