Voices in the Gallery-Phase 2

我们跨越太空将我们联系在一起，我们的声音以更加多样化和创新的方式相互传递。新兴技术正在产生新的概念，即“说话”和拥有发言权意味着什么。社交距离让人们对我们远程交流的方式产生了新的关注。它还给熊市带来了新的压力--突显出个人、社区和组织突然完全依赖的渠道存在的差距。这种加速过渡到通过数字中介的语音和文本进行对话、课堂、表演、医疗咨询、商业和关系，改变了我们对声乐的文化体验。危机引发了大规模的适应。辅助技术--合成语音助手、文本到语音程序、自动转录、隐藏字幕--长期以来一直被用来将声音翻译成文本，反之亦然。近年来，这些系统已进入主流消费者的使用：在某些领域增强包容性，在其他领域消除获取障碍。所有这些创新都是由当代艺术家注册和创造性地处理的，他们的作品已经质疑了这种扩展的、多模式的声乐的潜力。画廊2中的声音扩展了原始项目对当代艺术中的画外音的理论，以吸引创意行业的利益相关者参与到对当今“声音”转变性质的跨部门探索中。通过与创意产业组织、咨询访问机构和创意从业者建立伙伴关系，它提出了以下问题：a)新的通信、远程访问和辅助技术工具如何改变我们对文本和语音、连接和遏制、存在、缺席和孤立的体验？B)艺术家和机构如何利用艺术扩大的声音来刺激更具包容性的艺术环境的发展？2号展厅的声音将调动“视觉”艺术的多感官、技术中介性质，以改变文化/创意产业对无障碍的概念。-新委托的艺术作品将探索语音技术的影响，并激活它们的潜力，以生产具有根本包容性的艺术作品。-一个以地理和数字方式分布的展览和活动计划将激励机构、从业者、专业人士和当地公众的网络聚集在一起-虚拟/面对面-考虑当今声乐状况的变化。-文章和演示文稿将分析这些技术的文化、社会和政治影响。-讲座诗集将通过批判性创造性和形式上的创新手段探索说和写之间的关系、共存和延迟连接。-通过与社会实践声音艺术家进行以实践为基础的研究合作并与音频描述专家VoalEyes协商制作的音频指南，将加强访问并实现远程参与。-与一名自由职业艺术教育者与参与专业人员协商开发了一套教育材料，将有助于教师和学童在日常交流中探索扩大声乐。-特定地点的社区共同创造项目将在三个地点激活参与者，探索公共空间自动发声的体验。-通过与Daly&Lyon和英国无障碍格式协会三方合作开发的包容性设计的无障碍侧面小册子，将促进受众通过印刷和数字格式参与项目概念、艺术品和调查线索。-共同创建的包容性艺术设计工具包将向创意行业专业人员分享包容性平面设计方面的见解、模型解决方案和传播最佳实践。

Connecting us across space, our voices reach each other in ever more diverse and innovative ways. Emerging technologies are generating new conceptions of what it means to 'speak' and to have a voice. Social distancing has brought new attention to the means by which we communicate remotely. It also brings new pressures to bear-highlighting gaps in the conduits upon which individuals, communities and organisations suddenly and solely rely. This accelerated transition to conducting conversations, classes, performances, medical consultations, business and relationships via digitally mediated speech and text transforms our cultural experience of vocality. Crisis has provoked mass adaptation. Later, it will necessitate reflection.Assistive technologies--synthetic voice assistants, text-to-speech programmes, automated transcription, closed captions--have long been used to translate sound into text and vice versa. In recent years, these systems have passed into mainstream consumer use: enhancing inclusivity in some domains and bringing obstacles to access into relief in others. All of these innovations are registered and creatively processed by contemporary artists whose work already interrogates the potentiality of this expanded, multimodal vocality. Voices in the Gallery 2 extends the original project's theorisation of voiceover in contemporary art to engage stakeholders across the creative industries in a cross-sectoral exploration of the transformed nature of 'voice' today. Through partnership with creative industries organisations, advisory access agencies and creative practitioners it asks: a) How are new tools of communication, remote-access and assistive technologies changing our experiences of text and voice, connection and containment, presence, absence and isolation? b) How can art's expanded vocality be harnessed by artists and institutions to incite the development of a more inclusive art environment? Voices in the Gallery 2 will mobilise the multisensorial, technologically-mediated nature of 'visual' art to transform how the cultural/creative industries conceive of accessibility. -Newly commissioned artworks will explore the implications of voice technologies, and activate their potential to produce radically inclusive artworks. -A geographically and digitally distributed exhibition and event programme will galvanise a network of institutions, practitioners, professionals and local publics to gather-virtually/in-person-to consider the changed state of vocality today. -Articles and presentations will analyse the cultural, social and political ramifications of these technologies. -A collection of lecture-poems will explore the relations between speaking and writing, co-presence and delayed connection through critical-creative and formally innovative means. -Access will be enhanced and remote engagement enabled by an audio-guide produced through practice-based research collaboration with a social practice sound artist and in consultation with audio-description specialists VocalEyes. -An education pack developed with a freelance arts educator in consultation with engagement professionals will facilitate teachers and schoolchildren in exploring expanded vocality in everyday communication. -Site-specific community co-creation projects will activate participants in three locations to explore experiences of automated voices in public space. -An inclusively designed accessible broadside pamphlet, developed through tripartite collaboration with Daly & Lyon and the UK Association for Accessible Formats, will facilitate audiences to engage via print and digital formats with the project concept, artworks and investigative strands. -A co-created Inclusive Design for the Arts Toolkit will share insights, model solutions and disseminate best practice in inclusive graphic design to creative industries professionals.