MA Book Arts
The concept of the book is explored through analysis of both its form and function while its increasingly important role within interdisciplinary practice underpins the course.
As the Internet begins to free the book from its traditional cultural role as container of information, book artists are at the forefront of creating and evolving a new role and identity for the book. Students discuss the changing nature of the book with reference to both its historical context and its relationship to current professional practice. Book Arts recognises the eclectic nature of the book and encompasses production of multiples, the unique, the precious or ephemeral, installation, digital imaging, paper engineering, documentary or poetry; from what can be envisaged to what has not yet been recognised.
The book is explored in the context of contemporary art as a focus for analytical visual practice, and enables graduates to contribute to the international discourse surrounding book arts.
Jiyoung Hwang
Plenty of people travel, they emigrate, immigrate, travel through lots of different places for lots of different reasons. I myself have been moving for along time, living in different countries. My work shows a diversity of the life and is particularly meaningful because it relates to my identity.
Jiyoung Hwang
MA Book Arts
jiyoung1045@naver.com
Momoko Kida
I'm making books based on the idea of "inconvenience". Portability of books always gives us options, but restriction of time and space can make books more valuable than a laptop. To experience something which only happens where and when you open the book, you can't help buy open and check it.
Momoko Kida
MA Book Arts
kidamo@mac.com
web.mac.com/kidamo/iWeb
Lucid obscurity
There are moments when things get clear through nonsensical coincidence. Through dealing with my dream journal written for a year, I have faced those moments intentionally. Repeated deciphering scrawls and tracing ambiguous sketches created a number of versions of each episode thereby clear illusions of the vague happenings have been often captured.
Dong Wan Kook
MA Book Arts
wan1770@gmail.com
Hayley Joyce McPhun
The book facilitates an intriguing conversation between private intimacy and exposed revelation. It is this capability that enhances the content of my work. Being of a personal nature, my work has come to rely heavily on the Books demand for interaction to help intensify the reader's experience.
Hayley Joyce McPhun
MA Book Arts
mcphun_writes@hotmail.com
www.hayleyjoycemcphun.com.uk
James Riordan
Detail from Translating Le Roman Du Lievre/Skinning a Rabbit.
James Riordan
MA Book Arts
sunotifosu@yahoo.com
