John McVey professes design in beverly, and lives in cambridge, mass

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several biographical episodes are detailed or alluded to elsewhere in these pages — freeway, hardware, ea, radioaves.

lobang2 dalam penceriteraan ini juga ada, termasuk bertahunan silam saya coba mendalami Indonesia — sasteranya, sejarahnya, musiknya (kroncong yang paling kunikmati) tapi akhirnya tak lulus – sama sekali gagal – dan ngambil jalan lain.

married, Kuniko Yamada
two sons, Euan Ryuta (b.1990) and Chisaku Pramoedya (b.1997)
 

presentations, exhibitions, etc.

  • Indexing as autobiographical practice in the 19th century : an examination of copies of John Todd’s Index Rerum
    Material Cultures 2010, Edinburgh, July 2010
  • Codex/Code : Book and Procedure at the Center of Telegraphic Reading and Writing
    CBAA Biennial Conference, University of Iowa Center for the Book —
    Art, Fact, and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place January 8-10, 2009
  • Telegraphic Codes and Message Practice, a Selection from Harvard Library Holdings
    curated exhibit
    Cabot Science Library, 9 February – 26 May 2006
  • Ekphrastic Telegraphy
    lecture at Montserrat College of Art, 5 April 2006
  • Thesauruses, codes and mundane telegraphy 1870-1930
    paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Society for the History of Technology (Minneapolis, 3-6 November 2005)
  • Elementary Types : Not-so dead-end ideas in telegraphic printing of letters and pictures, 1900-1925
    paper presented at Temporary Type Conference, St Bride Library (London, 10-12 October 2005)
    on elemental types for facsimile telegraphy and for letterform generation in printing telegraphy
    see elementary signs
  • Kalkzeep / There is a perfect understanding : Telegraphic clarity and Gertrude Stein's writing clear as mud.
    paper presented at Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference (Boston, March 2003)

 

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