After Neurath Symposium. Day 1.
The project 'After Neurath' will kick off with a public
symposium in which Otto Neurath's history and contemporary relevance will be discussed.
Speakers include: Frank Hartmann, Robin Kinross,
Kristóf Nyíri and Femke Snelting.
Program
10 am
introduction
11 am
Frank Hartmann "The quest for an 'inclusive form of the icon' - analogue to digital visualisation"
12 noon
Kristóf Nyíri "The Isotype and its Precursors"
1 pm
Lunchtime
2 pm
Robin Kinross "Isotype work as design work"
3 pm
Femke Snelting "Corset/Skin/Skeleton"
4 pm
Q & A
Followed by a buffet/dinner in the company of the speakers.
More information on the speakers:
Frank Hartmann's talk will be entitled "The quest for an ‘inclusive form of the icon' - analogue to digital visualization." Frank Hartmann studied history of art, sociology, journalism and
philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he took his PhD
in philosophy and his postdoctoral teaching qualification
(Habilitation) in communications and media theory. He is currently
teaching media philosophy and multimedia journalism at the University
of Vienna. Other professional activities include media consulting and
features writings. Author of several books on media philosophy, he also
maintains the websites www.medienphilosophie.net and www.neurath.at.
The text of Frank Hartmann's lecture can be found in the After Neurath web dossier.
Robin Kinross' talk is entitled 'Isotype work as design work'. Robin Kinross is an editor and writer. After graduation from the
Department of Typography, University of Reading, he wrote an MPhil
thesis on Otto Neurath and Isotype (1979). This led among, other
things, to working with Rudolf Haller on an edition of Neurath's
Gesammelte bildpädogogische Schriften (1991). In 1980 he started the
publishing imprint Hyphen Press, with a new edition of Norman Potter's
What is a designer. Hyphen Press now publishes a range of titles on
typography and design, including books by Fred Smeijers, Christopher
Burke, Harry Carter, Gerrit Noordzij, Karel Martens, and Jost Hochuli.
His own books are Modern typography (1992, 2004), Anthony Froshaug
(2000) and Unjustified texts (2002).
www.hyphenpress.co.uk
Femke Snelting's talk is entitled 'Corset / Skin / Skeleton'.
She will speak about ways data, imagery and software grow
together and what that might mean for the design of information. Femke
Snelting is a graphic designer and artist working mainly on and for the
web. With the Brussels' arts and media organisation Constant she
develops projects at the intersection of feminism and free- and open
source software. Together with Renee Turner and Riek Sijbring she forms
De Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research). De Geuzen deploys a
variety of strategies both on- and offline to explore their interests
in female identity, critical resistance, representation, and narrative
archiving. See: www.geuzen.org
Kristóf Nyíri is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Nyíri will give particular attention to the history of systems of the
organisation that preceded Isotype and which had an abiding influence
on Neurath's work. These are the encyclopedia projects devised during
the enlightenment that attempted to unify knowledge scientifically
through the use of a combination of words and pictures. We will see
that such systems did not only leave an impression on Neurath, but also
have a bearing on how we read and understand information and knowledge
systems today.
WHEN MAKING RESERVATIONS PLEASE STATE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE LUNCH AND DINNER/BUFFET ARRANGEMENT.
- Tuesday 31 Oct '06 10 am - 4.30 pm
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free (lunch on both days and dinner/buffet on day 1: € 20,-)