Imprints of the New Modernist Editing: an intermedia exploration

该项目将最大限度地发挥AHRC资助的新现代主义编辑网络(NME)以前未预见到的工作潜力，以满足NME成员编辑和艺术家确定的需求。NME网络从2016年9月持续到2017年9月，聚集了从事现代主义文本学术编辑或对其感兴趣的学者、出版商、编辑和艺术家。NME的具体关注可以归类为两个标题：a)技术和实用：在这些文本产生的时期，印刷技术的快速变化、发展和创新的影响，以及作家前所未有地接受这一时期的修订过程。b)美学和文化：渗透着现代主义美学的流动性和不确定性的特殊特征，现代主义时期语言和视觉关系的中心，以及许多现代主义文本特有的广泛典故。我们的非学术成员指出，这些问题和正在兴起的讨论对许多非学术创作实践者和专业人士具有重大影响；创意艺术家、作家、编辑、校对、版画制作人和出版商将受益于有机会聚集在一起，以亲身实践的方式探讨这些学术和创意问题，以最大限度地交流知识和提高技能。这样的机会被视为特别重要，因为尽管许多人在许多创造性或专业领域工作，但他们与其他具有类似广泛活动领域的人见面的机会有限。NME的成果，包括弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫短篇小说的电子版和发布在NME网站上的Network Events上举行的讨论摘要，捕捉到了一些可能的方法，以应对编辑现代主义文本的挑战。NME的工作已经在现代主义领域的整个学术界产生了重大影响；这笔后续资金将把该项目的影响扩大到各种非学术或与学术相关的领域。组成该项目的六项活动是与来自一系列专业和创意领域的项目合作伙伴共同设计的，以确保我们吸引到广泛的潜在受益者。我们的非学术成员对NME开放和话语式的研讨会模式做出了非常积极的回应，这也为他们提供了信息。所有活动都将围绕从编辑角度特别感兴趣的现代主义文本精选，跨越流派和风格，并跨越现代主义时期。最重要的活动将是在尚迪音乐厅举行的作品展。我们将在NME工作结果的背景下，对任何或所有这些文本提出建议，使创造性工作得到回应。在这次展览之前，我们将举办五个工作坊：1)现代印刷技术2)书籍作为社会和文化交流的实物3)合唱团版画技术和文字/图像关系4)编辑语言，5)策划语言和视觉(回应作品展览)。这些活动将由来自我们项目合作伙伴的专家主持，包括艺术家、社会企业领导人、编辑、出版商、策展人和学术界。这些活动将把NME的见解--编辑21世纪现代主义文本活动提出的问题以及得出的结论--与那些参与广泛创意和专业领域基于文本工作的人进行富有成效的对话，与此同时，反思现代主义文本的特殊品质越来越引起后现代一代创意艺术家、作家、设计师、出版和编辑专业人士的兴趣。

This project will maximise the previously unforeseen potential of the work of the AHRC-funded New Modernist Editing Network (NME) to meet needs identified by the editors and artists who were members of the NME. The NME Network ran from September 2016 to September 2017, bringing together academics, publishers, editors and artists engaged with or with an interest in the scholarly editing of the modernist text. The specific concerns of the NME can be grouped under two headings: a) technological and practical: the effect of the rapid change, development and innovation in print technologies during the period in which these texts were being produced, alongside writer's unprecedented embracing of the process of revision in this period.b) aesthetic and cultural: the particular characteristics of fluidity and uncertainty permeating modernist aesthetics, the centrality of the relationship between the verbal and visual in the modernist period, and the breadth of allusion characteristic of many modernist texts.Our non-academic members noted that these issues and arising discussions had significant implications for numerous non-academic creative practitioners and professionals; and that creative artists, writers, editors, proofreaders, printmakers, publishers would benefit from the opportunity to come together in groups to explore these scholarly and creative issues in hands-on ways, to maximise knowledge exchange and skills enhancement. Such opportunities were seen as particularly important because, although many individuals work across a number of creative or professional fields, there are limited opportunities available for them to meet others with similarly broad fields of activity.The outputs of the NME, including a digital edition of a short fiction by Virginia Woolf and summaries of the discussions held at the Network events posted on the NME website, capture some of the possible approaches to the challenge of editing a modernist text. The work of the NME has already had significant impact across the academic community in the field of modernism; this follow-on funding will extend and expand the impact of the project into various non-academic or academic-associated fields.The six events which form the project have been designed in collaboration with project partners from a range of professional and creative fields to ensure we engage a wide range of potential beneficiaries. They are also informed by our non-academic members' very positive responses to the NME's open and discursive workshop model. All events will focus around a selection of modernist texts of particular interest from an editing perspective, ranging across genres and styles, and from across the modernist period. The centrepiece activity will be an exhibition of works to be held at Shandy Hall. We will issue a call for proposals to make creative work responding to any or all of these texts, in the context of the findings arising from the work of the NME. Leading up to this exhibition we will host five workshops: 1) modernist print technologies 2) the book as physical object of social and cultural exchange 3) pochoir printmaking technique and the text/image relationship 4) languages of editing, and 5) curating the verbal and the visual (responding to the exhibition of works). These will be run by experts drawn from our project partners including artists, social enterprise leaders, editors, publishers, curators and academics.Collectively, these events will bring the insights of the NME - the questions raised by the activity of editing a modernist text for the twenty-first century as much as the conclusions drawn - into productive dialogue with those involved in text-based work across a wide range of creative and professional fields, at a moment when reflecting on the particular qualities of the modernist text is of increasing interest to a post-postmodern generation of creative artists, writers, designers, and publishing and editorial professionals.