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This is a Research Forum including artists, writers and academics from the Slade in dialogue with other researchers at UCL and other London and international institutions, who are working on the relation between words and images across various fields of creativity and scholarship.

Off the Shelf Poster
Off the Shelf Poster, 2010
Exit Strategy
Exit Strategy, Book

Off the Shelf Exhibition, UCL Cloisters, March 2010

Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf

Off the Shelf, UCL Cloisers, March 2010

Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf

Off the Shelf exhibition, UCL Cloisers, March 2010

Off the Shelf Exhibition
Off the Shelf Exhibition

UCL Cloisers, March 2010

Off the Shelf Exhibition
Off the Shelf Exhibition

UCL Cloisers, March 2010

This is a Research Forum including artists, writers and academics from the Slade in dialogue with other researchers at UCL and other London and international institutions, who are working on the relation between words and images across various fields of creativity and scholarship.

This is a Research Forum including artists, writers and academics from the Slade in dialogue with other researchers at UCL and other London and international institutions, who are working on the relation between words and images across various fields of creativity and scholarship. The aim of the Forum is to address research questions that emerge from the interaction between different disciplines. We hope that this will generate new research in the field of 'Word Image' studies.

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Research themes and participants

The Book

Liz Lawes (UCL Small Press Collection), Professor Susan Irvine (Deptartment of English, UCL), Dr David Miller (Department of English, Nottingham Trent), Yve Lomax (Royal College of Art), Elizabeth James (Victoria and Albert Museum, Word & Image Department / National Art Library), Maria White, Chief Cataloguer, Tate / Stephen Bury (The Frick Collection)

Space

Professor Jane Rendell (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL), Tom Lomax (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Francette Pacteau (Royal College of Art), James O'Leary (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Poetics and performance

Carol Watts (Birkbeck College), Kristen Kreider (Royal Holloway College), Brigid McLeer (Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry University)

Digital Poetics

Jon Thomson (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL) , Dr Penny Florence (Department Chair, Humanities and Design Sciences, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena)

Beyond OULIPO

Alison Craighead (University of Westminster)

Metaphor

Martin John Callanan (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL)

Moving Image

Jon Thomson (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Judith Goddard (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Daniel Kane (American Studies, University of Sussex), Matilde Nardelli, (Centre for Intercultural Studies, Department of Italian, UCL), Dr Lee Grieveson (Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL), Michael Duffy (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL)

C.S. Peirce

Sharon Morris (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Chiara Ambrosio (Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL), Professor Dr Winfried Nöth (University of Kassel), Dr Wendy Wheeler (Department of Humanities Arts and Languages, London Metropolitan University), Dr Paul Ryan

Events

Off the Shelf, 22 March 2010

OFF THE SHELF: PERFORMANCE, FILM, VIDEO, POETRY, MUSIC: an evening of live-events staged by the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, to take place in the Wilkins North and South Cloisters plus the Old Refectory, March 22nd 2010, 6.00-10.30pm. Taking as its theme a re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL, this event will give you the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry - including artists and writers Vito Acconci, Sol Le Witt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Derek Jarman and Bob Cobbing. These texts will be explored through various forms of performance and accompanied by film, video and documentation of the period. The evening will also stage new creative works by contemporary visual artists, writers and musicians, and students, and a 'speaker's corner' with short talks by members of the Slade Word/Image Research Forum. This is one of a series of public events planned by the forum for 2009-2011. The Slade OFF THE SHELF is the grateful recipient of a Beacon Bursary administered via the department of Public Engagement, UCL.