Digital Technology and Human Vulnerability: Towards an Ethical Film Praxis

数字技术与人类脆弱性：迈向道德电影实践

• 批准号: AH/M010589/1
• 负责人: Michele Aaron
• 金额: $ 4.94万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM010589%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Technology; Human; Vulnerability; Towards

Digital film technology, in its seemingly intimate and infinite capacities to stage the suffering of others for an ever wider audience, has transformed the encounter between those watching and the vulnerable other. While this 'ethical' encounter is the subject of much discussion within film theory, and media and arts debates, researchers are yet to consider fully the impact of the digital within it, and practitioners lack detailed ethical guidelines that move far beyond basic questions of consent or good practice. This research explores and reflects upon how the use of digital technologies transforms our engagement with, understanding of, and response to human vulnerability. For this pilot study, the team will work with one group of vulnerable adults, those affected by terminal illness at the John Taylor Hospice in Erdington, Birmingham, to co-create digital films. This filmmaking project, linked to and informed by Art therapy and the wellbeing team at the hospice, will provide immediate therapeutic benefits for the participants but will also have enduring impact, for all stakeholders, through the digital spaces that will be developed as part of the research-the online interactive website and the exhibition-and which will bring these films and materials to wider and new audiences. Ethical issues are at the heart of this research not simply because it involves vulnerable adults, but because it depends upon ethical discussions about the mediation of the suffering of others within film theory, educational and arts practice and global ethics debate. The multi-disciplinary team of practitioners and researchers will work together to identify, share and apply the ethical issues inherent to engaging with human vulnerability from their respective fields through an initial knowledge exchange workshop, monthly review meetings and through contributing to the development of the website and the exhibition. Through all these the research will develop a prototypical model of ethical film praxis for digital arts and media researchers and practitioners, for broader application for the third sector but also as the foundation for further research development and in particular for the larger project that this pilot study initiates.

数字电影技术，以其看似亲密和无限的能力，为越来越多的观众上演他人的痛苦，改变了观看者和脆弱的其他人之间的遭遇。虽然这种“伦理”遭遇是电影理论、媒体和艺术辩论中大量讨论的主题，但研究人员尚未充分考虑数字化的影响，从业者缺乏详细的伦理准则，远远超出了同意或良好实践的基本问题。这项研究探讨并反思了数字技术的使用如何改变我们对人类脆弱性的参与、理解和应对。在这项试点研究中，该团队将与一群脆弱的成年人合作，这些人在伯明翰Erdington的John Taylor临终关怀中心患有绝症，共同创作数字电影。这个电影制作项目与艺术治疗和临终关怀团队联系在一起，并得到他们的信息，将为参与者提供即时的治疗益处，但也将对所有利益相关者产生持久的影响，通过将作为研究的一部分开发的数字空间-在线互动网站和展览-并将这些电影和材料带给更广泛的新观众。伦理问题是这项研究的核心，不仅仅是因为它涉及弱势成年人，而是因为它依赖于电影理论，教育和艺术实践以及全球伦理辩论中关于调解他人痛苦的伦理讨论。由从业人员和研究人员组成的多学科团队将共同努力，通过初步知识交流研讨会、每月审查会议以及通过为网站和展览的开发做出贡献，确定、分享和应用各自领域中与人类脆弱性有关的固有道德问题。通过所有这些研究将为数字艺术和媒体研究人员和从业者开发一个道德电影实践的原型模型，以更广泛地应用于第三部门，同时也作为进一步研究开发的基础，特别是这项试点研究启动的更大项目。