Symposium Program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA)
Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp.
We'll have lunch at the 8th floor restaurant with an amazing view over Amsterdam.
At 17:00 we'll wrap up and move to the next-door PostCS building where we'll celebrate the opening of El HEMA at Mediamatic!
Image from the publication “The secret Life of Syrian lingerie: Intimacy and Design”. This book will be published by the book will be published by Chronicle Books in autumn 2008. Photo by Omar al-Moutem.
Fedra Arabic by Tarek Atrissi and Peter Bilak next to Fedra Roman by Peter Bilak -
Detail of Fedra's pages from the Typographic Matchmaking book. Illustration by Huda AbiFarès.
Poster by Koeweiden Postma.
Still from Khaled Ramadan’s video 'Wide Power' 2006.
Designed by Wael Morcos based on the Old School logo by Tarek Atrissi and Huda AbiFarès. The font is TheMix Arabic.
Sanaa, where Jelle van der Toorn Vrijthof worked on the museum in Yemen.
Spontaneous calligraphy demo -
Spontaneous calligraphy demo by Brody Neuenschwander during lunch break at the the Kitabat conference. Dubai 2006.
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Cultural Survival Kits and Other Practical Ideas
24 Aug 2007
10:10
Cultural survival kits… it would be real nice if we had ready-made ones to give out at the ...
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Visiting Shiba
the National Museum of Yemen
24 Aug 2007
10:50
The National Museum of Yemen in the capital city of Sana’a was neglected when I arrived in ...
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The Clash of Motion Picture
a Concise Look Back
24 Aug 2007
Talk and short video screening by Khaled D. Ramadan. Planet of the Arabs by video maker Jacki ...
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Marhaba
In Search for a Hybrid Visual Language
24 Aug 2007
13:10
The Dutch government stimulates contact between groups of different backgrounds by establishing ...
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From Amulet to Art Nouveau
a Thousand Years of Arab-European Exchange in Printing and Book Design
24 Aug 2007
13:50
The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of ...
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The Enchanted Canary*
Contemporary Arabic Children's Books
24 Aug 2007
14:40
'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?' 'I will tell you,' ...
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The Current Market for Arabic Fonts
Recent Developments and Consumer Needs
24 Aug 2007
15:20
The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly ...
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The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing Dual-Script Fonts
24 Aug 2007
16:10
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard ...
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event: Amsterdam, Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
El HEMA is a non-commercial cultural project by the Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam.
24 Aug 2007 – 6 Jan 2008
17:00
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high ...
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Google in Arabia: Introducing the Khatt Network for Arabic typography
24 Aug 2007
10:30
Movable type was the the new media of the 15th century. In Europe many rulers felt threatened by ...
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Dangerous Lingerie and Other Mid East Street Stories that Spook the West
22 Aug 2007
The Arab street – its vibrancy, innovativeness, traditions of design and contemporary ...
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On Activism, Design and Politics in the Arab World
the Case of Visual Culture in Beirut
24 Aug 2007
12:00
Politics, in the form of contemporary cultural resistance projects and in the history of Arab ...
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Unfamiliar Territories, Arabic Type and Modern Dance
24 Aug 2007
Peter Bilak will speak about methodologies of approaching unfamiliar areas of work.
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Interface, Expressive Western and Arabic Calligraphy in Dialogue
24 Aug 2007
14:20
For nearly twenty years, Brody Neuenschwander has worked with the British film maker Peter ...
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Writing From The Margins
Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography
24 Aug 2007
Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, ...
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The Typographic Landscapes of the Arab World
Research on Aesthetic Trends and Legibility
24 Aug 2007
15:40
Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab ...
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Book: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.
As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes ...
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conference program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium program
Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.
The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going ...