Este estudo visa verificar o intervalo formativo entre o comparecimento e a ausência das estratégias de narração nos livros de artista de edição e se e como a narrativa visual é capaz de determinar sua bibliogênese. / This research, As existências da narrativa no livro de artista (“The existences of narrative in the artist’s book”), aims to verify the formative spectrum from attendance to nonappearance of narration strategies into the published artist’s books and if and how the visual narrative is able to determine its bibliogony.

Este estudo visa verificar o intervalo formativo entre o comparecimento e a ausência das estratégias de narração nos livros de artista de edição e se e como a narrativa visual é capaz de determinar sua bibliogênese. / This research, As existências da narrativa no livro de artista (“The existences of narrative in the artist’s book”), aims to verify the formative spectrum from attendance to nonappearance of narration strategies into the published artist’s books and if and how the visual narrative is able to determine its bibliogony.

Este estudo visa verificar o intervalo formativo entre o comparecimento e a ausência das estratégias de narração nos livros de artista de edição e se e como a narrativa visual é capaz de determinar sua bibliogênese. / This research, As existências da narrativa no livro de artista (“The existences of narrative in the artist’s book”), aims to verify the formative spectrum from attendance to nonappearance of narration strategies into the published artist’s books and if and how the visual narrative is able to determine its bibliogony.

[pt] A literatura infantil origina-se de uma tradição oral que, adaptada ao suporte impresso, ganha concretude na forma de texto. A ilustração é incorporada ao texto com o qual estabelece inicialmente uma relação de subordinação. O livro infantil contemporâneo conta histórias, e estas ficções são muito baseadas na informação pictórica, na ilustração. Semelhante constatação nos leva a perguntar qual a função da ilustração no livro infantil contemporâneo e como este se relaciona com o texto. A presente pesquisa procura encontrar parâmetros para análise das diferentes possibilidades de condução da narrativa do livro infantil, efetuada por texto e imagem. Nesta dissertação, a relação entre texto e imagem no livro infantil é abordada de distintas maneiras, e uma tipologia dessa relação narrativa é criada para melhor poder analisá- la. Observa-se que, ao trabalhar de forma narrativa, a ilustração aplicada ao livro infantil tende a compor com o texto um sistema de imbricações recíprocas na construção da narrativa verbo-visual. O modo de leitura do livro infantil contemporâneo se faz distinto em relação aos outros tipos de edições ilustradas. Em suma, vamos analisar como a ilustração - pertencente às artes do espaço - se relaciona com o texto - pertencente às artes do tempo - num contexto narrativo. O estudo dessa relação visa buscar melhor compreensão dos processos de produção, mediação e recepção dos livros infantis, com o objetivo de contribuir para a ampliação do conhecimento do campo do design. / [en] Children literature is a result of oral tradition that came to a material constitution on the print media through text. When illustration got incorporated into text it firstly established a subordinated relationship with it. Children picturebooks tells stories and fiction is based on pictorial information - illustration. This fact questions why there is illustration in the picturebook and what is its relationship with the text. This research develops a parameter for the analysis of possible different ways the narrative is conducted in picturebooks, by image and text. In our study, the relationship between text and image in picturebooks is approached by many different ways and a typology of this relationship is created to help us understand it. When the picture acts in a narrative form it usually combines texts in a mutual signifying system which builds the visual and written storytelling. The children picturebook reading method is different from other types of illustrated editions. This investigation examines how illustration that belongs to space of the arts interacts with text that belongs to time arts, both within the narrative context. The study of this relationship seeks to better understand children s book production, mediation and reception processes, in order to contribute to expanding the knowledge in the design area.

