i can already see that smoke rising ;-)
UK Major Grant Award for e-lit: ‘Poetry Beyond Text’
British Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded a major
grant (£440,000 over 2 years) to ‘Poetry Beyond Text,’ which will
include investigations into “digital poetry, books of poetry and
photography, artists’ books and concrete and pattern poetry.”
This grant marks another sign of international interest and national
arts investment in the exploration of electronic literature.
Below is news from their announcement:
Researchers at the Universities of Dundee and Kent have just been
awarded a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council,
to study poetry ‘beyond text’.
The project, entitled Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition
involves researchers in English, Comparative Literature, Psychology
and Fine Art in a 2-year partnership between the two universities.
The team will be led by Dr Andrew Michael Roberts of the Dundee
School of Humanities English Programme.
Researchers at the Universities of Dundee and Kent have just been
awarded a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council,
to study poetry 'beyond text'.
Digital media and contemporary print production techniques are
allowing poets and artists to combine words and images in new and
exciting ways, including web-based and interactive 'digital poetry'
and artists' books. However, they are drawing on a long and rich
tradition, including 20th-century 'concrete poetry', visual text
works of Cubist, Futurist and Dadaist artists, William Blake's poem
engravings of the Romantic era, Gutenberg's movable type with woodcut
images, illuminated medieval manuscripts, and Renaissance pattern
poetry. Psychologists have established that we 'read' and process
text and images in different ways. So what are the specific
perceptual and cognitive processes involved in responding to such
hybrid works operating at the threshold between word and image, the
textual and the visual? And how might an exploration of our responses
help scholars to interpret these works, and inspire or inform poets
and artists to create new works?
The project, entitled Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition
involves researchers in English, Comparative Literature, Psychology
and Fine Art in a 2-year partnership between the two universities.
The team will be led by Dr Andrew Michael Roberts of the Dundee
School of Humanities English Programme.
Funded by the AHRC's multi-million pound Beyond Text Scheme, the
project will combine the methods of literary criticism, creative
practice and human experimental psychology to study a wide range of
works: digital poetry, books of poetry and photography, artists'
books and concrete and pattern poetry. Involving poets, artists,
scholars, scientists, students and members of the public, it will
explore some of the rich interactions of text and image in
contemporary culture, and produce both creative and analytical
results, to be made available through exhibitions, new works of art,
a website and an on-line gallery.
Researchers:
Dr Andrew Michael Roberts, Dr Martin Fischer, Dr Mary Modeen
(University of Dundee);
Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Dr Ulrich Weger (University of Kent)
Contacts:
Dr Andrew Roberts - email [log in to unmask]
Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner - email [log in to unmask]
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