The trace Online Writing Centre at the Nottingham Trent University has received an Innovation Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) to help establish new media writing as an art form worthy of research.
Artistic Director of trAce, Sue Thomas said: ?At present even practical creative writing courses are fighting to be taken seriously in British universities. This award is a snapshot of a very specific evolutionary moment in the history of literature. It could be compared to the moment when painters first began to make use of the camera. Although photography did not come to replace painting, it altered the nature of the artistic visual experience?. The Innovations Award is a new scheme for the AHRB and trAce is to receive £47,280 for its one-year research project, which will map the transition from writing for print to writing for the web.
The research will involve defining the differences between print-based and web-based literature, and will include identifying the common creative skills and qualities needed by writers moving towards writing for new media.
t: 0115 848 3551 e: sue.thomas@ntu.ac.uk