ICC Lab: Expanding practice-led capability in the Creative Arts

ICC 实验室：扩大创意艺术领域的实践主导能力

• 批准号: AH/X009874/1
• 负责人: Sarah Whatley
• 金额: $ 45.48万
• 依托单位: Coventry University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX009874%2F1
• 关键词: ICC; Lab; Expanding; practice; led

The Institute for Creative Cultures is a newly created specialist research facility in the Arts & Humanities at Coventry University. It brings together a vibrant academic community devoted to practice-led research in the visual arts, dance, curation, the moving image, creative AI, and photography, together with technologists supporting research and development activities and artists engaging in post-studio work with communities. "ICC Lab: Expanding practice-led capability in the Creative Arts" is building on the pioneering work of our academic community operating at the intersection of the creative arts and technology. The Institute, designed as an experimental 21st century research lab for the Creative Arts, integrates in a single bespoke building R&D facilities, performance studios, labs and exhibition areas for its academic community to work together both to overcome disciplinary boundaries and experiment with advanced digital technologies. This novel approach to practice-led research has already produced significant new outputs. Nonetheless, it requires continuous investment in ICC's equipment and digital infrastructure for practice-led research to maintain its current momentum while also expanding its contribution to the study of complex contemporary issues. In a recent infrastructure review, the Institute has identified significant vulnerabilities in its existing production and display equipment provision including: (1) rapid obsolescence of key systems and devices restricting the breadth of our experimentation; (2) lack of interoperability of the equipment purchased through funded research; (3) gaps in the equipment and software needed to support emerging areas for research, with our transdisciplinary collaborations particularly affected.This application to renew and upgrade ICC's production and display equipment aims to bring about a step-change in our capabilities, future proofing our research infrastructure with state-of-the-art equipment. This will allow us to:(1) Extend our transdisciplinary collaborations and enhance our ability to produce and display high-quality practice-led research in the Arts & Humanities in order to provide solutions to contemporary societal problems through experimentation with new digital technologies.(2) Deepen our engagement with artists, digital practitioners and diverse communities in both Coventry and the wider region, in partnership with Coventry Biennial. Thus, building on the legacy of the Coventry City of Culture 2021 while also attracting visiting scholars and artists. The upgraded equipment and digital infrastructure will generate new research opportunities for the Institute for Creative Cultures. It will help us to explore new ways to remix and reuse our outputs, experiment across a range of different mediums, formats and genres, develop transdisciplinary methodologies based on the research ethos of the Creative Arts, and expand our collaborations with the creative and cultural economy. Finally, the proposed upgrade of our research facilities will help us fulfil our goal of making our Arts & Humanities research public. Equipping the ICC with state-of-the-art technologies for production and display will increase our visibility as a forward-thinking and innovative Institute for the Creative Arts, providing the conditions to widen our engagement with the local communities while also supporting our efforts to grow our footprint nationally and internationally.

创意文化研究所是考文垂大学艺术与人文学院新成立的专业研究机构。它汇集了一个充满活力的学术社区，致力于视觉艺术、舞蹈、策展、动态图像、创意人工智能和摄影等以实践为主导的研究，以及支持研发活动的技术专家和参与社区后期工作室工作的艺术家。“ICC实验室：在创意艺术中拓展实践主导的能力”是建立在我们在创意艺术和技术交叉领域的学术团体的开创性工作之上的。该研究所被设计为一个实验性的21世纪创意艺术研究实验室，它将研发设施、表演工作室、实验室和展览区域整合在一个定制的建筑中，为学术界共同努力，克服学科界限，实验先进的数字技术。这种以实践为主导的研究的新方法已经产生了重要的新成果。尽管如此，它需要对ICC的设备和数字基础设施进行持续投资，以进行以实践为主导的研究，以保持其目前的势头，同时扩大其对复杂当代问题研究的贡献。在最近的基础设施审查中，该研究所发现了其现有生产和显示设备供应中的重大漏洞，包括：(1)关键系统和设备的快速过时限制了我们实验的广度；(2)科研经费购买的设备缺乏互操作性；(3)支持新兴研究领域所需的设备和软件存在差距，我们的跨学科合作尤其受到影响。这项更新和升级ICC生产和显示设备的申请旨在为我们的能力带来一个台阶的变化，未来用最先进的设备证明我们的研究基础设施。这将使我们能够：(1)扩展我们的跨学科合作，提高我们在艺术与人文学科中生产和展示高质量实践主导研究的能力，以便通过实验新的数字技术为当代社会问题提供解决方案。(2)与考文垂双年展合作，深化与考文垂及更广泛地区的艺术家、数字从业者和不同社区的合作。因此，在2021考文垂文化之城的遗产基础上，同时也吸引了访问学者和艺术家。升级后的设备和数字基础设施将为创意文化研究所带来新的研究机会。它将帮助我们探索新的方法来重新组合和再利用我们的产出，在一系列不同的媒介，格式和类型上进行实验，基于创意艺术的研究精神开发跨学科的方法，并扩大我们与创意和文化经济的合作。最后，我们建议升级我们的研究设施，将有助于我们实现我们的目标，使我们的艺术与人文研究公开。为国际会展中心配备最先进的生产和展示技术，将提高我们作为一个具有前瞻性和创新性的创意艺术学院的知名度，为扩大我们与当地社区的接触提供条件，同时也支持我们在国内和国际上扩大我们的足迹。

项目成果

Introduction: Studies in Practice as Research

简介：作为研究的实践研究

• DOI: 10.3366/drs.2023.0399
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Dance Research
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Whatley S

Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics

• DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580803
• 发表时间: 2023-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: Feng Zhou;Steve Benford;Sarah Whatley;Kate Marsh;I. Ashcroft;Tanja Erhart;Welly O’Brien;P. Tennent

Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance

个性化假肢：残疾和舞蹈的数字干预

• DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2023.2196884
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
• 作者: Whatley S