XRtists: Artists Extending Realities

艺术家扩展现实将召集，委托和支持新的包容性艺术家浪潮，制作和分享非凡的沉浸式作品。我们的提案汇集了两所大学，四个生产场地和全英国范围内的专业知识，这些组织在包容、培训、展示和研究方面具有专业知识。合作伙伴-无处不在的媒体工作室（分水岭，UWE布里斯托尔，布里斯托尔大学，英格兰），威尔士千年中心（威尔士），神经中心（北爱尔兰），Cryptic（苏格兰），跨界实验室（谢菲尔德），Unlimited， XR多样性倡议和沉浸英国-通过持续的承诺团结起来，支持艺术家和观众，同时建立行业公平。我们共同带来成功实施该计划所需的实践经验。在三年内，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。我们将为来自英国四个国家和多种语言的各种背景的艺术家创造包容性的机会，使他们的创造力脱颖而出。通过一项综合研究计划，我们将收集和分享见解，并学习最适合更广泛行业的方法。我们将建立一个强大的实践和展览网络，在其中一个独特的英国沉浸式艺术部门可以出现和蓬勃发展。英国首先对沉浸式内容制作进行了早期投资，然后是XR基础设施和技能。该计划将为艺术家提供联合支持，使他们能够将内容和技术结合起来，并考虑到目的和受众。为了实现现有投资的潜力，艺术家（特别是那些目前在该领域代表性不足的艺术家）需要获得工具，培训和实验专业知识，了解该领域的制作人的支持，更好的发行路线和展示机会，以及为沉浸式艺术建立信心和批判性的观众发展。我们相信，XR技术的独特特性为艺术、文化、经济和社会影响创造了机会。沉浸式工具使艺术家和观众能够居住在流动的角色中，并与彼此一起塑造丰富的故事世界。具身体验可以对人产生深远的影响；让他们以一种发自内心的、持久的方式与彼此、与环境、与故事互动。这激发了新的想象形式，这是一个分裂和濒临灭绝的星球迫切需要的。混合和社交的XR为物理和数字空间的融合提供了新的方式。由于地理位置、缺乏经济机会和/或残疾而与艺术隔绝的人们可以找到有意义的方式来创造和联系文化体验。如果得到精心的支持，新的商业模式就会出现，吸引那些可能不会参与“主流”艺术的观众，并在最大限度地减少碳影响的同时产生新的分销路线。通过负责任的研发方法，在每个阶段都考虑包容性、可持续性和道德，我们将释放XR的潜在潜力，建立一个能够在与更广泛的生态系统的再生伙伴关系中蓬勃发展的行业。艺术家扩展现实将作为一个创造性的催化剂，提高知名度和雄心，并在三年内产生一种文化，成为未来20年的基础。

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.