Performativity/ Place / Space: Locating Grid Technologies

作为布里斯托尔大学研究主题“表演性|地点|空间”的一部分，“定位网格技术”研讨会和研讨会调查了网格技术的潜力，为分布式、创造性的研究实践产生对空间和时间的新理解。利用访问网格（AG）作为一个灵活的、交互式的视听网络环境，该项目将来自英国、美国和日本的混合模式研究人员聚集在一起，生成、分析和再利用分布式实践主导研究的视听文件。该系列研讨会成功的关键是PI、Angela Piccini博士、布里斯托大学学习和研究技术研究所、电子研究中心和教育研究生院之间有效的跨学科合作伙伴关系，此外还有Memetic和曼彻斯特大学的接入网格支持中心。所有事件都被记录在曼彻斯特大学的Memetic服务器上。Memetic是jiscc资助的虚拟研究环境（VRE），旨在通过高级会议支持和信息管理工具扩展AG的使用。它允许记录、分析和重播股东大会会议。在“定位网格技术”项目中，我们探索了Memetic在分布式创意研究中的潜力。第一个研讨会是“分发：介绍电子科学的创意和表演艺术和媒体”。关键目标是确定促进艺术和电子科学之间分布式合作的核心主题。当天的第一部分向与会者介绍了网格技术及其在艺术中的潜在应用。当天的下半部分通过分布式表演展示了AG和Memetic：一个即兴管弦乐队在一个AG节点表演，一个舞者在另一个节点表演，表演通过Memetic中的Compendium软件应用程序进行映射。特别值得关注的是AG和Memetic的技术以及AG在会议室内的物理表达产生对表演空间的特殊理解的方式。“连接：PARIP资源管理器、语义网和用于创意、表演艺术和媒体的数据网格”的重点是使用在第一次研讨会上生成并存储在Memetic服务器上的视听数据对象，以开发通过语义网数据库应用程序将它们连接起来的方法。在介绍了语义网和非电子科学数据网格（如点对点文件共享）之后，与会者使用了第一次研讨会的memeticrecords来探索协作标记，旨在促进在线环境中分布式性能文档数据的定位和重用。最后一场研讨会，“地点：网格技术对创意和表演艺术与媒体中空间和地点表演性的影响”，使用了第二次研讨会的标记视听数据对象，探索如何将这些数据有效地用于进一步的创意研究。在对创造性实践进行协作分类的实践会议之后，布里斯托尔AG节点的一组研究人员与南安普顿、伦敦和曼彻斯特的其他研究人员会面，进行了一场涉及舞者、音乐家、诗人、表演者、视觉艺术家、电影制作人和数字艺术家的分布式表演。最后一次讲习班的目的是测试现有技术的极限，以便为其他用户提供有用的技术指导，并为今后的研究提出一系列问题。最后一项活动是AG研讨会，来自日本的舞者、犹他州的戏剧制作人、英国的网真和新媒体艺术家分享了网格技术的经验，并将其与现有的分布式创意研究技术进行了比较。研讨会演讲的一个特别焦点是网格技术在实践主导的研究中对“地点和空间的位置”的影响。

As part of the University of Bristol research theme Performativity | Place | Space, the 'Locating Grid Technologies' workshops and symposium investigated the potential of Grid technologies to produce new understandings of space and time for distributed, creative research practices.Using Access Grid (AG) as a flexible, interactive audio-visual networking environment the project drew together mixed-mode researchers from the UK, US and Japan to generate, analyse and re-use audio-visual documents of distributed practice-led research. Key to the success of the workshop series was the effective interdisciplinary partnership among the PI, Dr Angela Piccini, and University of Bristol's Institute for Learning and Research Technology, its Centre for e-Research and the Graduate School of Education, in addition to Memetic and the Access Grid Support Centre at University of Manchester.All events were recorded on to the Memetic server at University of Manchester. Memetic is a JISC-funded VRE (virtual research environment) designed to extend uses of AG through advanced meeting support and information management tools. It allows for recording, analysis and replay of AG meetings. In the 'Locating Grid Technologies' project we explored the potential of Memetic in distributed creative research.The first workshop was 'Distribution: an introduction to e-Science for the creative and performing arts and media'. A key objective was to determine themes central to facilitating distributed collaborations between the arts and e-Science. The first part of the day introduced participants to Grid technologies and their potential application in the arts. The second half of the day demonstrated AG and Memetic through distributed performance: an improvisational orchestra performed in one AG node, a dancer performed in another node and the performance was mapped through the Compendium software application within Memetic. Of specific concern was the way in which the technologies of AG and Memetic and the physical expression of AG within the meeting rooms produce particular understandings of performance spaces.'Connection: PARIP Explorer, Semantic Web and data grids for the creative and performing arts and media' focused on using the audio-visual data objects generated at the first workshop and stored on the Memetic server to develop ways in which they might be linked via a Semantic Web database application. Following presentations on Semantic Web and non e-Science data grids such as peer-to-peer file sharing, participants used the Memeticrecordings of the first workshop to explore collaborative tagging aimed at facilitating the location and reuse of distributed performance documentation data in online environments.The final workshop, 'Location: the impact of Grid technologies on the performativity of space and place in the creative and performing arts and media', used the tagged audio-visual data objects from the second workshop to explore how these might productively be used in further creative research.Following a practical session on collaborative classifying of creative practices, a group of researchers in the Bristol AG node met with others in Southampton, London and Manchester in a distributed performance that involved dancers, musicians, poets, performers, visual artists, film makers and digital artists. The aim of the final workshop was to test the limits of the available technology in order to generate useful technical guidance for other users and to produce a series of questions for future research.The final event was an AG symposium that brought dancers from Japan, theatre makers from Utah and telepresence and new media artists from the UK to share their experiences of Grid technologies as they compare with existing technologies for distributed creative research. A specific focus of the symposium presentations was the impact of Grid technologies on the 'place of place and space' in practice-led research.