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la narrativa visual en el diseño atmosférico y de personaje en los videojuegos denominados Metroidvania. Así, se planteó la hipótesis que el diseño atmosférico y de personajes apoyan a la narrativa visual en los videojuegos del subgénero de Metroidvania gracias a la inmersión e interacción que se genera por el world narrative. En relación a la metodología, se emplearon fichas documentales para analizar el diseño atmosférico y de personaje de los videojuegos Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest y Guacamelee!. Se examinaron los elementos gráficos del box art de cada videojuego, es decir, la portada que presentan en su empaque; después, tres escenas de distintas áreas que muestran elementos gráficos que aportan a la narrativa visual; y por último, analizar el diseño de personaje de cada videojuego mencionado para identificar sus acciones o reacciones, y cómo apoyan a la inmersión del jugador. Como resultado principal, se tiene que la iluminación y las tonalidades empleadas en cada videojuego apoyan a transportar al jugador hacia un mundo ficcional, además de transmitirles un tono de comunicación específico, ya sea el misterio en Hollow Knight; el misticismo en Ori and the Blind Forest; y el enfoque cultural mexicano en Guacamelee! La investigación concluyó que la exploración e interacción que realizan los jugadores dentro de los espacios lúdicos mencionados se asocian al world narrative, ya que el espacio se encarga de comunicar no solo la ubicación, sino también sensaciones que rodean al personaje en relación al espacio. / The main objective of this investigation is to analyze the visual narrative in the atmospheric and character design of videogames denominated as Metroidvania. In this manner, a hypothesis was created that proposes that atmospheric and character design supports the visual narrative on videogames from the Metroidvania subgenre thanks to the immersion and interaction generated by the world narrative. In relation to the methodology, documental files were implemented to analyze the atmospheric and character design from the following videogames: Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest an Guacamelee!. Also, the graphical elements from the box art were examined from each videogame, then, three scenes from each of this videogames and different areas within them, were also examined to see if they supported the visual narrative. Lastly, analyze the design of each main character from every single one of the selective videogames to be able to identify its actions, reactions and move sets and how they support the players immersion. As a main result, it is understood that illumination and different hues employed help to transport the player into the fictional world, likewise, to transmit a communication tone specific to the game, for example: Mystery in Hollow Knight, mysticism in Ori and the Blind Forest and Mexican culture in Guacamelee! The investigation concluded that the exploration and interaction that players make inside ludic spaces are linked to the world narrative, because the space is in charged of not only the location if not sensations around the character in relation to the space. / Trabajo de investigación

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores an analysis of autobiographical illustration, as it relates directly to autobiographical devices employed in Bitterkomix and my own visual journals. The result is a practitioner-specific approach that frames my own work within a discourse of comics and consequently within the larger discourse of visual narrative. These devices are analysed in the works of artists in Bitterkomix who employ autobiography, not only as a means of effecting more intimate interactions between the reader and the narrative, but also as a form of legitimising narrative. A principal deduction that I have made is that autobiographical writing operates through the filter of memory and language translation. A divergence occurs within Bitterkomix, as well as within my own work, between the artist as himself and the artist as his autobiographical self - the two are never identical. I choose to define autobiographical illustration as an interpretative and experimental visual writing process used to affirm and negate perceived concepts of self through the filters of memory, language translation and imagination. Imagination acts as an extension of current memory from which perceived past, present and future identity constructs emanate and extend. These constructs are by no means indicative of historical fact but often appear to be so given autobiography's association as a referential text. The visual journal as an autobiographical object, like Bitterkomix, seeks to legitimise itself in 'naturalising narrative' by feigning to make it the outcome of a documentative process. It is exactly the tension between autobiography's perceived characteristic as a genre that involves 'real' experiences and its actual function as a narrative construction of identity that merits its use as a strategic device. I argue how my visual journals constitute autobiographical narrative objects and archives of autobiographical illustrative form and content. This tension is amplified in my visual journals in their association as deeply personal objects and as a result of what is perceived to be the artist's natural process. Most importantly, these narrative objects are placed within the public's gaze and are made to be read as autobiographical texts, ultimately as documents of this process. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek outobiografiese illustrasie wat direk verband hou met outobiografiese praktyke wat in Bitterkomix en in my eie visuele joernale gebruik word. Die resultaat is 'n praktisyn-spesifieke aanslag wat my eie werk binne die diskoers van stripkuns plaas, en sodoende binne die groter diskoers van visuele narratief. Hierdie praktyke word geanaliseer in die werk van Bitterkomix-kunstenaars wat outobiografie gebruik, nie net as 'n manier om meer intieme interaksies tussen die leser en die narratief te bewerkstellig nie, maar ook om die narratief legitiem te maak. Ek maak die afleiding dat outobiografiese skryfwerk deur die filters van geheue en taal werksaam is. In beide Bitterkomix en my eie werk is 'n skeiding tussen die kunstenaar self en die kunstenaar se outobiografiese self sigbaar – die twee is nooit identies nie. Ek verkies om outobiografiese illustrasie te definieer as 'n interpretatiewe en eksperimentele visuele skryfproses wat gebruik word om waargenome begrippe van die self deur die filters van geheue, vertaling en verbeelding te bevestig en te negeer. Die verbeelding dien as 'n voortsetting van huidige geheue waaruit waargenome identiteitskonstrukte van die verlede, hede en toekoms voortvloei. Hierdie konstrukte is geensins aanduidend van historiese feite nie, maar kom dikwels so voor gegewe outobiografie se assosiasie as verwysende teks. My argument is dat my visuele joernale beide outobiografiese narratiewe objekte én argiewe van outobiografiese illustratiewe vorm en inhoud is. Visuele joernale as outobiografiese objekte, soos in die geval van Bitterkomix, probeer sigself legitiem maak deur middel van 'naturaliserende narratief', deur voor te gee dat dit die resultaat van 'n dokumenterende proses is. Dit is juis die spanning tussen outobiografie se aard as 'n genre wat gegrond is op 'ware' ervaringe, en outobiografie se funksie as 'n narratiewe konstruksie, wat die gebruik daarvan as 'n strategiese middel die moeite werd maak. Hierdie spanning word in my visuele joernale verhoog deur hulle diep persoonlike aard, en as gevolg van wat gesien word as die kunstenaar se natuurlike proses. Belangriker nog is dat hierdie narratiewe objekte binne die publiek se sigveld geplaas word om as outobiografiese tekste gelees te word, en ook uiteindelik as dokumente van die proses.

