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Poetry in the Digital Age(ERC Advanced Grant)

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Completed research

Ansicht der Südfassade der Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin-Hellersdorf mit dem titellosen Gedicht von Barbara Köhler, das sich dort seit 2018 befindet.

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Public Poetry: Lyric in Urban Space

Dedicated to the visual and aural presence of poetry in urban settings, the interdisciplinary research project combined approaches from literary studies and urban sociology and resulted in a book publication.

Alessandro Bosetti sitzt während seiner Sound Poetry Performance an einem Tisch mit Sampler und Laptop, spricht in ein Mikrofon, links ist ein Teil des Publikums zu sehen.

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Sonic Poetry: Technological Practices as Creative Methods (SP1)

At the center of this dissertation, finalized in the end of 2024, was the intermedial field of contemporary sound poetry with regard to the use of (electronic and digital) media technologies as production tools.

Monitor mit Oszillogramm.

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Live Poetry as Verbal Art: Reading, Slam and Rap (SP2)

This dissertation’s goal was to establish a speech science-based analysis of poetry and the extension of discourses in the field about the oral performance of poetry. The research was concluded in early 2025

Quellcode in der Programmiersprache Python; bunte Schriftzeichen auf schwarzem Grund

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Digital Visual Poetry. Programmed Writing and Kinetic Typography (SP3)

Dr. Wiebke Vorrath’s research was conducted in the period January 2021 to March 2023. It resulted in several talks and publications, but had to be terminated for personal reasons before the end of the project’s runtime.