Technology, Exchange and Flow Writing Workshops at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

“后续”旨在在2018年高知木兹里斯双年展上开启艺术家与观众之间“交流与流动”的主题，并通过写作工作坊活动，让公众探索艺术作品在公开展示时所发挥的感知装置、体验和联想。Kochi-Muziris双年展对举办计划中的活动特别感兴趣，因为该活动被称为“人民双年展”，旨在吸引新观众参与当代国际艺术。后续项目还将与莱昂纳多/国际艺术、科学和技术协会合作，鼓励来自印度非学术界的新作品。写作工作坊的参与者将在双年展和印度空间研究组织拥有的电视媒体档案的背景下回应“交流与流动”的主题，这些档案是由艺术家、空间科学家和农村观众共同制作的20世纪70年代的材料。该项目来自为期三年的HERA联合研究计划项目“技术交流与流动：艺术媒体实践与商业应用”（TEF）。它研究了在技术创新的关键时刻，如当代游戏和早期电视，艺术媒体实践与视听媒体的工业/商业利用之间的关系。该研究强调了实验性媒体实践如何融入主流广告，从而产生积极的观看效果。这些发现在维也纳美术馆举办的“Play and Prosume”展览上进行了分享，并在获得额外的影响力资助后，与两家主要的电影和电视档案馆——荷兰声音与视觉研究所和荷兰眼睛电影研究所——合作举办了为期两天的名为“Advertising the Sublime”的知识转移活动。观众在这些活动中的反馈影响了档案的收集和保存政策。自那次事件以来，CI对印度空间研究组织（ISRO）档案中的大量电视材料进行了新的博士后研究，揭示了在新技术（便携式摄像机）的推动下，主流媒体和实验媒体制作人之间的一种类似的交流和流动模式。CI在印度开展了一项为期一年的博士后研究，以调查这些联系，并在之前的2016年Kochi-Muziris双年展上召开了一次研讨会，题为“与科学技术的创造性相遇：遗产、想象、未来”，该研讨会得到PI的支持。电视材料是ISRO在20世纪70年代的卫星通信试点项目的产物，该项目旨在将新的电视技术引入贫困的农村观众。鉴于CI的新研究涉及ISRO项目中创造性从业者的参与，包括电影制作人，其中一些人也保持着前卫的实验实践，后续项目的目的是分享和扩展TEF项目的发现，并将其推广到印度确定的两个背景下，以积极地与观众合作制作。该提案将阐明“交流与流动”的合作框架，与Kochi-Muziris双年展和ISRO电视档案馆的利他主义关切相一致。这将影响两家机构未来构思和与受众合作的方式。在分享TEF的成果和经验及其知识交流成果方面，预计该项目将对当地产生重大影响，并具有可扩展性和可转移性。

The Follow-on aims to open up the theme of 'exchange and flow' between artists and audience to wide interpretations at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018 and through writing workshop activities allow the public to explore the perceptual apparatuses, experiences and associations at play when artworks are publically presented. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is especially interested in hosting the planned activities as the event, known as at the 'People's Biennale' works towards bringing new audiences to engage with contemporary international art. The Follow-on will also partner with Leonardo/International Society for Arts, Science and Technology to encourage new writing from non-academics in India. Writing workshop participants will respond to the theme of 'exchange and flow' in the context of the Biennale and an archive of television media owned by the Indian Space Research Organisation of 1970s material co-produced by artists, space scientists and rural audiences. The project emerges from the three-year HERA Joint Research Programme project 'Technology Exchange and Flow: Artistic Media Practices and Commercial Application' (TEF). It examined the relationship between artistic media practices and industrial/commercial exploitation of audio-visual media at key moments of technological innovation, such as contemporary gaming and early television. The research highlighted how experimental media practices crossing into mainstream adverts produced proactive viewing. These findings were shared at the exhibition 'Play and Prosume' held at the Vienna Kunsthalle and, following the award of an additional impact grant, at a two-day knowledge transfer event called 'Advertising the Sublime' held in collaboration with two major film and television archives, The Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision and Eye Film Institute, Netherlands. The feedback from audiences at these events impacted the collection and preservation policy of the archives.Since that event, new postdoctoral research by the CI concerning a body of television material in the archives of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), revealed a similar pattern of exchange and flow between mainstream and experimental media producers, facilitated by new technology (portable video cameras). The CI conducted a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in India to investigate these links and convened a symposium at the previous Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 titled 'Creative Encounters with Science and Technology: Legacies, Imaginaries, Futures', which was supported by the PI. The television material is the product of ISRO's well-documented satellite communications pilot project in the 1970s that aimed to steer the new technology of television to rural under-privileged audiences. In the light of the CI's new research concerning the involvement of creative practitioners in the ISRO project, including filmmakers, some of whom also maintained avant-garde experimental practices the intention of the Follow-on is to share and extend the findings of the TEF project to the two contexts identified in India to bring active co-production with audiences to the fore. The proposal will articulate collaborative frameworks of 'exchange and flow' consistent with the altruistic concerns of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and the ISRO television archive. It will impact on both institutions in the ways they conceptualise and collaborate with audiences in the future. In sharing the results and experiences of TEF and its Knowledge Exchange results this project is expected to have significant local impact as well as scalability and transferability to other contexts.