Curating multimedia arts festivals: the analysis and development of site-responsive strategies

本研究的目的是提供一个新的批评框架，分析和发展节日策展策略。这是视听艺术东北（AVANE）和纽卡斯尔大学美术系之间的合作伙伴关系，由国际文化和遗产研究中心支持。AVANE的主要目标是提供两年一度的电子艺术AV节，该节在纽卡斯尔、盖茨黑德、米德尔斯堡和桑德兰的城市中心举行。本项目将以AV艺术节为个案，批判性地分析大型电子艺术节的场地响应策展策略，以期概念化创新策展策略，影响多媒体艺术节的实践。在此过程中，它将为特定场地的节日策展这一研究不足的领域做出独特的贡献。该研究位于当代艺术实践，策展和场地响应实践之间的一个富有成效但研究不足的领域。目前对节日的研究往往侧重于社会或经济影响，游客动机和可持续旅游的问题。即使是像Documenta，Skulptur Projekte Münster和电子艺术国际研讨会这样的主题节日，更多的是关于个人艺术作品的，而不是作为一个实体的节日本身及其与网站的关系。利用数字资源创造性地占据公共空间（如城市屏幕）的竞争和竞争同样缺乏为创新模式提供信息所需的具体关键背景，并考虑当代，特别是城市空间对新媒体实践提出的挑战。在媒体节策展人的作用是没有解决在大多数研究生策展课程，其结果是一个巨大的技能和知识差距，本项目寻求解决。该项目的总体目标是提供对多站点城市地形的节日策展的批判性分析，并为此类节日提供站点响应策展策略，特别是涉及电子媒体。具体目标是：-为分析节日策展开发一个新的关键框架-为多媒体艺术节提出创造性的策展策略-使AVANE能够反思其节日发展预计学生将解决以下目标：- 提供AV Festival的关键案例研究-提供艺术和新媒体节日及其策展策略的分析-将AV Festival置于更广泛的国家和国际背景下-确定关键问题并将其应用于AV 12的现场案例研究-通过进行研究，理论化新的节日策展策略，特别是着眼于AV 14支撑这是研究问题集中在节日和策展，如：Festival & Practice：How have electronic arts festivals developed？艺术节中的委托和策展人之间有什么区别？以公共空间为中心的艺术节是如何演变的，策展人的模式是什么，对电子媒体有什么影响？东北部的电子媒体艺术节如何与英国和欧洲的多媒体艺术节（如文献展、ISEA）（特别是自2000年以来）联系起来？策展：多站点策展会带来什么问题？策展人在与艺术家谈判/调解空间/地点问题时扮演什么角色？新媒体作品在多场地艺术节中的潜力/问题是什么？多合作伙伴节日对策展策略有什么影响？在多大程度上，节日模式本身可以被理论化为一种公共干预？这个博士学位将是重要的批判性语境和亲

The aim of this research is to provide a new critical framework for analysing and developing festival curatorial strategies. This is a partnership between Audio Visual Arts North East (AVANE) and Newcastle University's Fine Art Department , supported by the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies. AVANE's main objective is delivery of the biennial AV Festival of electronic arts, which takes place across the urban centres of Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. Using the AV Festival as a case study, this project will critically analyse the site-responsive curatorial strategies of a large-scale electronic arts festival, with a view to conceptualising innovative curatorial strategies to influence practice in multi-media arts festivals. In so doing, it will make a unique contribution to the under-researched field of site-specific festival curatorship.The research sits in a productive but under-researched area between contemporary arts practice, curatorship and site-responsive practice. Current research into festivals tends to focus on social or economic impact, visitor motivation and issues surrounding sustainable tourism. Even with keynote festivals such as Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts more is written about individual artworks than the festival as an entity in its own right and its relationship to site. Festivals and competitions drawing on digital resources to creatively occupy public space (e.g. Urban Screens) likewise lack the specific critical context needed to inform innovative models and to consider the challenges posed to new media practice by contemporary, particularly urban, space. The role of curatorship in media festivals is not addressed in most postgraduate curating courses and the result is a substantial skills and knowledge gap which this project seeks to address. The project's overall aim is to provide critical analysis of festival curatorship over a multiple-site urban terrain and inform site-responsive curatorial strategies for such festivals, particularly involving electronic media. The specific aims are:- To develop a new critical framework for analysing festival curation- To propose creative curatorial strategies for multi-media arts festivals- To enable AVANE to reflect on its festival developmentIt is anticipated that the student will address the following objectives:- Provide critical case studies of AV Festivals- Provide analysis of arts and new media festivals and their curatorial strategies- Place AV Festivals within broader national and international context- Identify key issues and apply them to live case study of AV12- Theorise new festival curatorial strategies, through conducted research, particularly with a view to AV14Underpinning this are research questions centred on festivals and curation, such as:Festivals & Practice: How have electronic arts festivals developed? What is the difference between commissioning and curatorship within festivals? How have arts festivals centred around public space evolved, what have the patterns of curatorship been and what are the implications for electronic media? How does electronic media festival practice in the North East relate to practices of multi-media art festival curatorship in the UK and Europe (e.g. Documenta, ISEA) particularly since 2000?Curation: What problems does multiple-site curatorship impose? What is the role of the curator in negotiating/mediating issues of space/place in relation to that of the artist? What are the potentials/problems of new media works across a multiple-site festival? What implications do multi-partner festivals pose for curatorial strategies? To what extent can the festival model itself be theorised as a public intervention?This PhD will be important in critically contextualising and pro