The British Academy Showcase An Anti-AI Comics Workshop This Summer time

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The British Academy showcases an anti-AI comics workshop this summer time with Professor Hugo Frey and Professor Simon Grennan

Professor Hugo Frey is a cultural and political historian and director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities on the College of Chichester. His analysis focuses on twentieth-century France and Francophone Europe, with particular emphasis on the politics of visible tradition. He has revealed over 40 books on this subject, together with The Graphic Novel: An Introduction from Cambridge College Press in 2015.

And on the British Academy Summer time Showcase 2025 this 12 months, he’ll information faculty leavers in creating counter-AI comedian e book strips. The workshop Make the Previous and Current Your Comedian Story, will see college students create a four-panel shaggy dog story utilizing Victorian-era and present-day magazines.

Professor Frey, says “We can be chopping up bundles of Victorian magazines in addition to trendy publications, utilizing scissors and glue to get actually hands-on. Then we are going to develop into counter-AI, producing narratives utilizing these photos to encourage the human creativeness in a method that synthetic intelligence cannot. We would find yourself with a conventional closed story or one thing very uncommon and open-ended.”

Professor Frey is presenting the workshop in partnership with Professor Simon Grennan from the College of Chester as a part of this 12 months’s British Academy Summer time Showcase 2025 and it’ll additionally may also discover topics resembling sequence, juxtaposition, and text-image communication. And goals to assist faculty leavers perceive the world of analysis and encourage them to pursue additional college examine. Final 12 months they headed up The Industrial Enterprise of Comics: Remodeling Authorship, Distribution, Know-how, Story and Aesthetics within the International North and South.

Professor Frey added: “It’s an honour to be invited to participate within the British Academy Summer time Showcase and I’m particularly happy that the Universities of Chichester and Chester are represented at such a prestigious occasion the place college students would be the focus. It’s a privilege to have been accepted and I’m actually trying ahead to an thrilling day.”

It can even be accompanied by “Energy Grids: Reimagining Vitality Infrastructure In Comics. By way of the medium of comics, find out about group vitality options to pricey – and environmentally damaging – fossil-fuel infrastructures. Discover the broader social advantages of group vitality and uncover how one can have a extra energetic position in making and utilizing inexperienced infrastructure. Share your personal story and expertise of thriving or failing infrastructure by creating your personal brief comedian and contribute model new speculative inexperienced vitality concepts. Dominic Davies, Kremena Dimitrova and Reed Puc – British Academy / Leverhulme Small Analysis Grant”

This new work with the British Academy follows Professor Frey’s profitable award with Simon of a British Academy Analysis Convention Grant. It additionally precedes the most important worldwide exhibition he’s co-curating on the Brussels Comics Museum on ‘Visionary Comics’ from September to December 2025.

The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)by Jan Baetens, Hugo FreyThis e book gives each college students and students with a important and historic introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey discover this thrilling type of visible and literary communication, exhibiting readers the way to situate and analyze graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century in the past. A number of key questions are addressed: What’s the graphic novel? How can we learn graphic novels as narrative kinds? Why is web page design and publishing format so important? What theories are growing to clarify the style? How is this type blurring the classes of excessive and well-liked literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the outdated comics? The authors deal with these and lots of different questions raised by the style. By their evaluation of the works of many well-known graphic novelists – together with Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware – Baetens and Frey supply important insights for future instructing and analysis on the graphic novel.

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