[ISEA2015] Paper: Leslie Nobler – The Scroll Unfurled: Ancient to “Vanguard”

Abstract (Short paper)

Keywords: Text, Scroll, Book, E-book, Digital Art, Artist’s Books, Textile

An historical understanding of the scroll is useful for creating within new textual genres. Books and text art-forms are destabilizing, energizing future possibilities. Yet we must look backward to the reasons this first information technology existed, as I do in my digital scrolls that report, communicate, purge, and narrate. In light of our changing “book landscape,” we combine heirlooms, maps and artifacts with rounded and striped visual structures expressing the rich aesthetic of a fading old (slow) format. Where will the new and fast electronic formats lead our culture?

  • Leslie C. Nobler, William Paterson University New Jersey, USA. Leslie is a digital artist, creating artist’s books, surface design, and monoprints. Her recent work reinvents sacred books and ritual artifacts using alternative digital printmaking. Exhibitions internationally include New Jersey State, Noyes and Montclair Art Museums (NJ), OldMain Art Museum (AZ), Athenaeum Museum (PA), Kemper Museum of Art (MO), Afrigraphics Pretoria, and Digital Art Awards/ Australia and China. Nobler has had multiple inclusions in SIGGRAPH Art Galleries. She is an Art Professor at William Paterson University (NJ) and curator/ lecturer at universities, museums and alternative spaces. Her work is represented internationally in museum and university art/book collections, such as Sheffield University, UK. A recipient of Surface Design Association and Puffin Artist’s Grants, among others, she earned her BFA at University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art, MA at New York Institute of Technology and MFA at City University of New York, Hunter College.

Full Text (PDF)  p. 197-200