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'''Ilan Manouach''' (1980, Athens) is a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist work­ing with exper­i­men­tal and con­cep­tual comics. Since 2003 he has pub­lished more than a dozen book works and has curated four antholo­gies bring­ing together con­tri­bu­tions from artists, crit­ics, lawyers and dif­fer­ent pro­fes­sion­als of the book indus­try. Addi­tion­ally, he is a book pub­lisher, musi­cal com­poser, and per­former. His the­o­ret­i­cal research, con­ducted at the MA pro­gram of the Dutch Art Insti­tute, Arnhem, artic­u­lates a pro­posal for an unac­knowl­edged doc­u­men­ta­tion of con­cep­tual comics. The unlo­cat­ed­ness in the medium’s spec­trum is more than an abstrac­tion: works oper­ate on the mar­gins of dis­tri­b­u­tion and recep­tion, artists uncom­fort­able with the entrenched roles per­form under mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties and capac­i­ties and read­ers, in the absence of crit­i­cal dis­course engage with the works in foren­sic, at times non­spec­i­fied, ways of exam­i­na­tion. His the­sis (2017), and the upcom­ing anthol­ogy, result­ing from a two-year long research at the DAI, pro­vides the res­onat­ing cham­ber for these works, and a spring­board for estab­lish­ing the con­di­tions for an affec­tive lin­eage between sim­i­larly minded prac­ti­tion­ers. He is cur­rently a Ph.D. can­di­date in the New Media Depart­ment of the Aalto Uni­ver­sity of Helsinki. He lives between [[Brussels]], [[Helsinki]] and [[Athens]].
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'''Ilan Manouach''' (1980, Athens) is a researcher, a book publisher and a multidisciplinary artist with a specific interest in [[conceptual comics]] and post-digital comics. His work claims for the importance of comics as a materially self-reflexive medium, unaffiliated to any general art history. He currently holds a PhD researcher position at the Aalto University in Helsinki (adv. [[Craig Dworkin]]) where he examines how this century’s frontier technologies such as AI, financial technologies and globalized logistics reshape the comics industry. He is mostly known for Shapereader, a system for tactile storytelling specifically designed for blind and partially sighted readers/makers of comics. For a fuller documentation on the above projects, the Brussels-based non-profit Echo Chamber is responsible for producing, fundraising, documenting and archiving Manouach’s work and research on contemporary comics, that has been presented in solo exhibitions to festivals, museums and galleries worldwide. On the side he is a curator of conceptual comics for shadow libraries [[UbuWeb]] and Monoskop, and he is an Onassis Digital Fellow, a Kone alumnus and works as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation and its visibility through its newly funded publishing activity. The topics of his research and artistic practice include conceptual comics, post-internet publishing, and synthetic media and AI. The Comics Journal called him “one of the most critical contemporary cartoonists and thinkers working today” and Kenneth Goldsmith described him as “the most provocative, critical, and intelligent comic artist alive”.
  
 
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* [http://ilanmanouach.com/ Home page]
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* [http://www.ilanmanouach.com/ Home page]
 
* [http://ubu.com/contemp/manouach/ Works on UbuWeb]
 
* [http://ubu.com/contemp/manouach/ Works on UbuWeb]
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* [https://www.echochamber.be Echo Chamber]
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* [http://www.shapereader.org/ Shapereader]
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* [http://www.topovoros.gr/ Topovoros Books]
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* [http://www.futuresofcomics.org/ Futures of Comics Symposium]
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Manouach Wikipedia]

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Ilan Manouach (1980, Athens) is a researcher, a book publisher and a multidisciplinary artist with a specific interest in conceptual comics and post-digital comics. His work claims for the importance of comics as a materially self-reflexive medium, unaffiliated to any general art history. He currently holds a PhD researcher position at the Aalto University in Helsinki (adv. Craig Dworkin) where he examines how this century’s frontier technologies such as AI, financial technologies and globalized logistics reshape the comics industry. He is mostly known for Shapereader, a system for tactile storytelling specifically designed for blind and partially sighted readers/makers of comics. For a fuller documentation on the above projects, the Brussels-based non-profit Echo Chamber is responsible for producing, fundraising, documenting and archiving Manouach’s work and research on contemporary comics, that has been presented in solo exhibitions to festivals, museums and galleries worldwide. On the side he is a curator of conceptual comics for shadow libraries UbuWeb and Monoskop, and he is an Onassis Digital Fellow, a Kone alumnus and works as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation and its visibility through its newly funded publishing activity. The topics of his research and artistic practice include conceptual comics, post-internet publishing, and synthetic media and AI. The Comics Journal called him “one of the most critical contemporary cartoonists and thinkers working today” and Kenneth Goldsmith described him as “the most provocative, critical, and intelligent comic artist alive”.

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