Global Leadership of Women in Web 3 (GLoW3) (2020-2024)

GLoW3旨在询问，理解和展望女性，非二元和跨性别（W， NB和T）对Web 3.0屏幕媒体概念化，商业化和创造潜力的贡献。“Web 3.0”一词包含了一系列的概念、框架、技术和理想。它包含了世界构建和虚拟世界等概念；被称为语义网和物联网（IoT）的数据驱动框架；区块链和沉浸式现实（包括AR、VR和XR）等技术；以及诸如权力下放和互联网民主化之类的理想。Web 3.0的承诺和潜力尚未实现，这是一个关键的过渡时刻，未来是由公共媒体话语塑造的，这些话语由狭隘的声音和观点代表的夸张和修辞所主导。在任何以屏幕为基础的技术变革时刻，女性都作为主要的实验者和创新者站在最前沿——在技术和创造力碰撞的空间中开拓先锋。我们可以从现在挖掘出来的女性在早期电影制作和计算机技术方面的创新历史中看到这一点。这些历史还揭示了，随着技术的建立和商品化，女性的历史被迅速抹去，而男性先驱者的叙事占据了主导地位。NB和T人员的贡献不被承认。GLoW3试图干预和破坏这些规范过程，并捕捉发生的历史。它将通过一项同步分析来做到这一点，重点关注目前在Web 3.0前沿的基于屏幕的媒体中处于最高影响力和创造性创新前沿的W， NB和T人员。GLoW3涉及与这些来自不同全球背景（包括英国、欧洲、北美、澳大利亚和非洲）的个人直接合作，并将通过参与计划利用他们的专业知识和经验，该计划还旨在培养他们自己的全球领导能力。该项目由三个关键的交叉链组成，探讨Web 3.0驱动的基于屏幕的媒体：概念化、商业化和创造力。概念探究将为新的研究提供信息，从而加深对虚拟世界和世界构建概念的理解，并提出诸如世界构建在全球背景下意味着什么等关键问题。在塑造新的基于屏幕的技术中，夸张扮演了什么角色？ W、NB和T在塑造、影响和引领这些叙事方面的贡献是什么？Web 3.0的商业维度建立在区块链技术之上。这一调查分支将寻求通过具体的W， NB和t主导的倡议来批判性地研究这些问题，研究这些技术如何影响他们在不同全球背景下的经验现实，以及将创意产出分配为不可替代代币（nft）的复杂影响，包括对劳动实践和环境的影响。创意链将通过一个艺术家驻场计划来审视web 3.0新兴媒体形式的表现，该计划将针对边缘艺术家，最终将与国家美术馆和Gazelli艺术馆合作举办一场开创性的混合多地点展览：“web 3.0的女性：创新者、世界建设者和领导者”。该展览将于2024年国际妇女节启动，将汇集来自世界各地的创作者的新作品和现有的数字作品，这些作品利用融合物理与数字的Web 3.0技术，在新兴媒体的前沿进行创新。GLoW3旨在使Web 3.0的概念和实践以高度吸引人的方式为各种各样的受众所接受，并扩大和鼓励W、NB和T个人参与基于屏幕的技术创新的过程和实践。

GLoW3 seeks to interrogate, understand and foreground women, non-binary and trans (W, NB and T) contributions to the conceptualisation, commercialisation and creative potential of Web 3.0 screen-based media.The term 'Web 3.0' accounts for a range of concepts, frameworks, technologies and ideals. It encompasses concepts such as worldbuilding and the metaverse; data-driven frameworks known as the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT); technologies such as blockchain and immersive realities (including AR, VR and XR); as well as ideals such as decentralisation and the democratisation of the internet. The promise and potential of Web 3.0 has yet to be realised and this is a critical moment of transition where the future is being shaped by public media discourse dominated by hyperbole and rhetoric drawn from a narrow representation of voices and perspectives.At the advent of any technological screen-based transitionary moment, women have been at the forefront as lead experimenters and innovators - pioneering in spaces where technology and creativity collide. We can see this in the now excavated histories of women innovating in early film production and computer technologies. What these histories also reveal is that as the technology becomes established and commodified, women's histories are rapidly erased as narratives of male pioneers dominate. Contributions made by NB and T people are not acknowledged. GLoW3 seeks to intervene in and disrupt these normative processes and capture the history as it happens. It will do so through a synchronic analysis focussing on W, NB and T people who are currently working at the highest levels of influence and at the cutting-edges of creative innovation in screen-based media at the frontiers of Web 3.0.GLoW3 involves the direct collaboration with these individuals who originate from a diverse range of global contexts (including UK, Europe, North America, Australia and Africa) and will draw on their expertise and experiences through a programme of engagement which also aims to develop their own global leadership capabilities.The project is made up by three key intersecting strands of enquiry into Web 3.0 driven screen-based media: conceptualisation, commercialisation and creativity.The conceptual enquiry will inform new research which will deepen understandings of the concepts of the metaverse and worldbuilding, asking critical questions such as what does worldbuilding mean in a global context? What role does hyberbole play in shaping new screen-based technologies and what are the contributions of W, NB and T in shaping, influencing and leading these narratives? The commercial dimension of Web 3.0 is built on blockchain technologies. This branch of enquiry will seek to critically examine these through specific W, NB and T-led initiatives, examining how these technologies have impacted upon the realities of their experiences in different global contexts and the complex implications of distributing creative output as Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) including upon labour practices and the environment.The creative strand will examine the affordances of the emerging media forms of web 3.0 through an artist-in-residence scheme which will target marginalised artists, culminating in a ground-breaking hybrid, multi-sited exhibition: 'Women of Web 3.0: innovators, worldbuilders and leaders' in collaboration with National Gallery and Gazelli Art House. The exhibition, launching on International Women's Day 2024, will bring together new and existing digital artwork from creators across the world innovating at the leading edges of emerging media using Web 3.0 technologies which fuse the physical with the digital. GLoW3 seeks to make the concepts and practices of Web 3.0 accessible to a diverse range of audiences in highly engaging ways and to amplify and encourage participation of W, NB and T individuals in the processes and practices of screen-based technological innovation.