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tjerk timan
Currently pursuing a PhD in STS and user studies at the University of Twente, where the main question is how new mobile media are affecting the way we act in and think about our public space.
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Noam Knoller
Film maker Interaction Designer Emotion simulator PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam (ASCA)
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Anne Helmond
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Casey Reas
Processing...
Casey Reas and Ben Fry initiated Processing.org in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. In September 2007, they...
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Lara Assouad Khoury
Arab type and graphic designer
Lara Assouad Khoury was born in Montreal, Canada and graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor in Graphic Design degree (BGD) in 1998. She worked as a designer at LeoBurnett...
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Sabine Niederer
PhD student at UvA Mediastudies (www.mediastudies.nl) manager of the Institute of Network Cultures (www.networkcultures.org), researcher-analyst at the Digital Methods Initiative ( dmi.mediastudies.
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Belinda Mulder
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Nadine Touma
Artist, writer, and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut
She has created numerous installations, literary works, and artworks addressing issues that range from human rights to hymenoplasty. Touma has participated in exhibitions in Lebanon, Egypt, and...
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Brody Neuenschwander
Calligrapher and visual artist
Brody Neuenschwander is a calligrapher and text artist working in a variety of media. He has studied Arabic and Japanese calligraphy in order to create a new form of western calligraphy. He has...
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Khaled Ramadan
Born in Beirut in 1965, he is a curator, video documentary maker and a lecturer in new media aesthetics. His fields of specialties are visual culture aesthetics, multi-media studies and the history...
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Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is an editor and journalist covering the culture and politics of the Middle East. She has co-edited Creating Spaces of Freedom; Culture in Defiance (2002), Kaveh Golestan: Recording the...
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Maarten Steenhagen
"You might consider writing a short description about yourself."
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The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing…
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.
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The Typographic Landscapes of the Arab World
Research on Aesthetic Trends and Legibility
Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of selected current practices in Arabic type design, corporate identities
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Writing From The Margins
Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography
Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers
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The Enchanted Canary*
Contemporary Arabic Children's Books
'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?' 'I will tell you,' answered Désiré, 'though most likely you will laugh at me. I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was...
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In defence of a remarkable exhibition
The Spirit & Life exhibition
It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic cliché exhibition". In the first place it is not, and nowhere claims to be
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Lana Daher
مهما كان الثمن
Lana Daher was born in 1983 in Minneapolis, U.S.A. She now lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon. In June 2006, she obtained a BFA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut. Since then
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animation film Edo Smitshuijzen
Persepolis, story of an Iranian childhood
An animated biography of an Iranian woman
Sometimes the story about important developments in the Arab world are best told by reports about personal experiences. And sometimes the narrative can be more poignant when represented in a simple...
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conference program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…
Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.
The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...
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Symposium Program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...
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San Francisco, USA
The Singularity Summit 2007
8Sep 2007- How close is AI?9Sep 2007In recent years, several scientists and authors have argued that there is a significant chance that advanced artificial intelligence will be developed within a few decades. Similar claims, however
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Festival: Radialsystem V.
Wir nennen es Arbeit
23Aug 2007- The new digital bohemians. Work the Way you want to live25Aug 2007Briefly, the festival is a fair for people who wouldn’t attend fairs. A platform of self-organisation, interactive crossover formats and networks for people who would like to work the way they’d like...
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Minke Kampman
korte inleiding,