Post-Doc, Fine Art
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About the Author
Ruben Malayan (1971) is an Armenian-born artist, photographer and graphic designer, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He holds degrees from Terlemezian Art College (painting) & from the State Institute of Fine Arts (graphics) in Yerevan, Armenia. Since 1990 has participated in annual exhibitions at the Union of Armenian Artists and the Armenian Institute of Fine Arts. Ruben Malayan is founder of the "Armenian Genocide of 1915-23 in Contemporary Graphic & Art Posters" international graphic design competition which has received wide acclaim and coverage in the international press, with winning posters published in a number of books and magazines in Israel and abroad. During his work in the Netherlands (2000-2002), Ruben participated in the documentary "Virtual Fatherlands" by Dutch filmmaker Maartje Nevejan. Recently, Ruben's graphic posters were published in Yair Auron's new book titled "Israel & Armenian Genocide: The Banality of Indifference" (and in a number of subsequent volumes), published in Hebrew by Tel Aviv Open University Press.
In a series of lectures sponsored by the Slifka Center at Yale University, Ruben will discuss (forthcoming Nov.2009) comparative genocides through the prism of contemporary cinema and graphic art; he will examine the calligraphy of the sacred manuscripts, including Jewish "Tfilin" and Armenian "Hmail"s as part of his research on his upcoming book "Art of Armenian Calligraphy", a volume he co-writes with prominent Armenologists Michael Stone (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Dikran Kouymjian (California State University) and James Russell (Harvard University).
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