Comics for University Nerds! How to make your own comics using digital productivity tools

In this workshop you will be invited to use your existing tools and methods- the bleak spreadsheets, abandoned flickr accounts, the rogue JSON and XML files or Obsidian notes and logs – to explore hidden narrative and visualization potentials. Your final product will be a work of multimodal articulation, more than just an artistic production but a means to disseminate new forms of knowledge that can be helpful for your individual research tracks. No prior drawing experience required, only bring your own data (BYOD) and LAPTOP!

The workshop will be led by CDHU Visiting Researcher, Ilan Manouach (https://ilanmanouach.com/).

Ilan Manouach is a comics artist and a postdoctoral scholar on "Computational Creativity" at the University of Liège. He is also an affiliate scholar at Harvard metaLAB, a member of Racliffe’s Institute for Climate Sound & Society, and an affiliate researcher at Paris VIII with Labo Paragraph. He is the author of over 25 comic books and the editor of Chimeras. Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, a collective glossary on AI, with 150 contributors exploring a variety of epistemic perspectives on artificial intelligence: interspecies, crip, monstrous, feminist, distributed, and decolonial, among others. He is an appointed expert on the comic book industry to the Belgian government and worked as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation. He is the founder of Echo Chamber a non-profit organization dedicated to comics research (part of the Creative Europe consortium of Expanded publishing), and the founder of Topovoros Books, a Greek publishing house spearheading translations of cornerstone essays in humanities. He is the creator of Shapereader (2014-), a system of tactile comics for people with visual disabilities and the co-creator of the first algorithmic cartoon generator, The Neural Yorker (2019-2023). His work is the subject of a dedicated Routledge critical anthology and his latest book, Out Side, is a collaboration with K Allado-McDowell, founder of Google’s AMI program.

The workshop will break for lunch at kl.12 (on your own cost), and will provide an afternoon fika; please indicate any allergies in your registration.