The Tactile Comics of Shapereader

Manouach, Ilan

doi:10.1162/leon_a_02202

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The Tactile Comics of Shapereader

Manouach, Ilan

2022 • In Leonardo, 55 (3), p. 291 - 296

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Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Engineering (miscellaneous); Music; Computer Science Applications

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[en] Shapereader is a system for tactile storytelling specifically designed for visually impaired readers and makers of comics. Its interface is built on a repertoire of free-floating tactile ideograms intended to provide haptic translations of the semantic features, conceptual functions and attributes of a textual expression. Shapereader works challenge the assumptions and exclusions of graphic literature and explore the conditions for synthesizing language through embodied notions of materiality and performativity. Shapereader situates touch as a conduit for vibrant artistic exploration and demonstrates that comics can address a diverse readership. Promoting an embodied, nonretinal narrative experience with an ongoing outreach plan, Shapereader has been unfolding worldwide in a variety of formats, contexts and collaborations.

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Literature

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Manouach, Ilan ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Traverses ; Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

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English

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The Tactile Comics of Shapereader

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26 May 2022

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Leonardo

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0024-094X

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MIT Press Journals

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291 - 296

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