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SUMMARY:Poetry & Money: A Speculation
DESCRIPTION:Professor Peter Robinson\, Department of English Literature\, University of Reading \nThis event is free and open to all. This research seminar will be a hybrid event\, taking place on the University of Reading campus\, Palmer Building Room G02 and online. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-money-a-speculation-tickets-228788541687 \nPoetry & Money: A Speculation (Liverpool University Press\, 2020) is a study of relationships between poets\, poetry\, and money from Chaucer to contemporary times. It explores how trust is essential to the creation of value in human exchange\, and how money can\, depending on conditions\, both enable and disable trustfully collaborative generations of value. Drawing upon a vast range of poetry for its exemplifications\, the book includes studies of poetic hardship\, religious verse and debt redeeming\, the economic revolution\, debates over metallic and paper currency in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, as well as modernist struggles with the gold standard\, depression\, inflation\, and the realised groundlessness of exchange value.  \nFor his presentation of work from this book\, Peter Robinson will concentrate on two sections inspired by materials held in Special Collections at the University of Reading\, namely documents connected with the publication of Translations from the Night by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo in the Heinemann African Writers series\, and an anonymous Jacobite Ode on the South Sea Bubble. \nPeter Robinson was born in Salford\, Lancashire\, in 1953\, and grew up mainly in Liverpool. He holds degrees from the universities of York and Cambridge. Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press\, he is the author of many books\, especially of poetry and translation\, for some of which he has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize\, the John Florio Prize\, and two Poetry Book Society Recommendations. \nThis research seminar will be a hybrid event\, taking place online and on the University of Reading campus\, room G02\, Palmer Building http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/maps/whiteknights-campus-map.pdf (Building number 26 on this map).
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SUMMARY:Experimental publishing and new archival initiatives
DESCRIPTION:Experimental publishing and new archival initiatives \nThis online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experimental-publishing-and-new-archival-initiatives-tickets-228856103767 \nThis panel is the second in a series of events\, which draw on historical as well as contemporary references to examine experimental publishing through a range of perspectives\, spanning the fields of art\, communication design\, digital media and software development. This event looks specifically at the ways in which archival initiatives in experimental\, grassroots publishing have extended relationships between social and media environments over the past decade. Looking at three specific practitioner-led case studies\, the presentations and the subsequent Q&A will consider the breakdown of strict boundaries between activities of publishing and archiving\, enabled through the development of new forms of networked\, social interactions\, and the hybridization of digital and analog contexts. In particular\, these case studies will point to convergences between technical and social phenomena which have challenged the status-quo and offered new imaginaries through the availability of cheap and accessible technologies (both hardware and software) to design\, produce\, distribute and simultaneously archive publications; significant developments in the open source software movement; and the cross-reference to specific ideas from feminist and queer cultural theory\, as well as cyberfeminism. This event will contribute to the overall aims of the Experimental Publishing series by highlighting again the importance of new\, cross-disciplinary vocabularies to enter traditional discourses in order to adequately further scholarship around experimental and grassroots practices in the publishing field. \nConvened by Ruth Blacksell and Lozana Rossenova with contributions from Simon Browne\, Ami Clarke and Mindy Seu. The case study presentations include The Bootleg Library\, the Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing\, and The Cyberfeminism Index. \nDr Ruth Blacksell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. She leads the Book Design Pathway for the Department’s MA in Communication Design. Her PhD (2013) at the University of Sheffield’s School of Architecture was supported by a concordat scholarship with the British Library and she recently established a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the University of Reading and Tate Library. Much of her research to date has been concerned with typographic engagements and acts of publishing in post-1960s art and the emergence of a contemporary inter-disciplinary territory which\, following this historical and theoretical lineage\, utilises and exploits the vocabularies and contexts of both art and editorial design. \nSimon Browne is an artist\, researcher and self-proclaimed “contingent librarian”\, convenient shorthand for an ever-expanding list of actions he performs in his practice. Simon is the initiator of the “bootleg library”\, a digital/physical/social collection of texts and the readers collected around them. His work engages with the social dimension of publishing\, free software and infrastructure that supports interpersonal knowledge-sharing networks. He lives and works in Rotterdam\, where he is active as a member of Varia\, a collective-space for everyday technology. \nAmi Clarke is an artist working within the emergent behaviours that come off the complex protocols of platform capitalism in everyday assemblages\, with a focus on the inter-dependencies between code and language in hyper-networked culture. She is interested in acknowledging\, and thinking through\, the complexities of the subject emerging in synthesis with their environment\, from a critical intersectional position. She is also founder of Banner Repeater; a reading room with a public Archive of Artists’ Publishing and project space on a working train station platform at Hackney Downs station\, London. She is also the initiator and artistic director of the Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing\, an online platform that seeks to connect publications and artists across collections. \nLozana Rossenova is a digital designer and researcher. She holds an MA from the Department for Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading\, where she was a Sessional Lecturer in hybrid and digital publication between 2016–2021. In 2021\, she completed a PhD at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (London South Bank University) in collaboration with Rhizome\, a leading international born-digital art organisation. Her research focuses on open-source and community-driven approaches to digital infrastructures\, which organise\, store and make knowledge\, and different ways of knowing\, accessible. \nMindy Seu is a designer and researcher currently writing the manuscript for the Cyberfeminism Index\, to be released by Inventory Press in Fall 2022. She holds an M.Des from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from University of California\, Los Angeles. Seu is currently an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art. \nCredits: The image background uses a source photo from the Banner Repeater instagram account.
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SUMMARY:Ed Fella: Exit Level Design\, 1985–2012
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition:  Ed Fella: Exit Level Design\, 1985–2012 curated by Rick Poynor. Monday 31 January – Friday 25 March 2022\, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, ToB2\, Earley Gate.  \n The American graphic designer Edward Fella’s career divides into two complementary phases. For 30 years\, Fella (born 1938) worked as a designer\, commercial artist and illustrator in Detroit\, Michigan. In his late 40s\, hoping to teach\, he gained a first degree in graphic design and studied for an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art\, then a centre of theoretical thinking and experimental graphic practice. In the second phase of his career – the focus of this exhibition – Fella became\, as he put it\, an “exit level designer”\, leaving clients and commissions behind to teach at California Institute of the Arts and pursue a freewheeling investigation of form unique in contemporary graphic design. After years of professional studio experience\, Fella was a master of diverse graphic styles and hand-lettering. Work that might at first glance seem neglectful of design’s cardinal “rules” came from a deep well of knowledge. He created flyers for lectures by himself and other designers that are loaded with allusions. In his sketchbooks\, he produced a daily stream of collages and drawings best understood as art about design. In his 50s\, Fella became internationally famous for a self-motivated body of work that overflows with invention and surprise. \nCredit: Flyer designed by Ed Fella
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