Semikolon is a reader, a collection of essays arranged in non-chronological order. All of the texts share a common focus on aspects of the intermedia relationships between web and print media. Each text stands on its own, presenting its own diverse perspective, but can and should nevertheless be read in conjunction with the others. The relationship between analog and digital space—between books and websites—is examined.
The student has identified interfaces and boundaries and examined the extent to which the two media can be combined. Since the web offers the possibility of breaking up the curatorial power of a linear reading direction, she has examined both media in terms of their established structures and inherent hierarchies.
Evelin Dam-Hansen has experimented with this structure and examined the significance of hierarchies when the chronological reading direction is dissolved. It was important to her to emphasize the ambiguity of the texts, to allow them to become fragments in different constellations, and to be able to combine them in multiple ways. The text is no longer bound to the static format that forces the content into a specific form.
She wants to invite readers to read texts only partially or in an intertwined manner, so that they can drift from one thought to the next.