Latin(o) American Digital Art: Exhibitions and Audience-Participation Workshops

这个项目是在我的AHRC奖学金的基础上进行的，重点是拉丁美洲的在线文化制作人如何在他们的作品中代表拉丁美洲的关键地点。在对《我的奖学金》进行研究的过程中，我发现了三个特别的趋势：第一，战术性媒体的实践，拉丁美洲(O)的新媒体艺术家使用数字技术来对抗纹理；第二，在线技术经常被用来代表线下场所；第三，新媒体艺术将数字参与与线下干预结合在一起。这三个发现现在形成了目前的提议，这将使我能够将这些发现传达给广泛的利益相关者，并在一系列研讨会、合作活动和展览中将这些概念付诸实践。这个新提议的项目建立在我之前研究的基础上，但超出了学术研究的领域。在这一年中，将举办一系列形式的合作、参与和影响活动，有4个主要群体参加：第三部门社区媒体组织；美术馆和博物馆；艺术家和文化制作人；以及观众和观众。该项目的目的是，首先，在以前的奖学金中审查的数字艺术与其他地区和国家背景之间建立相互联系，使拉丁美洲(O)美洲新媒体艺术家和利物浦第三部门合作媒体项目之间能够交流思想。其次，该项目旨在培养和展示超越文化艺术实践常规轮廓的艺术作品，鼓励参与式数字艺术作品，使观众能够成为积极的共同创作者。第三，该项目旨在弥合社交媒体和文化艺术实践之间的差距，鼓励反思使用社交媒体作为艺术和策展实践的潜在反馈循环。第四，该项目旨在解决英国新媒体节策展实践方面的现有差距，目前拉丁美洲(O)美国人的代表不足，从而提高这些艺术家的形象，将他们的作品带给英国观众，并为他们的实践提供创新的参与形式。为了实现这些目标，该项目计划在11个月的时间内组织一系列活动。这些活动包括在利物浦大学和FACT美术馆联合举办的为期两个月的艺术家驻场计划；艺术家创作的一件原创艺术品；3名被邀请的艺术家在较短的10天内访问；在2014年利物浦独立双年展上举办的题为对话中的城市的展览；以及与利物浦社区媒体项目、实践中的退伍军人、TenantSpin和自由手共同举办的一系列主题工作坊。该项目还将在全年试用利用社交媒体的不限成员名额参与性受众平台，这些平台将融入上述讲习班、展览和驻地，但也将在这些活动之后继续下去。该项目还包括3项书面产出，首先是独立的利物浦2014双年度城市对话展览的方案说明，其中将包括对艺术家的采访、关于他们实践的背景信息以及对展览中的作品的介绍。第二份书面作品是针对一般观众的展览回顾卷，包括解释背景的介绍性作品、对艺术家的采访、与第三部门组织的对话、对正在进行的作品的观察和作品的彩色照片。第三份书面输出将是一份简短的政策文件，内容涉及FACT、独立利物浦双年展和其他新媒体和当代艺术场馆，总结了项目过程中的主要发现。

This project follows on from my AHRC Fellowship which focussed on how Latin(o) American online cultural producers represent key locations in Latin America in their works. In the course of researching my Fellowship, which fell under the AHRC's Digital Transformations highlight, I identified 3 particular trends: firstly, the practices of tactical media, whereby Latin(o) American new media artists employ digital technologies against the grain; secondly, the fact that online technologies are often employed to represent offline place; and thirdly, that new media art combines digital participation with offline intervention. These 3 findings now inform the current proposal, which will enable me to communicate these findings to a wide range of stakeholders and to put into practice these concepts in a series of workshops, collaborative events and exhibitions.This new proposed project builds upon my previous research, but moves beyond the realm of academic research. Over the course of the year, a series of forms of collaboration, engagement and impact will be held involving 4 principal groups: third sector community media organizations; art galleries and museums; artists and cultural producers; and spectators and audiences. The project aims, firstly, to draw out interconnections between the digital art examined in the previous Fellowship and other regional and national contexts, enabling the sharing of ideas between Latin(o) American new media artists and third sector collaborative media projects in Liverpool. Secondly, the project aims to foster and exhibit art works that reach out beyond the usual contours of cultural-artistic practice, encouraging participatory digital art works with spectators enabled as active co-creators. Thirdly, the project aims to bridge the gap between social media and cultural-artistic practice to encourage reflective use of social media as potential feedback loops for artistic and curatorial practice.Fourthly, the project aims to address the existing gap in curatorial practice in new media festivals in the UK, in which Latin(o) Americans are currently under-represented, and so raise the profile of these artists, bring their work to a UK audience, and provide for innovative forms of engagement with their practice.In order to achieve these aims, the project plans a series of activities structured over the course of an 11-month period. These include a 2-month Artist in Residence Scheme, held jointly at the University of Liverpool and FACT art gallery; an original artwork developed by the artist; a visit of 3 further Invited Artists for a shorter, 10-day period; an exhibition, entitled Cities in Dialogue, at the Independents Liverpool Biennial, 2014; and a series of shared themed workshops with the Liverpool-based community media projects, Veterans in Practice, Tenantspin and Freehand. The project will also trial throughout the year open-ended participatory audience platforms making use of social media, which will be integrated into the workshops, exhibition and Residency mentioned above, but also continuing beyond these. The project also includes 3 written outputs, comprising firstly the Programme Notes to accompany the Cities in Dialogue exhibition for the Independents Liverpool Biennial 2014, which will include interviews with the artists, contextual information about their practice, and an introduction to the works in the exhibition. The second written output is a Retrospective volume on the exhibition targeted at a general audience, and including introductory pieces explaining the context, interviews with the artists, conversations with the third sector organizations, observations of the works in progress and colour photographs of the works. The third written output will be a short Policy Document for FACT, the Independents Liverpool Biennial and other new media and contemporary art venues, summing up the main findings during the course of the project.