Research network:
The Expanded Librarian: Text+Image relations in post-photographic contexts and literary environments in collaboration with CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge.

The Expanded Librarian follows the ‘Writing Photographs’ research project that Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister have been co-leading since 2015, which focused on how contemporary lens-based media integrates text and writing in cross-disciplinary installation and performance contexts.
The Expanded Librarian project aims to understand wider intermedial and intertextual approaches in theory and practice to investigate contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Call for participation:
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/sites/the-expanded-librarian/

Working groups:
Group 1: Text+Image Migrations - translation, transcription, transformation (Paula Muhr, Sarah Blair, Laura Bivolaru, Sharon Young, Tom Rodgers).
Group 2: Text+Image Remediations - intermediality, reproduction, intertextuality (Jane Partner, Simon Tyrrell, Sylee Gore, Sarah Messerschmidt).
Group 3: Text+Image Interpretations - (creative) mis-recognitions & mis-identifications (Emma Bolland, Nicolas Lambouris, Jane Glennie, Wiebke Leister).
Group 4: Text+Image Automations - constructed & generated content (Laura Rosser, Robert Good, Beverley Carruthers).

Network meetings:
Fri 9 Jun 2023: network meeting 1, CRASSH - speakers: Chris McCabe & Piotr Mirowski.
Fri 15 Sep 2023: network meeting 2, CRASSH - speakers: Emma Cocker & Peter Liversidge.
Fri 01 Nov 2023: online.
Fri 26 Jan 2024: online.

Symposium:
08/09 March 2024
Workshop: Grace Gelder, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Symposium of 4 group presentations and talk by Angus Carlyle with invited critical friends, CRASSH.
Keynote: Delphine Grass

Exhibition:
15 Feb - 15 Mar 2024, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP.
Description: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41769/
Artist statements: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41769/#artist-statements

Conference group presentation:
09-11 April 2024: SAR - Society for Artistic Research, Tilburg, NL.
Group presentation at Language-based Artistic Research session
Title: 'The Expanded Librarian: An homage to Canetti - a series of characterisations'.
Recording on Research Catalogue: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/1656336

Reading Group:
Historical and contemporary methodological approaches to theorising Text+Image relations.
Fri 28 June 2024, 10-11.30am
Fri 12 July 2024, 10-11.30am
Fri 26 July 2024, 10-11.30am
(ongoing).

the research network will continue in 2024/25.