The phenomenology of creativity in the graphic novel: A practical investigation of intermedial visual storytelling.

本研究计画将透过实践，探讨平面小说的形式属性如何能阐明支撑创作行为的认识论与现象学过程。本计画将有助于我们了解平面小说作为一种新兴且未被充分研究的媒介，其与现有媒介的交叉关系（例如文学小说、诗歌、美术、电影、叙事插图、戏剧）意味着它具有独特的中介属性。它还将为该领域贡献一系列独特的原创艺术品，这些艺术品具有形式和主题上的创新性（这些艺术品将包括但不限于一部扩展的图形小说）。200页），我的项目将探索和利用媒体的能力，为正式的混合，以创造一个身体的工作，作为一个扩展的视觉元叙事，评论的方式知道和经验的创造力。该项目的具体结构如下：意识，意向性和第一人称视角，每一个都将与创造性行为相关。该项目包括50%的实践工作和50%的理论/评论（约45，000字），它们将相互并行（见下面的时间表）。通过正式实验的方法（使用一系列技术和媒体，如纸张工程，使用飞出，数字技术，如QR码），实践和理论元素将相互转化。迭代测试也将用于开发实际工作，与主要目标受众合作，包括普通成人读者和行业专家（设计师，出版商，图书管理员，书商），无论是在线还是在可能的情况下，通过年度展览和反馈，我很好地承担这项工作的基础上，我的工作在插图硕士在诺丁汉特伦特大学（2019-2020），在其中我创作了一部名为FL_W的元虚构图形小说（114页）。FL_W是从一个反思创造力的艺术家的第一人称视角写的。读者可以看到她的思维过程，她的视觉效果，以及她的劳动成果。在主题上，FL_W评论了时间流逝的经验和我们的自我意识。形式上，FL_W是一个混合叙事，结合了原创散文，对话，歌词，诗歌和剧本，并在视觉上参考了著名的美术作品。我对中间性的探索以及艺术过程和产品之间的关系，将成为我的实践研究项目的基础。

research project will investigate, through practice, how the formal properties of the graphic novelcan shed light on the epistemological and phenomenological processes that underpin the creative act.The project will contribute to our understanding of the graphic novel as an emerging and under-studiedmedium whose intersecting relationship with existing mediums (e.g. literary fiction, poetry, fine art, film,narrative illustration, theatre) means that it has uniquely intermedial properties. It will also contribute aunique series of original creative artefacts to the field with formally and thematically innovativeproperties (these will include, but may not be restricted to, an extended graphic novel (c. 200 pp.),development work/passes, and process books).My project will explore and exploit the medium's capacity for formal hybridity in order to create a body ofwork that serves as an extended visual meta-narrative, commenting on ways of knowing and on theexperience of creativity. The specific areas that will structure the project are as follows: consciousness,intentionality, and the first-person perspective, each of which will be explored in relation to the creativeact.The project consists of 50% practical work and 50% theory/commentary (approximately 45,000 words),which will run alongside each other (see timetable below). The practical and theoretical elements willinform each other, through a methodology of formal experimentation (using a range of techniques andmedia such as paper engineering, use of fly-outs, digital technologies such as QR codes). Iterative testingwill also be used to develop the practical work, working with key target audiences including a generaladult readership and industry experts (designers, publishers, librarians, booksellers), both online andwhere possible, in person, through annual exhibitions and feedback.I am well-placed to undertake this work on the basis of my work for the MA in Illustration at NottinghamTrent University (2019-2020), in which I created a meta-fictional graphic novel called FL_W (114pp.).FL_W was written from the first-person perspective of an artist who reflects on creativity. The reader seesher thought processes, her visual imaginings, and the products of her labour. Thematically, FL_Wcommented on the experience of the passage of time and our sense of self. Formally, FL_W was a hybridnarrative, combining original prose, dialogue, lyrics, poetry and play scripts, and visually referencingfamous works of fine art. My exploration of intermediality and the relationship between artistic processand product, will be the foundation for my research-by-practice project.