In Place of War - a digital platform for artists in conflict zones

该申请是为成功的人权委员会资助的“代替战争”（IPOW）项目提供后续资金，该项目旨在开发一个在线平台，让艺术家分享对冲突的创造性回应。它基于与两家新科技公司的创新关系：Yoomee和AudioBoo。前者专门从事在线网站和网络开发，特别强调社会企业和社区发展。他们将成为项目的技术“供应商”，之所以被选中，是因为他们的合作风格和对计划的整体愿景的承诺。后者是twitter的音频版本，在最近的“阿拉伯之春”期间，作为在利比亚和埃及生活和工作的“公民记者”和社会评论员的流行形式而备受关注。AudioBoo是一个项目合作伙伴，因此贡献了所有的时间和资源。他们认为这是他们已经开创的技术的一个令人兴奋的发展，并有兴趣探索不同的用户如何开发和扩展他们的服务。该项目将与两家公司合作，创建一个综合在线平台，让生活在冲突地区的艺术家和创意评论员上传、记录和分享对动乱的艺术回应。IPOW目前有三个在线资源：战区战区项目的数字化资料档案、项目网站和社交网络平台。这一举措旨在将这三者结合起来，然后大幅扩大它们的覆盖范围。社交媒体的日益普及，以及它在最近的地方（例如：互联网）中发挥的关键作用。英国骚乱)和国际冲突(例如：利比亚)创造了一个环境，国际评论员现在使用社交媒体来了解冲突的不同方面。Twitter提要、facebook帖子、在线博客和有声读物报告现在是知识流通过程的重要组成部分。冲突地区以外的记者，以及学生、学者和艺术界，都对直接受到动乱影响和参与动乱的人们的故事和不同反应感兴趣，本项目旨在将现有的IPOW资源和网络与这些国际发展相结合。在“阿拉伯之春”期间，艺术家们被广泛用作报道埃及、利比亚和叙利亚局势的第一手资料来源，我们相信，为艺术界提供一个易于访问的网站，他们可以上传材料（视觉、音频和文本），并搜索其他人的反应，这可能是新媒体环境中的一个创新平台。利用IPOW现有的网络，以及技术合作伙伴（包括社交媒体顾问委员会）的经验，该提案旨在创建一个可访问的在线资源，使其成为艺术家分享他们的作品和战争经历的卓越网站。同时，它的目标是成为那些寻求找到第一手的“创造性”回应冲突转向的人的门户。

This application is for follow-on funding for the successful AHRC funded In Place of War (IPOW) project to develop an online platform for artists to share creative responses to conflict. It is based upon an innovative relationship with two new technology companies: Yoomee and AudioBoo. The former specialises in online web and network development, with a particular emphasis on social enterprise and community development. They will be the technology 'supplier' for the project and have been chosen because of their collaborative style of working and a commitment to the overall vision of the initiative. The latter is an audio version of twitter that has come into prominence as a popular format for 'citizen journalists' and social commentators living and working in Libya and Egypt during the recent 'Arab Spring'. AudioBoo are a project partner and are therefore contributing all time and resources in kind. They view this as an exciting development of the technology they have already pioneered and are interested in exploring how different users develop and expand their service. The project will work with both companies to create an integrated online platform that allows artists and creative commentators living in conflict zones to upload, document, and share artistic responses to unrest. IPOW currently has three online resources - an archive of digitised materials from theatre projects in war zones, a project web site and a social networking platform. This initiative seeks to combine all three and then substantially increase their reach. The rising popularity of social media, and the crucial role it has played in recent local (eg. the UK riots) and international conflicts (eg. Libya) has created an environment where international commentators now use social media to learn about different aspects of conflicts. Twitter feeds, facebook posts, online blogs and audioboo reports are now a vital part of knowledge circulation processes. Journalists outside conflict zones, as well as students, academics and the arts community, are interested in stories and different responses from people directly affected by and involved in unrest - and this project seeks to align existing IPOW resources and networks to these international developments. Artists have been widely used as first-hand sources for reporting on the situations in Egypt, Libya and Syria during the 'Arab Spring' - and we believe that an easily accessible site for the arts community, where they can upload material (visual, audio and text) and search the responses of others - could be an innovative platform in this new media environment. Drawing on IPOW's existing network, and on the experience of the technology partners (including a social media advisory board), this proposal, therefore, aims to create an accessible online resource that will become the pre-eminent site through which artists share their work and experiences of war. Simultaneously, it aims to become the portal to which those people seeking to locate first hand 'creative' responses to conflict turn.