FROM BOOK FORM TO ARCHITECTURES OF READING: A DESIGN-LED STUDY OF ARTISTS' BOOKS WITHIN THE SPACES OF THE COLLECTION

当媒体历史学家和评论家争论印刷页面和实体书籍的消亡以及书籍历史研究激增时，数字人文学科的关键声音（Hayles，Schnapp，Drucker）谈到了特定媒体调查的必要性以及改变阅读范式和书籍对象处理对出版，教育和认知的影响。海尔斯明确指出，艺术家书籍的材料和概念领域是探索新知识的理论方向的重要来源。本研究将从艺术家的书籍中学习，并运用创新的设计研究方法，探讨书籍形式与阅读的姿势、空间和建筑之间的关系。它将在理论上由马拉美的"书作为一种智力工具，预定和建筑“的愿景和热内特的阐述动员在检查的材料，空间和感官方面的书籍空间和阅读的具体网站的经验。虽然参考马拉美的实验诗是无处不在的学术，并有越来越多的兴趣在热内特的工作副文本，建筑的潜力都没有被认为是在研究，链接到物理空间的书的形式，其阅读。本研究将对《建筑书》（塔瓦雷斯）的解剖研究扩展到对《艺术家之书》的探索，其前提是阅读的空间是一个复杂的感官书籍对象（与其纹理，表面，结构，节奏和规模）是由书本身，通过阅读姿势和材料实践来参与书的感官属性。认识到书作为知识的关键对象的研究潜力，本研究将以国立美术馆现当代艺术档案馆中艺术家书籍的多样性为研究对象。从收藏中最具挑战性的感官作品开始，它将通过一系列研究驱动的策展活动和材料输出进行，这些活动和材料输出将检查阅读的空间和表面，存储和处理的模式，归档和编目的实践，阅读姿势和显示惯例。它将考虑收集的具体需求以及各种空间，媒体和互动，存储和显示技术的实践和经验。这项研究将进行，而NGS作为客户端的一个新的国家收藏设施设在格兰顿将设计的专业建筑师。这项研究的设计研究模式将与设计工作并行，并将为新设施的公共咨询和研究空间的发展做出富有成效的贡献。该研究将产生三个相互关联的有形产出：书面和插图的论文在一个实验性的书籍对象的形式，一个展览，其中包括选定的书籍形式的收藏为基础的显示，并设计阅读/显示和研究空间的集合。通过研究书籍艺术的理论，材料实践，类型学和技术，它将开发定制的研究方法和建筑设计/场景，用于研究阅读的历史和当代范式以及体验图像-文本和书籍空间的模式。该项目补充了在收藏中观察和研究的现有做法，将扩展和挑战现有的关于书籍形式和感官参与的惯例的学术研究，这些书籍在概念，物理和数字空间的收藏，档案，阅读，教学和研究中。

At the time when media historians and critics debate the demise of printed page and physical book and studies of book history proliferate, key voices in digital humanities (Hayles, Schnapp, Drucker) speak for necessity of media-specific enquiry and the impact of changing paradigms of reading and handling of book objects on publishing, education and cognition. Hayles explicitly points to the material and conceptual terrain of artists' books as a critical source of theoretical orientation in navigating new knowledges. Learning from artists' books, and deploying innovative methodologies of design research, this study will investigate relationships between the book form and gestures, spaces and architectures of reading. It will be framed theoretically by Mallarme's vision of 'book as an intellectual instrument, predetermined and architectural' and Genette's elaboration of paratextuality mobilized in examination of material, spatial and sensorial aspects of book space and reading in relation to specific sites of experience. While references to Mallarmé's experimental poem are ubiquitous in scholarship, and there is a growing interest in Genette's work on paratext, the architectural potentials of both have not been considered in research that links the book's form to physical spaces of its reading. Extending the research on the anatomy of the Architectural Book (Tavares) to exploration of the Artists' Books, this study will operate from the premise that the space of reading a complex sensorial book object (with its textures, surfaces, structure, rhythm and scale) is informed by the book itself, engaging the book's sensorial attributes through reading gestures and material practices.Recognising research potentials of the book as a critical object of knowledge, this research will develop from close examination of the multiplicity of forms of Artists' Books in the Modern & Contemporary Art Archive of NGS. Beginning with a selection of most challenging sensorial works from the collection, it will proceed through a series of research-driven curatorial events and material outputs that will examine spaces and surfaces of reading, modes of storing and handling, practices of archiving and cataloguing, reading gestures and display conventions. It will consider specific needs of the collection together with practices and experiences across various spaces, media and technologies of interaction, storage and display. This research will take place whilst NGS acts as client for a new National Collections Facility sited at Granton to be designed by professionally situated architects. The Research By Design mode of this study will run in parallel with the design work and will productively contribute to the development of public consultation and research spaces of the new facility. The research will result in three interconnected tangible outputs: the written and illustrated thesis in the form of an experimental book object, an exhibition that includes the collection-based display of selected book forms, and designs for reading/display and research spaces for the collection. From examining theories, material practices, typologies and technologies of book art, it will develop bespoke research methodologies and architectural designs/scenarios for engaging with book form that will investigate the historical and contemporary paradigms of reading and modes of experiencing image-text and book space. Complementing existing practices observed and examined in the collection, the project will extend and challenge existing scholarship on book form and conventions of sensorial engagement with books in conceptual, physical and digital spaces of collections, archives, reading, teaching and research.