Robert Ayers wins British Arts and Humanities research residency at Franklin Furnace

[anna balint]

Robert Ayers wins British Arts and Humanities research residency at
Franklin Furnace.

In its most recent round of funding the [British] Arts and Humanities
Research Board announced that Robert Ayers, performance artist and
Professor of the Contemporary Arts at the Nottingham Trent University,
England, had been awarded funding (- on the basis of academic excellence -)
to work directly with Martha Wilson at Franklin Furnace for four months
from January 1, 2003.  He will be making an extended study of the current
relationship between digital and live performance, and using the current
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and Future of the Present
projects as case studies.  During his research residency he will be
visiting artists and institutions with a particular interest in the point
at which the live and the digital meet, and at the conclusion of his
research he will be writing and editing a printed publication which will be
published by Far Ahead Publications in England.