Ligatus has moved office. The new address is:
Ligatus Research Centre
CCW Graduate School
University of the Arts London
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
U.K.
Ligatus news
The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830 and Identifying and recording bookbinding structures for conservation and cataloguing.
Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia, Venice (Italy)
19-23 and 26-30 September 2011
Title: Research Technician, part time
Reference: 300081
Occupation: Technical
College: University of the Arts London
Postion Type: Temporary - Part time
Sector: Ligatus Research Unit
Salary: £26,017 pro rata
Closing Date: 11/03/2011
Job Overview
one year fixed term contract, 20 hours per week
University of the Arts London is a vibrant world centre for innovation, drawing together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts and a long involvement in the book arts and book conservation.
Title: 0.5 Research Assistant - Ligatus
Reference: 300079
Occupation: Academic and Research
College: University of the Arts London
Position Type: Temporary - Part time
Sector: Ligatus Research Unit
Salary: £26,017 pro rata
Closing Date: 11/03/2011
Job Overview
one year fixed term contract
University of the Arts London is a vibrant world centre for innovation, drawing together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts and a long involvement in the book arts and book conservation.
On Thursday 3rd February 2011 at 6:00 p.m. in the Rootstein Hopkins East Space, London College of Fashion, John Princes Street,
Professor Nicholas Pickwoad will give a lecture “Finding Words- The Ligatus Glossary Project” as a part of the UAL Professorial Platform.
The Study Day will be concentrated around Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, its manuscripts and their conservation and will take place at Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford on Saturday, 27 November.
This Saturday, you are invited to two events that coincide with the final weekend of the exhibition 'John Latham: Anarchive' at the Whitechapel Gallery organised by the Ligatus Research Centre and supported by AHRC and PRS Foundation.
Saturday 4 September at 2pm
FLAT TIME/sounding
A composition and performance by composer/author David Toop based on John Latham's ideas of Flat Time.
Performers:
David Toop: laptops, flutes, strings, amplified processes, omnipresent score.
John Butcher: saxophones, etc...
Phil Durrant: Maschine, etc...
Please join us to celebrate the launch of 'The Portable John Latham'.
A collection of unpublished or rarely seen documents from the John Latham Archive Edited by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios
Thursday 15 July 2010, 69pm
Whitechapel Gallery
77 82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
Published by Occasional Papers in association with Whitechapel Gallery, London, on the occasion of the exhibition John Latham: Anarchive, 2 April - 5 September 2010
Funded by Ligatus/Camberwell College of Arts With the support of AHRC, Cassochrome and the John Latham Foundation.
The International Institute of Book & paper Conservators has invited Professor Nicholas Pickwoad to talk about Book Boxes: A New Design in Stainless Steel during the symposium "Out of sight - Out of mind?"
The symposium, which is taking place in National Museum in Prague from 27-28 May will be dedicated to the broad theme of collection management of paper-related cultural heritage. Presentations should focus on issues such as storage, storage environment, enclosures, digitization, risk management and related subjects.