{"id":6363,"date":"2020-01-31T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:16:29","slug":"a-multimedia-experience-attars-conference-of-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2020\/01\/31\/a-multimedia-experience-attars-conference-of-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Multimedia Experience: Attar&#8217;s &#8220;Conference of the Birds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Fall 2019, Sassan Tabatabai convened a workshop for Digital\/Multimedia Expression, in which students created a multimedia online edition of excerpts from The Conference of the Birds. This edition consists of student-created images and collages that strive to retell Attar&#8217;s story in a remediated fashion, in an effort to breathe new life into an ancient (and typically under-appreciated in Western universities) text. <\/p>\n<p>Explore the project online <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul &#8211;<br \/>\nHis dancing breaks beyond the mind&#8217;s control. -Farid Attar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Fall 2019, Sassan Tabatabai convened a workshop for Digital\/Multimedia Expression, in which students created a multimedia online edition of excerpts from The Conference of the Birds. This edition consists of student-created images and collages that strive to retell Attar&#8217;s story in a remediated fashion, in an effort to breathe new life into an ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}