ATypI conference 2009

The Programme Committee of Typ09, ATypI’s 53th annual confer­ence, 
invites you to contribute your proposal for a presentation, workshop, or 
panel discussion for inclusion in the programme of this year’s 
conference. We are confident that Typ09 will provide an excel­lent 
opportunity for typographic professionals, experts, and enthu­siasts to 
exchange ideas, establish collaborations, and present the results of 
their research and creative works.


Locations

Typ09 will take place from 26 to 30 October in Mexico City, Mexico. From 
Monday the 26th to Wednesday the 28th, the conference will be at the 
Museo Interactivo de Economía (MIDE), a modern high-tech museum in a 
fully-restored 18th-century monastery in the historic centre of the city.

On Thursday the 29th and Friday the 30th, the TypeTools and TypeTech 
forums, as well as various workshops, tutorials, and lec­tures, will be 
held on the campus of Anáhuac University, one of the foremost 
universities in México.


Theme

The theme of Typ09, the first ATypI conference to be held in Latin 
America, is ‘the heart of the letter’. We will examine letters to 
exhibit not only their peculiar anatomies but also their inner selves. 
We will share our latest findings and demonstrate typography’s 
technological progress. We will explore the visual richness of 
pre-Columbian America and its modern expressions, including modern 
typographic solutions for old vernacular languages.


Audience

Conference attendees will represent the craft, business, educational, 
and technological spheres of type and typography. They will include type 
designers, graphic designers, project managers & software engineers from 
leading software companies and font foundries, web-designers, 
information designers, researchers, educators, writers, lettering 
artists, and students, as well as typography enthusiasts from around the 
world.


Sessions

Unlike recent ATypI conferences, which have had multiple tracks of 
programming, the first three days of Typ09 will be a single-track event, 
with a mix of presentations and panels ranging in length from five 
minutes up to forty minutes.

Each presentation should be concise, forceful, and to the point. 
Although we do not want presentations to be superficial or merely 
entertaining, we do want them to excite interest; they can be short and 
concentrated, with suggested resources for expanding and unpacking each 
subject and for delving into deeper detail later.

The last two days of the conference will consist of workshops, 
tutorials, and lectures alongside the usual ATypI TypeTech and TypeTools 
full-day programmes of talks and demos.

Workshop and lecture themes might include (but are not limited to) 
explorations of early New World printing, pre-Columbian writing, and the 
Mexican sign-painting tradition, as well as the impact of new reading 
technologies, and any aspect of type design and typography and their 
interaction with technology and culture.

TypeTech draws a diverse audience of practicing type designers, 
engineers, and programmers, and the TypeTools sessions often draw type 
designers with varying levels of experience.


Conference language

The ATypI official language is International English. All submissions, 
papers and presentations should be provided in English (Spanish 
translations are optional) and may be published.

Interpretation from/to English/Spanish will be provided during the 
Conference but not for workshops and TypeTools and TypeTech presentations.


Proposals

A submission must contain a title and an abstract of the proposed 
presentation (100 words maximum), and a speaker’s biography (100 words 
maximum).

To submit a proposal, please download and fill out the form posted at 
http://www.atypi.org/04_Mexico/files/atypiCallForPapers.pdf

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to Barbara Jarzyna, the Executive 
Secretary of ATypI ([email protected]). E-mail messages should have 
the subject line: ‘proposal for ATypI 2009’.


Target dates

Submissions due: 30 April 2009

Notification date: 1 June 2009

Presentations due: 28 August 2009


Publication

If your participation is accepted, you will receive confirmation from 
ATypI, and we will include your proposal in the conference pro­gramme. 
We will publish your biography and presentation details on the Typ09 web 
site and include the same information in the printed programme that will 
be distributed to all attendees upon their check-in. We strongly 
encourage you to send us your slides or other visual material in advance 
so that we can also include them, with all required copyright notices, 
on the conference CD/memory stick, which will be given out to 
participants at the start of the event.

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