Tracing Transmedial Sameness
How can we identify meaningful transmedial points of contact between cultural practices in a way that doesn’t overlook the specific modes of expression inherent to different medial forms? My doctoral research has...
How can we identify meaningful transmedial points of contact between cultural practices in a way that doesn’t overlook the specific modes of expression inherent to different medial forms? My doctoral research has...
What is peculiar to interdisciplinary projects that bring together literature and digital tools? Technological instability, I would suggest. This immediately raises issues concerning fruition and accessibility. But is this instability a failure?...
My contribution at the recent Interart/Intermedia conference looked at the interartistic collaboration between Verga and Duse and the effect their collaboration had on Italy’s artistic creativity: observations which have been inspired by...
Traditionally modelled around a ‘lone scholar’ approach, research in the arts and humanities has been shifting in recent years towards collaborative practices more familiar to scholars in the social and natural sciences....
by Clodagh Brook Interdisciplinarity has been a driving agenda in Universities for some decades. We are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary ways, although these are most often only vaguely articulated. What does...
[This post was originally published in the Language Acts and Worldmaking blog] Last June I had the pleasure to give a talk at the workshop Mapping Multilingualism and Digital Culture organised by...
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...
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...
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...
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...