#shapereader

[huldrapress]

Ilan Manouach, page from “Shapereader: Arctic Circle”

[merzmensch]

#fbm17: Shapereader. Very interesting tactile genre. Not only for people with visual handicap, but in general a new kind of reading experience - via touching the media. All the ripples and forms you feel deliver neoteric tactile storytelling. Even if this kind of experience isn't novative at all and belongs to humans most basic way of perception. #fbmmm #shapereader (hier: Frankfurter Buchmesse)

[samsons-ribs]

Shapereader Prints - Collaborative textural text based pieces made between visual and visually impaired artists - - A tactile Language. 

[toseethesummersky]

Ilan Manouach, “Shapereader: Arctic Circle” (2016)

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[garadinervi]

Le graphisme tactile de Shapereader pour les personnes malvoyantes, «étapes:», 11.07.2016

/ Shapereader / Ilan Manouach /

[moccafestnyc]

MoCCA 2015 Programming Spotlight

"Comics and Disability" Sunday, April 12 at the High Line Hotel 3:30 pm in the Rusack Room

The rise of disability studies has prompted a non-hierarchical reconsideration of disability. In parallel, the emergence of “outsider art” has enlarged aesthetic possibilities within art, but not without introducing new category problems. This panel will trace emerging points of engagement between these issues and comics. Ilan Manouach will discuss Shapereader, his innovative 57-plate graphic novel for the blind. Anne-Françoise Rouche is the director of La “S” Grand Atelier in Vielsalm, Belgium, an arts center for persons with mental disabilities that organizes collaborations with contemporary artists. Frémok artist DoubleBob, who has participated in these projects, will join the discussion. Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos.

All programming events will take place at the High Line Hotel, steps away from our main Festival venue at Center 548. Access to programming on a daily basis is included with the price of admission to the MoCCA Arts Festival. Admission to MoCCA costs $5 per day. To be admitted to programming, attendees must display proof of ticket purchase for that day to the Fest. MoCCA Arts Festival tickets are available online now or at the door at Center 548 the weekend of the Fest, and on-site at The High Line Hotel during programming hours.

See full programming schedule for MoCCA Arts Festival 2015

[50watts]

Shapereader and Ilan Manouach (A guest post by Bill Kartalopoulos; Shapereader is “a system of forms developed to produce comics for the blind and visually impaired.”)

[lambandlamp]

Shapereader comprises a series of graphic patterns attempting to encode words and meanings into tactile formations. Arctic Circle, the first narrative work to use the Shapereader repertoire is a 57-page original graphic novel relating the story of two climatologists digging in the North Pole searching for patterns of climatic change inscribed on ice columns. Two versions of the story are available, in English and in Finnish. It consists of:

57 wooden plates (50cm x 35cm x 0.6cm)

6 communication boards (50cm x 35cm x 0.6cm)

210 patterns from the Shapereader tactile repertoire and more than 6000 patterns for the entirety of the story

weights a total of 95 kg.

Shapereader is developed by Ilan Manouach. More info about the project and Shapereader Community Workshop can be found at shapereader.org. Website by Lamb and Lamp.