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SUMMARY:Researching the history of printing in Iran: particularities and challenges
DESCRIPTION:Dr Borna Izadpanah\, Department of Typography\, University of Reading \nThis event organised by the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is free and open to all. This research seminar will be a hybrid event\, taking place on the University of Reading campus\, Typography Department\, Room A6\, and online. \nPlease register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researching-the-history-of-printing-in-iran-particularities-and-challenges-tickets-242664866147  \nThis seminar introduces some of the particularities and challenges that Borna’s recently completed PhD research faced in developing the chapter that deals with the introduction of Arabic-script printing to nineteenth-century Iran. One of the significant aspects of Arabic-script metal types produced in Iran is their extremely minimal use. This is also true of the number of surviving copies of the early Persian publications in Iran which were printed with those types. For example\, the first Qurʾān printed with both typography (1827) and lithography (1834) are limited to two identified copies. Additionally\, the condition of extant copies of books printed in Iran during this period are often extremely poor and\, in many cases\, incomplete. \nThis presentation demonstrates Borna’s experience of investigating the early Persian publications in Iran\, which shows that many of these publications have yet to be identified. As will be shown\, the discovery of previously unknown publications in libraries or private collections – which is not an infrequent occurrence – often overturns the received history of printing in Iran. \nBorna Izadpanah is a typeface designer and researcher based in London. He holds a PhD in Typography & Graphic Communication from the University of Reading\, where he also graduated with an MA in Typeface Design. His doctoral research explored the history of the early typographic representation of the Persian language. Borna has received numerous prestigious awards for his research and typeface design including the Grand Prize and the First Prize in Arabic Text Typeface in Granshan Type Design Competition\, TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence\, and the Symposia Iranica Prize for the best paper in Art History. \nThis research seminar will be a hybrid event\, taking place online and on the University of Reading campus\, Room A6\, Typography Department http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/maps/whiteknights-campus-map.pdf (Building number 21 on this map). \nFor details of further CBCP events\, please see the events schedule.
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CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Dwoskino: The Sun and the Moon + intro by writer Paul Clinton
DESCRIPTION:Part of Experimenta focus: Stephen Dwoskin\, a series of film screenings and talks at the BFI Southbank from 1-24 February \nThe Sun and the Moon + intro by writer Paul Clinton\nThursday 24 February 2022 18:20 NFT3 \nStephen Dwoskin’s late masterpiece is distantly inspired by the Beauty and the Beast tale. \n\n\nDirector – Stephen Dwoskin\nWith Beatrice Cordua\, Stephen Dwoskin\, Helga Wretman\nUK 2008. 59min. Digital\n\n\n\nDwoskin began as an underground filmmaker\, and ended his career as one. Distantly inspired by Beauty and the Beast\, The Sun and the Moon features Dwoskin as the Beast\, all but confined to his bed and hooked up to a breathing machine\, opposite performance artist and stunt performer Helga Wretman\, and dancer Beatrice ‘Trixie’ Cordua (Dwoskin’s muse of many years). The high point of Dwoskin’s late period\, the film was described by scholar Raymond Bellour as an ‘absolute masterpiece’. \n+ Me Myself and I \n\n\n\nUK 1968. Stephen Dwoskin. 18min Digital 4K \n\n\nBuy tickets from BFI Southbank \n\nExperimenta focus: Stephen Dwoskin season\nA unique and challenging filmmaker whose themes include disability\, sexuality\, diaspora\, and memory. \nStephen Dwoskin arrived in London from New York in 1964\, aged 25\, with a trunk of 16mm films shot in the milieu of Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas. He became known for a series of films in which the camera’s unblinking gaze is returned by his female subjects. Laura Mulvey wrote that he ‘opened a completely new perspective for me on cinematic voyeurism’. In the mid-70s\, Dwoskin turned his gaze on his own body\, disabled in childhood by polio\, before making a number of personal documentaries about disability and diaspora. In the 2000s\, with his mobility severely impaired\, he embraced the possibilities of digital technology to return to the underground and the erotic obsessions that powered his extraordinary 50-year career. \nRachel Garfield and Henry K Miller\, co-programmers \nFor details of the entire programme\, please visit the Experimenta focus: Stephen Dwoskin page. \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/dwoskino-the-sun-and-the-moon-intro-by-writer-paul-clinton/
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