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Salaam all, I know my absence has been longer than I intended but I had extremely full two months. Just returned from a conference that I was invited to present at "Manchester Metropolitan University".
It was an interesting experience and was well arranged.
The objective for the conference was described as :
" We focus widely on illustration’s primary intentions: the visualisation of concepts, poetic and rhetoric expression, the elaborative encoding of information and memory through analogy, metaphor and marginalia. This conference intends to explore the synergy between word and image, word as image, the subversive interrogation of text, and the telling of stories through imagery.Illustration and Writing looks at illustration as visual language, and reflects on the role of the image within, around and in place of writing. We hope to explore the ways that purposeful images can augment, clarify or problematise meaning in relation to text".
You can check out abstracts for the papers presented here:
It was a brilliant experience as I had the opportunity to meet a blend of artists' , illustrators, designers and typographers from across Europe, Middle east and South Asia. Meeting so many researchers from different but connected disciplines, and discussing and connecting our individual researches broadened ideas and knowledge for each one of us I am sure. It was amazing to see common directions and connections with different disciplines within the context of my research.
My paper presentation titled 'Visual reflections' talked about Pakistani Lollywood Billboards and their interpretation, generating a narrative based on knowledge that has connections with allegory and interpretation of meaning. I shall be uploading the paper as soon as I get some breathing time.
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ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read your paper. So proud of you Bubu :)
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