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The Afterlife of Printing: Looking at the Past as Letterpress Makes a Comeback
NZ’s Print History | ka mua, ka muri: resetting the archive
Makyla Curtis
Academic, Artist, Student, Letterpress Printer, Academic, Artist, Student, Letterpress Printer
Auckland University of Technology & Museum of Transport and Technology
Makyla Curtis is a Visual Arts post-graduate student at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Makyla has a Master of Arts with first class honours in English Literature from the University of Auckland. She is also studying towards a diploma in languages in te reo Māori. Makyla is a letterpress printer and a volunteer in the print section at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Search after the Life Cycle of the 19th century Hoffman-Tetterode Chinese printing type collection
Ronald Steur
Printmaker, Academic, Curator, Type Caster
Typefoundry Westzaan/Stichting Lettergieten 1983
Ronald Steur(1942) born in the Netherlands as son of a printer. As boy of five he got familiar with lead types and letterpress. Got involved in the family printingshop but studied Ecomics and worked for the dutch government and some years at the U.N. in Vienna. Already in the seventies he started his private press and after his retirement in 2005 he got involved in a museum typefoundry in Westzaan. During many years he got more and more interested in storirs of the past of type development and typecasting. And so he got the question from publishing house Brill about what happened with the chinese that had been cast in Amsterdam in the 19th century. My lecture will be a report of the nearly three year search.
East Meets West: Printed and Bound Objects as Tangible Evidence of The Evolution of The Hybrid Culture of Hong Kong
Emma Lau
Student, Book Conservator
West Dean College
Emma is a book conservator based in Hong Kong. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from York University, Canada and is a current candidate in MA Conservation Studies at West Dean College, England. Emma worked at M+ Museum and the Tung Wah Museum Archives. She also works as an educator for which she shares her experience and knowledge in printmaking and bookbinding.
Casting new type: Showcasing the history of printing in the British Library's Writing Exhibition
Michael Erdman
Curator
British Library
Dr. Michael Erdman is one of the Curators of the exhibition Writing: Making Your Mark at the British Library, where he also manages the Turkish and Turkic Collections. He was awarded the title of PhD at SOAS in 2018, and specialises in the study of 20th century Turkish and Central Asian historiography. Prior to joining the British Library, Dr. Erdman worked for the Global Affairs Canada as a Management Consular Officer. He occupied diplomatic positions in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Spain, Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama.
- WELCOMING & KEYNOTE SPEECH
- WELCOMING & KEYNOTE SPEECH
- WELCOMING & KEYNOTE SPEECH