Latin(o) American Digital Art: Exhibitions and Audience-Participation Workshops

这个项目遵循我的AHRC奖学金，重点是拉丁美洲在线文化生产者如何在他们的作品中代表拉丁美洲的关键地点。在研究我的奖学金的过程中，它属于AHRC的数字转型重点，我确定了3个特别的趋势：首先，战术媒体的做法，拉丁美洲新媒体艺术家利用数字技术反对粮食;其次，在线技术经常被用来代表离线的事实;三是新媒体艺术将数字参与与线下介入结合起来。这三个发现现在通知当前的提案，这将使我能够传达这些发现到广泛的利益相关者，并付诸实践，这些概念在一系列的研讨会，合作活动和展览。这个新的拟议项目建立在我以前的研究，但超越了学术研究的领域。在这一年中，将举行一系列形式的合作，参与和影响，涉及四个主要群体：第三部门社区媒体组织;艺术画廊和博物馆;艺术家和文化制作人;观众和观众。该项目的目的是，首先，绘制出在以前的奖学金和其他区域和国家背景下检查的数字艺术之间的相互联系，使拉丁美洲（o）新媒体艺术家和利物浦的第三部门合作媒体项目之间的想法共享。其次，该项目旨在培养和展示超越文化艺术实践通常轮廓的艺术作品，鼓励参与性数字艺术作品，使观众成为积极的共同创作者。第三，该项目旨在弥合社交媒体与文化艺术实践之间的差距，鼓励反思性地使用社交媒体作为艺术和策展实践的潜在反馈回路。第四，该项目旨在解决英国新媒体节策展实践中存在的差距，其中拉丁美洲人目前代表性不足，从而提高这些艺术家的知名度，将他们的工作带给英国观众，并提供创新的形式与他们的实践互动。为了实现这些目标，该项目计划在11个月的时间内组织一系列活动。其中包括为期2个月的艺术家驻留计划，在利物浦大学和FACT艺术画廊联合举办;艺术家创作的原创作品;另外3位受邀艺术家的访问，为期10天; 2014年独立利物浦双年展上题为“对话中的城市”的展览;以及一系列与利物浦社区媒体项目Veterans in Practice、Tenantspin和Freehand分享的主题研讨会。该项目还将在全年试用利用社交媒体的开放式参与性观众平台，这些平台将被纳入上述研讨会，展览和驻留，但也将继续超越这些平台。该项目还包括3个书面产出，首先是2014年独立利物浦双年展的城市对话展览的方案说明，其中包括对艺术家的采访，有关他们实践的背景信息，以及对展览中作品的介绍。第二个书面产出是针对普通观众的展览回顾卷，包括解释背景的介绍性文章，对艺术家的采访，与第三部门组织的对话，对正在进行的作品的观察以及作品的彩色照片。第三份书面成果将是一份简短的政策文件，用于FACT、独立利物浦双年展和其他新媒体和当代艺术场所，总结项目过程中的主要发现。

This project follows on from my AHRC Fellowship which focussed on how Latin(o) American online cultural producers represent key locations in Latin America in their works. In the course of researching my Fellowship, which fell under the AHRC's Digital Transformations highlight, I identified 3 particular trends: firstly, the practices of tactical media, whereby Latin(o) American new media artists employ digital technologies against the grain; secondly, the fact that online technologies are often employed to represent offline place; and thirdly, that new media art combines digital participation with offline intervention. These 3 findings now inform the current proposal, which will enable me to communicate these findings to a wide range of stakeholders and to put into practice these concepts in a series of workshops, collaborative events and exhibitions.This new proposed project builds upon my previous research, but moves beyond the realm of academic research. Over the course of the year, a series of forms of collaboration, engagement and impact will be held involving 4 principal groups: third sector community media organizations; art galleries and museums; artists and cultural producers; and spectators and audiences. The project aims, firstly, to draw out interconnections between the digital art examined in the previous Fellowship and other regional and national contexts, enabling the sharing of ideas between Latin(o) American new media artists and third sector collaborative media projects in Liverpool. Secondly, the project aims to foster and exhibit art works that reach out beyond the usual contours of cultural-artistic practice, encouraging participatory digital art works with spectators enabled as active co-creators. Thirdly, the project aims to bridge the gap between social media and cultural-artistic practice to encourage reflective use of social media as potential feedback loops for artistic and curatorial practice.Fourthly, the project aims to address the existing gap in curatorial practice in new media festivals in the UK, in which Latin(o) Americans are currently under-represented, and so raise the profile of these artists, bring their work to a UK audience, and provide for innovative forms of engagement with their practice.In order to achieve these aims, the project plans a series of activities structured over the course of an 11-month period. These include a 2-month Artist in Residence Scheme, held jointly at the University of Liverpool and FACT art gallery; an original artwork developed by the artist; a visit of 3 further Invited Artists for a shorter, 10-day period; an exhibition, entitled Cities in Dialogue, at the Independents Liverpool Biennial, 2014; and a series of shared themed workshops with the Liverpool-based community media projects, Veterans in Practice, Tenantspin and Freehand. The project will also trial throughout the year open-ended participatory audience platforms making use of social media, which will be integrated into the workshops, exhibition and Residency mentioned above, but also continuing beyond these. The project also includes 3 written outputs, comprising firstly the Programme Notes to accompany the Cities in Dialogue exhibition for the Independents Liverpool Biennial 2014, which will include interviews with the artists, contextual information about their practice, and an introduction to the works in the exhibition. The second written output is a Retrospective volume on the exhibition targeted at a general audience, and including introductory pieces explaining the context, interviews with the artists, conversations with the third sector organizations, observations of the works in progress and colour photographs of the works. The third written output will be a short Policy Document for FACT, the Independents Liverpool Biennial and other new media and contemporary art venues, summing up the main findings during the course of the project.