A l’occasion de l'analyse de la question des capacités de l’image immobile isolée de « raconter une histoire », l’auteur développe les bases d’une narratologie fondamentale renouvelée, revisite la sémiotique du texte et les théories de l’image et réalise un déplacement méthodologique qui remplace l’approche sémiotique de la question du récit et de la narrativité par une approche en termes d’effets et de réception. La réflexion croise plusieurs disciplines : l’histoire de l’art, la narratologie, la sémiotique, mais aussi la philosophie et l’esthétique. Si l'auteur se propose bien de reconstruire les fondements même de la théorie de la narration visuelle, il ne cherche pas cependant à remplacer les théories existantes par un nouveau paradigme construit ex nihilo. Les bases nouvelles émergent au fil d’un travail sur les théories développées à ce jour ainsi qu'un corpus divers d'images narratives. Les théories critiquées se voient intégrées plutôt que niées dans le déplacement opéré. Pour résoudre le principal problème pour le récit iconique, celui du temps, l'auteur propose une nouvelle conceptualisation de la structure temporelle de l'image fixe unique. Celle-ci prend en compte le temps représenté et la durée perceptive. La dernière partie de l'ouvrage est consacrée à une relecture du Laocoon (1766) de G. E. Lessing, ouvrage largement responsable de la conception actuelle selon laquelle le récit iconique serait impossible. L'auteur montre que le débat autour des thèses de Lessing a été faussé par une confusion entre la question des possibilités/impossibilités de l’image comme telle et celle des « fins propres » de l’image dès lors qu’elle est artistique. / Based on his analysis of the possibility of iconic narrative – « telling a story » with a single still picture – Klaus-Peter Speidel develops a new foundation for visual narratology based on cognitive theory and reception aesthetics. Speidel's work is at the intersection of various disciplines : art history, literary theory, semiotics, philosophy of art and picture theory. While the thesis aims at reconstructing the foundations of a theory of visual narrative, the author does not try to replace the existing approaches with a new theory created ex nihilo. The new foundations emerge from his analysis of existing theories as well as a diverse array of pictures which play an important role in the argument. Classical theories of narrative are absorbed rather than rejected. In order to solve the main problem for visual narrative, the problem of time, the author offers a new conceptualisation of the temporal structure of still images. His taxonomy takes into account both the chronology of the story being told and perception time. The final part of the work offers a reinterpretation of G. E. Lessing's Laocoon (1766) a work that has played a major role for modern scepticism concerning the possibility of telling a story with a picture. The author shows that the discussion around Lessing has been biased by a confusion between the possibilities of the picture as such and the aims of artistic pictures. According to Speidel, Lessing's theory has lost much of its value as a theory of art but is still valuable as a theory for certain kinds of pictures, namely pictures that aim at “transparency”.

