ilan manouach

Ilan Manouach is a multifaceted professional with several roles and accomplishments:

Professional Background

Ilan Manouach is a conceptual comics artist, book publisher, and strategy consultant for Onassis Publications.1 He holds a PhD from Aalto University, where he focused on comics epistemology and explored the effects of frontier technologies, synthetic media, fintech, and globalized logistics on the comics industry.1

Academic Positions

• Postdoctoral FNRS fellow at the Université de Liège
• Affiliate at the Metalab at Harvard
• Affiliate at the Laboratoire Paragraphe at Université Paris 81

Notable Projects

Shapereader:: Manouach is best known for creating this system for tactile storytelling, initially designed for people with visual disabilities.1

Echo Chamber:: He founded this Brussels-based non-profit organization dedicated to producing, fundraising, documenting, and archiving radical and speculative artistic practices in contemporary comics.1

Futures of Comics:: Manouach directs this international research programme examining the ongoing historic mutations of the comics industry.1

Publications and Curatorial Work

Manouach has published numerous books, including:

• "Out Side" (2024)
• "Reading" (2024)
• "ONEPIECE" (2022)
• "Fastwalkers" (2022)
• "Chimeras. Inventory of Synthetic Cognition" (2022)1

He has also curated collections of Conceptual Comics for Ubuweb and Monoskop.1

Personal Information

Born in 1980 in Athens, Greece, Ilan Manouach now lives and works in Athens and Brussels.23 His work focuses on conceptual and post-digital comics, and he explores the intersections of contemporary comics, art, and poetry.2

Ilan Manouach's diverse roles and projects demonstrate his significant contributions to the fields of conceptual art, comics, and digital media.