Text Mapping as Modelling • What is a text? • How is it different from a map? • What is the relationship to landscape? • A written or printed text, too, is a space, but a space obeying quite different spatiotemporal and semiotic rules than a map does • … and given the land we meet on … Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide
The walk and embodied memory
Mediated space Speech Map Text happens in time extends in space extends in space Orality Geometry Sequentiality Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide
Living and communicating textual space oral time body physical landscape map geometry
How we may think Narrative/description Indexical geometry oral and written language maps “We often crossed the border. I mean, we wanted to get beyond the town and the lake. It did not divide us really. It was there, true, and it made a distinction between them and us. But it was also a token of the possibility of crossing it. It was some sort of invitation to move beyond.” Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide
Sign system – context differences From Oxford I travelled towards the morning sun and reached London in the evening. Cambridge Oxford London Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide
Time, space and syntax “B is north east of A” Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide
Mediation of experience Landscape Cultural Embodied memory personal Influences experience mediation Influences Understand media how expressions based on landscape personal embodied is seen experience .
The (de)contextualised body Understanding based on landscape experience Landscape learned from media Reading, listening Walking Context different In the context of the from content landscape ? Media memories Bodily memories context medium
Media modalities (Elleström) Modality Map Speech Written text Material Flat surface Sound waves Flat surface thorugh the air Sensorial Seeing, (feeling) Hearing Seeing, (feeling) Spatiotemporal Space Time manifested Space manifested in in the material manifested in the material interface the material interface interface Cognitive space Cognitive space Cognitive space Virtual space (Virtual time) Virtual space Perceptual time Perceptual time Perceptual time Semiotic Symbolic, Mainly symbolic Mainly symbolic iconic, indexical
Sources • Tromsø Museum, University of Tromsø. Image collection object numbers: tslf479, tslf481, tslf535, tslf637, tslf1595, tslp12404, tslp13066. • Kartverket, digital map of Norway. http://kartverket.no/ • Schnitler, Peter. Forslag og Mening om Land-værens Oprætning i Nordlandene etc. etc. Tronhiem, 1746. • Ánde Somby joiking. "Riddu Ri đđ u (8)" by Mates - Own work. Licensed under CC by commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Riddu_Ri đđ u_(8).jpg • Elleström, Lars. “The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations.” In Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality , edited by Lars Elleström, 11–48. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2010. • Eide, Øyvind. Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling : Between Texts and Maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming 2015. Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide
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