Voices in the Gallery-Phase 2

通过空间连接我们，我们的声音以更加多样化和创新的方式相互传播。新兴技术正在产生关于“说话”和拥有声音意味着什么的新概念。社交距离使我们对远程沟通的方式产生了新的关注。它还带来了新的压力，凸显了个人、社区和组织突然完全依赖的渠道中的差距。这种通过数字媒介语音和文本进行对话，课程，表演，医疗咨询，业务和关系的加速过渡改变了我们的声乐文化体验。危机引发了大规模的适应。辅助技术-合成语音助手、文本到语音程序、自动转录、隐藏式字幕-长期以来一直被用于将声音翻译成文本，反之亦然。近年来，这些系统已进入主流消费者用途：在某些领域增强了包容性，在另一些领域为获得救济带来了障碍。所有这些创新都被当代艺术家注册并创造性地处理，他们的作品已经质疑了这种扩展的多模态声乐的潜力。画廊2中的声音扩展了原项目对当代艺术中画外音的理论化，使创意产业的利益相关者参与到对当今“声音”的转变性质的跨部门探索中。通过与创意产业组织、咨询机构和创意从业者的伙伴关系，它提出了以下问题：a）新的通信工具、远程访问和辅助技术如何改变我们对文本和语音、连接和包容、在场、缺席和隔离的体验？B）艺术家和机构如何利用艺术的声音来推动更具包容性的艺术环境的发展？画廊2中的声音将调动“视觉”艺术的多感官、技术中介性质，以改变文化/创意产业对无障碍的理解。新委托的艺术品将探索语音技术的影响，并激活其潜力，以产生具有根本包容性的艺术品。 - 一个地理和数字分布的展览和活动计划将激发一个由机构，从业者，专业人士和当地公众组成的网络，以虚拟/面对面的方式来考虑当今声乐的变化状态。- 文章和演讲将分析这些技术的文化，社会和政治影响。- 一系列演讲诗将通过批判性创造性和形式创新的手段探索说话和写作，共同存在和延迟连接之间的关系。- 通过与社会实践声音艺术家进行基于实践的研究合作，并与音频描述专家VocalEyes协商，制作音频指南，将加强访问并实现远程参与。- 与自由艺术教育家在与参与专业人士协商后开发的教育包将有助于教师和学童在日常交流中探索扩大的声音。特定地点的社区共创项目将激活三个地点的参与者，以探索公共空间中自动语音的体验。- 通过与Daly &里昂和英国可持续发展协会的三方合作，开发了一本包容性设计的无障碍宣传册，将促进受众通过印刷和数字格式参与项目概念，艺术品和调查线索。- 共同创建的包容性设计艺术工具包将分享见解，模型解决方案，并向创意产业专业人士传播包容性平面设计的最佳实践。

Connecting us across space, our voices reach each other in ever more diverse and innovative ways. Emerging technologies are generating new conceptions of what it means to 'speak' and to have a voice. Social distancing has brought new attention to the means by which we communicate remotely. It also brings new pressures to bear-highlighting gaps in the conduits upon which individuals, communities and organisations suddenly and solely rely. This accelerated transition to conducting conversations, classes, performances, medical consultations, business and relationships via digitally mediated speech and text transforms our cultural experience of vocality. Crisis has provoked mass adaptation. Later, it will necessitate reflection.Assistive technologies--synthetic voice assistants, text-to-speech programmes, automated transcription, closed captions--have long been used to translate sound into text and vice versa. In recent years, these systems have passed into mainstream consumer use: enhancing inclusivity in some domains and bringing obstacles to access into relief in others. All of these innovations are registered and creatively processed by contemporary artists whose work already interrogates the potentiality of this expanded, multimodal vocality. Voices in the Gallery 2 extends the original project's theorisation of voiceover in contemporary art to engage stakeholders across the creative industries in a cross-sectoral exploration of the transformed nature of 'voice' today. Through partnership with creative industries organisations, advisory access agencies and creative practitioners it asks: a) How are new tools of communication, remote-access and assistive technologies changing our experiences of text and voice, connection and containment, presence, absence and isolation? b) How can art's expanded vocality be harnessed by artists and institutions to incite the development of a more inclusive art environment? Voices in the Gallery 2 will mobilise the multisensorial, technologically-mediated nature of 'visual' art to transform how the cultural/creative industries conceive of accessibility. -Newly commissioned artworks will explore the implications of voice technologies, and activate their potential to produce radically inclusive artworks. -A geographically and digitally distributed exhibition and event programme will galvanise a network of institutions, practitioners, professionals and local publics to gather-virtually/in-person-to consider the changed state of vocality today. -Articles and presentations will analyse the cultural, social and political ramifications of these technologies. -A collection of lecture-poems will explore the relations between speaking and writing, co-presence and delayed connection through critical-creative and formally innovative means. -Access will be enhanced and remote engagement enabled by an audio-guide produced through practice-based research collaboration with a social practice sound artist and in consultation with audio-description specialists VocalEyes. -An education pack developed with a freelance arts educator in consultation with engagement professionals will facilitate teachers and schoolchildren in exploring expanded vocality in everyday communication. -Site-specific community co-creation projects will activate participants in three locations to explore experiences of automated voices in public space. -An inclusively designed accessible broadside pamphlet, developed through tripartite collaboration with Daly & Lyon and the UK Association for Accessible Formats, will facilitate audiences to engage via print and digital formats with the project concept, artworks and investigative strands. -A co-created Inclusive Design for the Arts Toolkit will share insights, model solutions and disseminate best practice in inclusive graphic design to creative industries professionals.