News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Category Archives: Interdisciplinary Theory
Verba Picta: Navigating Multimediality in the Italian Poetry of the Last Half Century
The investigation of the close dialogue between poetic and visual language in the Italian panorama of the last seventy years is at the centre of the research project Verba Picta. Interrelazione tra...
Borders-Translations-Norms. The Medium Matters. Materialism And (Artistic) Media
Since the 1960s there has been an interest in (artistic) media from (tending towards) the technologically deterministic of Marshall McLuhan, to critics on the left such as Raymond Williams (Contact: Human Communication...
The Postmedium Condition, or Better: Art-at-Large
Rosalind Krauss’ development of the idea of the postmedium condition (1999a) was inspired by Walter Benjamin and his conception of the redemptive characteristics of the obsolescence of the medium: the medium is...
Elephants in the Dark: Towards a Theory of Interartistic Practice
A famous Indian folk tale tells the story of six men in a dark room, groping an elephant to learn what it is really like. Each one touches a different part and...