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This impact arises from a series of funded interdisciplinary projects, studying hybrid poetic-visual art works.The research identified psychological processes in the reception of such works and studied the creative and collaborative processes involved in their making. The impact was primarily on cultural life, as defined in the Panel D criteria and this included three main areas: (1) the public understanding of art forms such as digital poetry, artists' books and concrete poetry; (2) the practice and careers of commissioned artists and writers; (3) the policy and public profile of partner non-HE institutions, notably the Scottish Poetry Library.
The impact of the research undertaken for the collaborative AHRC-funded project `Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition' (2009-11) has been the generation of a new awareness of reading and viewing behaviours in the digital age among the creative artists who were invited to respond to the project's research and visitors to the project's travelling exhibition. The `Poetry Beyond Text' project studied artworks that combine visual art (patterns, painted images, photographs, digital images) with poetic text. The research identified psychological processes in the reception of such works, and analysed the creative and collaborative processes involved in their making. The impact of this research was achieved in three main areas: (1) the public understanding of specific art forms such as digital poetry, artists' books, and concrete poetry; (2) the practice of commissioned artists and writers; (3) the policy and public profile of partner non-HEIs, notably the Scottish Poetry Library. 1 and 3 were primarily within Scotland, but 2 was both national and international, including artists and writers from the UK, the United States, and Brazil. The pathways to impact were the project's Poetry Beyond Text exhibition, a website featuring an online gallery and educational materials, and a series of debates open to the public.