Image&Word

On November 9th Koen Van Synghel will give the first lecture in a new edition of the A-Z lectures. Van Synghel works as an architect, critic and scenographer and was awarded (togehter with Filip De Boeck and Marie-Françoise Plissart) the Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Biennial for architecture.

The lecture begins at 20.00 in the Zebra room at Z33 in Hasselt. The entrance is free, but seat reservation is recommended at www.a-zlezingen.be

Thursday October 28 in the theatre of Namur is an interesting conference on censorship of images:

Politiquement (in)correct ?! Journée d’étude autour de la CENSURE

Image&Word researcher Ann Bessemans presented a paper on legibility and readability at AtypI 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. For all of you who speak a little German there is a report of the AtypI conference including a (short) recount of Bessemans’ paper by Florian Hardwig on MyFonts.de. www.myfonts.de/2010/09/preface It is adorned with one of the lovable (‘liebenswerten’) drawings (this one on typographical preferences) that Bessemans used to illustrate her paper:

België mag dan wel internationaal bekend zijn voor haar stripproductie en illustratiewerk, toch staat deze creatieve sector alsmaar meer onder druk. Tot op heden heeft niemand een precies idee over de actuele sociaaleconomische situatie van de illustrator of stripauteur. Daarom nam het studiebureau van SMartBe het initiatief om een grootschalig onderzoek uit te voeren. Door middel van een online vragenlijst werd bij illustratoren en stripauteurs gepeild naar de belangrijkste pijnpunten bij de uitoefening van hun beroep. Deze enquête richtte zich zowel naar zij die al een lange artistieke carrière achter de rug hebben, als naar debutanten.

DATUM
19 | 11 | 2010
PLAATS
SMartBe, ingang Coenraetsstraat 82, 1060 Brussel

Informatie: http://www.smartbe.be/

Inschrijven bij Quentin de Ghellinck: deq@smartbe.be
deq@smartbe.be – 02/542.19.73

The eighth in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – understood as form miming meaning and form, and meaning miming form and meaning – in language and in literature. It will especially welcome proposals for papers dedicated to the issues of intermediality and multimodality, discussing iconicity mediated by, for instance, different material, sensorial and spatiotemporal modes. Previous symposia have, on the one hand, concentrated on iconicity as a driving force in language on all grammatical levels, on language acquisition, and on language change. On the other hand, they have addressed the various mimetic uses of more concrete and creative iconic images and/or more abstract iconic diagrams and metaphors at all levels of the literary text, in both narrative and poetic forms, and on all varieties of discourse (literary texts, historical texts, political texts, advertising, language and music, word and image, etc.). These possibilities remain open for the 2011 symposium.