Catherine Byron and Simon Mills
catherine.byron@ntu.ac.uk
Catherine Byron
I am a poet who writes for the page, the voice, and the web. I am interested in ways of embodying the 'matter of this world' in these different textual media, and in collaborations with visual and sound artists. As a member of the 'Writers of the Future' Textlab group in 2003, I created a piece of exploratory new media writing, Creel of Voices , and in 2004 I developed the soundscript of a three minute DVD with screenwriter Georgina Lock on the topic of synaesthesia, Skinwhisper. I am currently in the second year of a three-year Creative Fellowship in Writing awarded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. My overall project title is 'The Hous of Rumour: a structure open to all voices, weathers, and elements'. I am working on a series of re-visionings of Chaucer's 14th Century Hous of Fame, several of them digital. In these, I particularly want to explore the possibilities of interactivity that online digital work can offer . With the support of the trAce Online Writing Community, I created the Poetry Society's first web-specific poem for their website, back in 1999. My recent books include: The Getting of Vellum, Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney to Purgatory, and The Fat-Hen Field Hospital. Catherine Byron is supported by an AHRC Creative Fellowship.
smills@dmu.ac.uk
Simon Mills
I am a Senior Lecturer in New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. Prior to this I worked in the commercial website development sector for several years before managing the trace Online Writing Centre's Web Studio and consulting services where I also edited the frAme Online Journal of Culture & Technology. Alongside my educational work I also work as a new media artist with a specific interest in how technological metaphors influence notions of self and space. Two recent projects include The War Room / The War Ruin with Alan Sondheim http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/warroom/ and Let Us Turn http://www.ultimateconcern.net/letusturn/ .
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