Peter Hebden
Research Project Title:
Poetry in Digital Media: Investigating the Remediation of Poetry through Critical and Creative Practice
Supervisors:
Prof Linda Anderson and Dr James Cummings
Contact Details:
Email: p.a.hebden@ncl.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Contemporary Poetry
- Digital Media
- Creative Practice-Based Research
- Exploratory Programming
- Digital Literature
- Contemporary Comics and Graphic Novels
- Artists’ Books
Brief Outline of Research Project:
My practice-based research investigates how the presentation of poetry through digital media affects the audience’s encounter with the text, particularly when thinking of the poem as a transmedial artefact. This work mainly focuses on presentation through mobile touchscreen devices and digital media based installations. My critical work examines a selection of existing mobile applications for poetry and performs media-specific analyses on them, investigating how the novel mode of interaction introduced into the reading interface by each app affects our perception of the poetry presented.
Research Activities:
Placements and Funding
- Northern Bridge AHRC National Productivity Investment Fund PhD Studentship (3 years)
- placement at the British Library Contemporary British Collections (3 months)
Conferences
- presented my creative research in the form of an installation at the ‘Corroding the Now’ conference at Birkbeck, University of London, 12-13th April 2019
- installation at the Newcastle Poetry Festival at Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1-14th May 2019
- poster presentation at the BEYOND conference at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 20-21st November 2019
Academic Background:
- BA (Hons) English Literature, Newcastle University
- MA Creative Writing, Newcastle University