Public Research Structure
2013
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SUPPOSE I CALL A MAN A HORSE OR A HORSE A MAN? was a residency-as-exhibition a Site Gallery, Sheffield. I created a reconfigurable ‘public research structure’ in the gallery space to house events, discussions, research materials and video work in progress. The aim was to open my working processes to a public audience as a method of developing and generating new research. I programmed a series of events pertaining to various language technologies: alphabet, printing, voice:
 

OPENING CONVERSATION:

Anna Barham, Bridget Crone, Independent Writer and Curator, Richard Steadman Jones, researcher of the history of ideas, Sheffield University Laura Sillars, Artistic Director, Site Gallery

WEDNESDAY 13th FEBRUARY
READING GROUP MEETING:
Brian Rotman - Becoming Beside Ourselves

WEDNESDAY 20th FEBRUARY
LANGUAGE SOUNDS AND ARTIFICIAL VOICES
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In discussion with Anna Barham:
Roger K Moore - Professor of Spoken Language Processing, Sheffield Universtiy, Ranjan Sen - Researcher in the sounds of language and language change, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Sheffield University

Although from different fields both work with constructing voices that are in some sense artificial - either computer generated for use in technology or reconstructing the sounds of dead languages and tracking phonetic change over time - their approaches providing fascinating insights into how language is stored and processed in the mind.

WEDNESDAY 6th MARCH
READING GROUP MEETING:
extract from The Guttenberg Galaxy - Marshal McLuhan
Jessica Winter - Brought to you by the letter I

WEDNESDAY 20th March
READING GROUP MEETING:
Derek Attridge - Unpacking the portmanteau
Soeren Hattesen Balle - Slips of the pun

THURSDAY 21st MARCH
TEXT WORLD THEORY
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In conversation with Anna Barham: Joanna Gavins, Senior lecturer in literary linguistics, Sheffield University.

For the past ten years Joanna Gavins has been involved in the development of Text World Theory, a cognitive- linguistic model of human discourse processing, and its application to literary discourse in particular. She will give an introduction to her research opening into a conversation with Anna about how these ideas touch on her work.

FRIDAY 22nd MARCH

CLOSING CONVERSATION
Anna Barham & Bridget Crone, Independent Writer and Curator