Kurt Schwitters's Intermedia Networks of the Avant-garde - The Merz Series (1923-1932) and Merz Printed Papers

拟议的研究项目是专门为多媒体前卫杂志系列编辑库尔特施威特斯1923年至1932年之间，并命名后，他自己的综合艺术概念梅尔茨。Merz的基本原则是超越中间和结构边界，并使用各种外来材料进行艺术处理。Merz系列在结构和内容层面上形成了艺术家兴趣和实践的焦点。因此，对这一系列作品进行准确的科学分析，一方面可以为作品的发展和艺术策略提供重要的见解，另一方面也可以为梅尔茨在国际前卫艺术中的定位提供重要的见解。有史以来第一次，Kurt Schwitters的前卫跨媒体网络-Merz系列（1923年至1932年）和梅尔茨印刷文件旨在充分研究这一独特的文件，在其所有的结构和设计，从跨学科的角度来看，相关的特点，并提出它在一个全面的和科学的方式，作为一个数字版和印刷版.此外，与Schwitters的广告印刷品的多种关系旨在拓宽他的印刷概念的实际应用方面的视角，并将他在艺术和应用艺术之间的界限方面的越界方法可视化。由于该系列在形式和主题上偶尔打破结构的多样性，到目前为止，既没有从新闻管理的角度对《梅尔茨》杂志进行研究，也没有在充分考虑到原始材料状况的情况下对其违法内容进行探讨，也没有在整个系列的框架内进行背景分析。拟议的项目旨在为Merz系列提供一种新的方法：考虑到以前未探索过的材料，Merz杂志将在Schwitters全面的内容和设计艺术原则的背景下进行审查，并作为他整体艺术的一个组成部分呈现概念。材料的形式和设计相关的特征需要高度可视化的编辑表示形式以及各种媒体的连接。在编辑层面上提出的挑战还需要一个关于数字基础设施的创新概念，从而实现数字人文领域的决定性进步。这就是特里尔数字人文中心密切参与该项目的原因。只有通过跨学科合作，才有可能制定出适合于捕捉问题复杂性的有效术语和表述结构。因此，该项目不仅将作出跨学科的贡献，施维特的研究，但也有助于扩大文书的文学分析和技术设施，在电子出版。

The proposed research project is dedicated to a multimedia avant-garde magazine series edited by Kurt Schwitters between 1923 and 1932 and named after his own comprehensive art concept Merz. The essential principles of Merz are the transgression of medial and structural boundaries and the use of foreign materials of all sorts for the purpose of artistic processing. The Merz series forms a focal point of the artist`s interests and practices on both a structural and content level. An accurate scientific analysis of the series can therefore provide crucial insights into the development and the artistic strategies of the oeuvre on the one hand and into the positioning of Merz within the international avant-garde on the other hand. For the first time ever, the project Kurt Schwitters`s Intermedia Networks of the Avant-garde - The Merz Series (1923-1932) and Merz Printed Papers seeks to fully research this unique document of the interwar period in all its structural and design-related characteristics from an interdisciplinary point of view and to present it in a comprehensive and scientifically grounded way as both a digital edition and a print edition. Additionally, the manifold relations to Schwitters`s advertising printed matter are meant to broaden the perspective in terms of the practical application of his typographical concepts and also to visualise his transgressive approach with respect to the boundaries between art and applied art. Because of the series` occasionally structure-breaking diversity in both form and topics, the Merz magazines have so far neither been studied in view of their journalistic management nor have their transgressive contents been explored with full consideration of the state of source material and contextualised within the framework of the entire series. The proposed project seeks to enable a new approach to the Merz series: Taking into account previously unexplored materials, the Merz magazines will be examined in the context of Schwitters`s comprehensive artistic principles of content and design and presented as an integral part of his total art concept. The formal and design-related characteristics of the material require a highly visualised form of editorial representation plus the linking-up of various media. The challenges presented on an editorial level additionally demand an innovative concept with regard to the digital infrastructure, thus enabling decisive advancements in the field of Digital Humanities. This is why the Trier Center for Digital Humanities is intimately involved in the project. Only by means of interdisciplinary collaboration is it possible to develop valid terms and structures of presentation suited to capture the complexity of the issue. Thus, the project will not only make an interdisciplinary contribution to Schwitters research, but also contribute to the expansion of the instruments of literary analysis and of the technical facilities in electronic publishing.