Squares, Circles and Dirty Windows: A Toolkit for Studying the Materiality of Digital Comics

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Hague, Ian (2015) Squares, Circles and Dirty Windows: A Toolkit for Studying the Materiality of Digital Comics. In: Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics, 24-26 April 2015, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

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Type of Research:	Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item
Creators:	Hague, Ian
Description:	This keynote considered three ways to study the materiality of digital comics: 1. The metaphor of the dirty window (to be looked at rather than through). 2. The contrast between circles as circles (as producible via analogue production techniques) and squares that represent circles (as used in the digital pixel grid. 3. A move from text to reader, considering file types, software, firmware and hardware.
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:	comics, graphic narrative
Your affiliations with UAL:	Colleges > London College of Communication
Date:	April 2015
Event Location:	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2025 16:58
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2025 16:58
Item ID:	24673
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24673
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