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Ilan Manouach
Ilan Manouach (Athens, 1980) is an artist with a specific interest in conceptual and post-digital comics and is also active as a music performer, composer and a book publisher and has produced a few commissions for newspapers such as The New York Times and :it:Internazionale (periodico). He currently holds a PhD researcher position at the New Media Programme of the Aalto University in Helsinki (adv. Craig Dworkin) where he examines the intersections of contemporary comics, art and poetry. His work and research claims for the importance of comics as a materially self-reflexive medium, unaffiliated to any general art history. He has more than twenty published books, most of them published in the catalog of :fr:La Cinquième Couche, and he has also produced solo exhibitions to important comics festivals, museums and galleries worldwide. His work has been written about in Hyperallergic, The Cut, World Literature Today, Wired, Le Monde, The Comics Journal, du9, 50 watts, Kenneth Goldsm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
