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Search Visualiser: Art Gallery Exhibition
07 October 2013 - 25 October 2013 Gallery Opening Times, Art Gallery, Chancellor's Building
Helen on the battlements and Maeve on the battlefields: Visualising a woman’s world in epic texts
This exhibition uses a new way of showing text as images, where science and literature combine in images that are simultaneously analysis and art. It focuses on the portrayals of the women at the heart of two national epics, the Iliad and its Irish counterpart the Cattle Raid of Cooley. Helen of Troy watches the battles from the walls of Troy; proud Maeve of Connaught stands on the battlefields of Ireland surrounded by her warriors. Images from the new Search Visualizer software show the patterns within the texts, giving new insights into the roles of these two very different women, across time and space and language.
This is a multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together art, computer science, literary studies and social science. The software, Search Visualizer, displays a text schematically, with the locations of chosen keywords shown in coloured highlight. The images are visually striking, and also give powerful insights into the structures of the texts. The software was invented at Keele University by Dr Gordon Rugg and Dr Ed de Quincey, who are multidisciplinary researchers.
FREE
ART GALLERY OPENING HOURS
Monday – Friday: 10.00am – 8.00pm
Saturday: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Sunday: 11.00am – 4.00pm
Opening times may alter due to University activities. Please check in advance of your journey.
The Art Gallery is located within the Chancellor’s Building on the University campus and is open to staff, students and the general public.
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Box Office: 01782 734340
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