Beyond text: performances, sounds, images, objects (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC))

Introduction

Generating new understanding into the ways we communicate
With increased movement and cross-fertilization between countries and cultures, and the acceleration of global communications, we have entered an era where not only the written word, but also performances, sounds, images and objects can be circulated more rapidly and widely than ever before. In response to this, the AHRC has created Beyond Text, a strategic programme to generate new understandings of, and research into, the impact and significance of the way we communicate.

Background
Beyond Text is a programme that has been developed by AHRC following a two year period of consultation with the arts and humanities research communities. Introduced in 2007, it aims to support a multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners drawn from Higher Education, museums, galleries, libraries, business, policy, media, technology and the law to explore the ways in which communication is articulated, transmitted, received and controlled. It also aims to enhance the connections between those who make and preserve works, and those who study them.

The Programme
Beyond Text centres on five thematic, interdisciplinary areas: Making and Unmaking; Performance, Improvisation and Embodied Knowledge; Technology, Innovation and Tradition; mediations; Transmission and Memory. These themes provide a framework to investigate the formation and transformations of performances, sounds, images, and objects in a wide field of social, historical and geographical contexts, tracing their reception, assimilation and adaptation across temporal and cultural boundaries. The programme has a budget of £5.5 million over 5 years and runs from 2007 to 2012.

ESTIMATED CLOSE DATE please check if funding is still available with the contact.

Close Date: 31 December 2010

Type: Other

More Info: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/BeyondText.aspx

16 July 2010