Art Maps - Telling Tales of Engagement

艺术地图-讲述参与的故事旨在进一步“讲述”艺术地图研究项目对更广泛和不同的受众的影响。艺术地图是地平线数字经济研究（诺丁汉大学）、泰特（泰特学习、泰特在线和泰特研究）和埃克塞特大学媒体中心之间的合作研究项目，旨在探索艺术、地点和移动技术。泰特美术馆大约三分之一的藏品，包括近7万件作品，已经用地点信息（通常是所代表的地点）建立了索引。对于一些作品来说，这些信息是非常具体的，但在许多情况下，它是非常普遍的，只涉及一个城市，地区或主要的地理特征。“艺术地图”计划旨在通过公众提供信息，提高与这些作品相关的地理数据的质量，并获得新的见解，了解人们如何使用移动技术通过艺术来了解他们的环境，以及如何通过与位置和地图相关的个人历史来了解艺术。通过查看与艺术品相关的网站，用户对网站和艺术都变得更加熟悉，探索艺术品与它们所代表的网站之间的联系或不同，网站如何随着时间的推移而变化，以及网站如何被不同的艺术家所代表和体验。在2012年的过程中，艺术地图网站和一个移动应用程序被开发出来，允许人们将艺术品与他们日常生活中遇到的地方、地点和环境联系起来。重要的是，新软件使观众能够探索场地、地点、环境、表现和记忆的想法，既可以是自己的，也可以是合作的（例如，家庭、朋友和学校）。2012年4月和10月，我们分别在伦敦泰特美术馆（Tate Britain）举办了两场研讨会，探讨了作为观众参与机制的艺术映射。初步结果似乎很有希望，并表明进一步向更广泛和不同的受众传播该项目的价值。因此，为了进一步“讲述”艺术地图的故事，并通过艺术地图应用程序的支持，我们计划：组织针对数字观众的在线活动，以及泰特画廊内的活动（例如在“观看”展览的背景下）；与市民共同设计艺术径；通过互动活动让研究界参与进来。通过在其他活动（例如科学节）中展示艺术地图，也将获得更广泛的公众参与。

Art Maps - Telling Tales of Engagement aims to further 'tell the story' of the impact of the Art Maps research project to a wider and differentiated audience.Art Maps is a collaborative research project between Horizon Digital Economy Research (University of Nottingham), Tate (Tate Learning, Tate Online and Tate Research) and the Centre of Intermedia at the University of Exeter, exploring art, place and mobile technology. About one third of the Tate collection, comprising almost 70,000 works, has been indexed with information about locations, typically the site represented. For some works this information is quite specific but in many cases it is quite general, referring only to a city, region or major geographical feature. The Art Maps project aims to improve the quality of the geographical data relating to these works, with members of the public contributing information, as well as to gain new insights into how people use mobile technology to understand their environment through art, and art through their personal histories in relation to location and mapping. By looking at a site in relation to artworks, users become more familiar with both the site and the art, explore how artworks relate to or differ from the sites they represent, how sites have changed over time, and how sites have been represented and experienced by different artists.Over the course of 2012, Art Maps web and a mobile application were developed, allowing people to relate artworks to the places, sites and environments they encounter in daily life. Importantly, the new software enables audiences to explore ideas of site, place and location, environment, representation and memory, both on their own and collaboratively (for example, families, friends and schools). Art mapping, as audience engagement mechanism, was investigated through two workshops, held respectively in April and in October 2012 at Tate Britain in London. The preliminary results seem promising, and suggest a value for a further dissemination of the project to a wider and differentiated audience.So, to further 'tell the story' of Art Maps, and through the support of Art Maps applications, we plan: to organise online events targeted at digital audiences, as well as Tate in-gallery activities (e.g. in the context of the "Looking at the View" exhibition); to co-design art-trails with the public; to involve the research community through interactive events. Broader public engagement will be also attained through the Art Maps presentation to other events (e.g. Science Festivals).