Orientador: Sidney Barbosa / Banca: Vera Lúcia Louzada de Mattos Dodebei / Banca: Eliane Serrão Alves Mey / Banca: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Banca: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Resumo: Os fatores que colaboram com o processo de construção do conceito de Natureza têm nas obras literárias e imagéticas informações que refletem o pensamento da sociedade, num tempo e espaço determinados. A partir do entendimento da gênese e do percurso histórico da Ciência da Informação, pode-se identificar a diversidade documental que essa Ciência busca abarcar e explorar como objeto de estudo e de intervenção. Dentro dessa diversidade, percebe-se a complexidade apresentada tanto pela literatura como pela informação imagética, mais especificamente, cartazística, para a área disciplinar de Organização e Representação da Informação e do Conhecimento. Considerando essa complexidade, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo contribuir para a formulação de procedimentos metodológicos, no âmbito da análise de conteúdo de cartazes, tendo em vista a geração de produtos documentais. Tomando-se como base a Teoria de Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, um dos primeiros teóricos da Ciência da Informação no século XX, explora-se uma aproximação teórico-conceitual entre as Categorias Essenciais e os elementos que compõem a estrutura do discurso retórico e as categorias da narrativa literária. Essa opção foi feita, diante da potencialidade que os enunciados literários suscitam em contribuir para um processo de ampliação conceitual das categorias ranganathianas. Nessa aproximação, estabeleceu-se um alinhamento teóricoconceitual capaz de verificar a possibilidade de uma efetiva contribuição de aspectos da Teoria Literária para a realização de análise de conteúdo cartazístico e de sua representação por meio da elaboração de sínteses ou resumos, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação. Faz-se uso dessas categorias ampliadas , para análise do conteúdo apresentado em cada cartaz, pautando-se em procedimentos de leitura do discurso retórico e identificação de... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The factors that contribute to the construction process of the concept of Nature have, in literary and visual works, information that reflects the thinking of society in a given time and space. From the understanding of the genesis and historical trajectory of Information Science, the diversity of documents that this Science seeks to embrace and explore as an object of study can be identified. Within this diversity, the complexity presented by literature as well as by image information and more specifically, posters, for the area of Information and Knowledge Organization and Representation, is perceived. Considering such complexity, this research aims to contribute to the formulation of methodological procedures, in the ambit of content analysis of posters, with an end to the elaboration of document products. Taking as the basis Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan's theory, one of the first theorists in Information Science of the 20th century, a theoretical-conceptual approximation between Essential Categories and the elements that make up the structure of rhetorical discourse and literary narrative categories is explored. This choice was made in the light of the potentiality that literary enunciations engender to contribute to the process of conceptual enlargement of Ranganathan categories. In this approximation, a theoretical-conceptual alignment was established, capable of verifying the possibility of an effective contribution of aspects of Literary Theory to content analysis of posters and of their representation by means of the elaboration of summaries or abstracts, in the ambit of Information Science. Use is made of these enlarged categories for analysis of the content presented in each poster, based on procedures from rhetorical discourse reading and concept identification. In this process, the possibility of considering the denotative, as well as the connotative aspects present ...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor

This study explores Environmental Storytelling techniques and whether these can beused in combination with each other to lead a player through a game scene in aspecific pattern, affect the player’s narrative and exploratory view and explorewhether Self-paced Exploration can be combined with these techniques.It is a qualitative study conducted by six gaming sessions with accompanyinginterviews in which six people get to play one of three versions of the same gamescene. The only differences between the scenes are the different guidance techniquesused. The informants' movement patterns are identified and interviews recorded byaudio, as well as screen recording. The results shows that Environmental Storytellingtechniques can very well be used to control the player's exploration patterns, bothnarratively and navigation purposes and Self-paced Exploration can be utilized to agreater efficiency in combination with these. / Denna studie behandlar Environmental Storytelling -tekniker och huruvida dessa kananvändas i kombination med varandra för att leda en spelare genom en spelscen i ettvisst mönster, påverka spelarens narrativa och utforskande uppfattning samt utforskahuruvida Self-paced Exploration kan kombineras med detta. Det är en kvalitativstudie utförd genom sex enskilda spelsessioner med tillhörande intervjuer där sexpersoner får spela en av tre versioner av samma spelscen. Spelscenernas endaskillnader är de olika vägledningstekniker som används. Informanternasrörelsemönster kartläggs och intervjuerna spelas in genom ljud, såväl somskärminspelning. Resultatet påvisade att Environmental Storytelling -tekniker mycketväl kan användas till att styra spelares utforskningsmönster, både narrativt ochnavigationsmässigt, samt att Self-paced Exploration kan utnyttjas till en störreeffektivitet i kombination med dessa.