Transformative Behaviors
In this chapter, the focus is on the transformative qualities of Islamic calligraphy. Through theory and praxis, the chapter explores the situation in which calligraphic forms change shape so completely that they lose their initial verbal identity entirel
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ARABIC SCRIPT IN MOTION A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art
Arabic Script in Motion
M. Javad Khajavi
Arabic Script in Motion A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art
M. Javad Khajavi Volda University College Volda, Norway
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For Yasamin and my parents
Preface
One of the characteristics of the contemporary media landscape is its tendency to astonish and enthrall through creating multimodal sensory experiences. Today, a little more than a century after the invention of cinema, temporal audio-visual media are dramatically changing the ways in which we experience the world. Meanwhile, in a culture that is rapidly becoming dominated by screen-based media and moving image content, text in its various modes of representation increasingly appears in dynamic forms. Indeed, textual information today is being communicated through time- based media more than ever before. Text displayed in TV commercials, in the user interfaces of various websites and computer programs, in applications on our smartphones, and on the large screens of the Times Square in New York City or the Dotonbori area in Osaka have one thing in common: they don’t stay still and they try to draw viewers’ attention by moving or changing. Meanwhile, text written in the Arabic system of writing (i.e. the script used for writing many languages including but not limited to the Arabic language) also increasingly appears on screen-base
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