XRtists: Artists Extending Realities

XRtists：延伸现实的艺术家

• 批准号: AH/Z505407/1
• 负责人: Verity McIntosh
• 金额: $ 752.88万
• 依托单位: University of the West of England
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505407%2F1
• 关键词: XRtists; Artists; Extending; Realities

Artists Extending Realities will convene, commission and support a new inclusive wave of artists to make and share extraordinary immersive work.Our proposal brings together two universities, four producing venues and UK-wide expertise from organisations with specialist expertise around inclusion, training, showcasing and research. The partners - Pervasive Media Studio (Watershed, UWE Bristol, University of Bristol, England), Wales Millennium Centre (Wales), Nerve Centre (Northern Ireland), Cryptic (Scotland), Crossover Labs (Sheffield), Unlimited, XR Diversity Initiative and Immerse UK - are united by an ongoing commitment to support artists and reach audiences while building equity in the sector. Collectively we bring the practical experience needed to successfully deliver this programme.In three years, we will commission over 200 artists to engage, experiment and explore the possibilities of immersive technology. We will create inclusive opportunities for artists of all backgrounds, from across the four nations and multiple languages of the UK to bring their creativity to the fore. Through an integrated programme of research, we will capture and share insight and learning about what works best for the wider sector. We will establish a powerful network of practice and exhibition within which a distinctive UK immersive arts sector can emerge and flourish.The UK made early investment into first immersive content production, then XR infrastructure and skills. This programme will offer joined up support for artists to make work that integrates content and technology with purpose and audience in mind. To realise the potential of existing investment, artists (especially those currently underrepresented in the sector) need access to tools, training and expertise for experimentation, support from producers who understand the field, better distribution routes and showcasing opportunities, and audience development that builds confidence and criticality into the immersive arts.We believe that the unique characteristics of XR technologies create opportunities for artistic, cultural, economic and societal impact. Immersive tools allow artists and audiences to inhabit fluid personas and shape rich storyworlds alongside one other. Embodied experiences can have a profound effect on people; engaging them with each other, with their environment and with stories in visceral and long lasting ways. This sparks new forms of imagining, desperately needed in a divided and endangered planet.Hybrid and social XR enable new ways of being together in physical and digital space. People who are isolated from the arts through geography, a lack of economic opportunity and/or disability can find meaningful ways to create and connect with cultural experiences. If carefully supported, new business models emerge, attracting audiences who may not have otherwise participated in 'mainstream' arts and generating new distribution routes while minimising carbon impact. Through a responsible approach to research and development, in which inclusion, sustainability and ethics are considered at every stage, we will unleash this latent potential of XR to build a sector that can thrive in regenerative partnership with the wider ecosystem.Artists Extending Realities will act as a creative catalyst, raising profile and ambition, and generating a culture in three years that becomes the foundation for the next twenty.

扩展现实的艺术家将召集，委托和支持新的包容性艺术家浪潮，以制作和分享非凡的沉浸式工作。我们的提案汇集了两所大学，四个生产场所和英国范围内的专业知识，这些组织围绕包容性，培训，展示和研究而提供专业知识。 The partners - Pervasive Media Studio (Watershed, UWE Bristol, University of Bristol, England), Wales Millennium Centre (Wales), Nerve Centre (Northern Ireland), Cryptic (Scotland), Crossover Labs (Sheffield), Unlimited, XR Diversity Initiative and Immerse UK - are united by an ongoing commitment to support artists and reach audiences while building equity in the sector.总的来说，我们带来了成功交付该程序的实际经验。三年内，我们将委托200多位艺术家参与，实验和探索沉浸式技术的可能性。我们将为所有背景的艺术家，从四个国家和英国多种语言中创造包容性的机会，以使他们的创造力脱颖而出。通过集成的研究计划，我们将捕获并分享洞察力，并了解最适合更广泛部门的方法。我们将建立一个强大的实践和展览网络，在该网络中，英国独特的沉浸式艺术领域可以出现和蓬勃发展。该计划将为艺术家提供支持，以制作将内容和技术与目的和受众群体相结合的作品。为了实现现有投资的潜力，艺术家（尤其是那些目前在该行业中人数不足的艺术家）需要获得工具，培训和专业知识以进行实验，从了解该领域的生产者的支持，更好的分配路线和展示机会以及为身临其境的艺术中建立信心和批判性的观众发展。我们相信，XR技术的独特特征为艺术技术创造了创造的机会，文化，经济，经济，经济，经济，经济，经济和社会。沉浸式工具使艺术家和观众能够居住在流体的角色中，并彼此塑造丰富的故事世界。体现的经历会对人们产生深远的影响。以内在的和持久的方式与他们相互互动，与他们的环境和故事。这引发了新形式的想象形式，在一个分裂和濒危的星球中迫切需要。杂种和社交XR可以在物理和数字空间中融为一体。通过地理学与艺术隔离的人，缺乏经济机会和/或残疾可以找到有意义的方法来创造和与文化经验联系。如果受到仔细支持，新的商业模式就会出现，吸引了可能没有参加“主流”艺术并生成新的分销路线的观众，同时最大程度地减少了碳影响力。通过在每个阶段考虑包容，可持续性和道德的负责任的研究和发展方法，我们将释放XR的潜力，建立一个可以与更广泛的生态系统再生合作伙伴关系壮成长的领域。扩展现实的艺术家将成为一种创造性的催化剂，在三年中成为三十岁的基础，并在三年中创造了一个创造性的催化剂。