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KATARZYNA BAZARNIK, PhD, is a literary scholar, translator, and curator of Liberature Reading Room. She lectures at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She has published on James Joyce, experimental novel, literary theory, especially liberature, and literary translation.CHRISTOPH BENJAMIN SCHULZ, DPhil, is a literary scholar and art historian. He researches aspects of the materiality and mediality of literary communication, such as strategies for the aestheticisation and semantisation of books in recent literary practice as well as in the history of the book and literature. Beside his academic activities, he has developed exhibitions for well-known museums. VIOLA HILDEBRAND-SCHAT studied literature, philosophy and psychology (M.A.) and received a PhD in Art history. She lectures at Goethe-University/Frankfurt am Main and Lomonosov State University Moscow. She specializes in Contemporary Art. She has published on Marcel Broodthaers and artists' books.

• ForewordKatarzyna Bazarnik, Viola Hildebrand-Schat and Christoph Benjamin SchulzAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsThe Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing: An IntroductionViola Hildebrand-SchatPART 1Methodologies/Concepts/Approaches1 Empirical PreprocessingApproaches from Multimodality Research for the Printed BookChristoph Bläsi2 Affordances of the BookA Tentative Typology of LiberatureKatarzyna Bazarnik3 The Book as Reading Machine and as Black BoxOn Book Machines and Machine BooksMonika Schmitz-Emans4 Varieties of Contemporary Artistic PublishingAnnette Gilbert5 Artists’ Books and their Institutionalisation in the Digital AgeThomas Hvid Kromann6 Digital Bookishness and Digitally Enhanced Publications Against the Backdrop of Apologies of the Book during the Advent of Digital MediaChristoph Benjamin Schulz7 ABC Book, Orbis Pictus, Pictorial PrimerOn the Materiality of 19th-Century Concept Picture Books between the Aura of the Book Object and the Challenges of the Digital HumanitiesSebastian Schmideler8 The PhotobookAn Approach Incorporating Aspects of ActivityBettina Lockemann9 Spending Time within BooksSarah Bodman10 Re-ReadingsPhilosophy and Its Presentation in the (Artist’s) BookSusanne Gramatzki11 The Exhibition SpaceOn the Hybridity of the Publication Between Execution and Extension of Spatiotemporal ConceptsViola Hildebrand-Schat12 Bookishness and the Body of the Book/ the Body of the ReaderOn the Usages of BooksBernhard MetzPART 2Artists’ Statements/ Artists’ Examples13 LiberatureA New Constellation in the Gutenberg GalaxyZenon Fajfer14 The Making of Artists’ BooksCraft-Based Production Processes Viewed from an Artistic StandpointPatrizia Meinert15 Betwixt & BetweenSome Thoughts on the Subject of the Fold and Folding in the Context of the Book‹usus› Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz16 : Artists’ Books in the Digital TransitionFrom Mechanical Typesetting to Fax Machines and Email ExchangeMonika Jäger17 Conception – Construction – DeconstructionAn Alternative Way to Read a Book: Tobias Tank’s Hier öffnenViola Hildebrand-Schat18 The Red Thread in Hier Öffnen – Ein wahrlich Einmaliges Buch (Open Here – A Truly Unique Book)On Tobias TankMareike Herbstreit19 Visual NotesTeju Cole’s Blind Spot/#blindspot, between Analogue and Digital Narrative DevicesSakine Weikert20 Jan van der TilThe Hybrid Artist’s BookAnne Thurmann-Jajes21 La Perfecta Casada by Elena del RiveroHistorical Text and Book PerformanceChristin Barbarino22 The Exhibition CatalogueA Hybrid between Documentation and Seduction, Research and Cultural Business, Applied and Autonomous ArtGabriele Wix23 Michael RiedelBooks as EventEva LinhartIndex