Objects of the Mind: engaging digital publics in material cultures of mental health and media

“心灵的恶魔”提供了第一个跨学科研究的“心理学”科学和电影在定义“漫长的20世纪60年代”时期的相互作用（Marwick 2005），当精神病学家，心理学家和精神分析师干预和影响电影文化以前所未有的方式（Snelson和Macauley 2020; Snelson 2011）。原始研究的一个关键但出乎意料的发现是，物体--精神病学仪器、实验室设备、诊断工具、心理测试、知觉实验--作为电影传播和竞争的心理学思想的具体物质性，以及它们与电影和声音技术以及寻求框定观众接受的特效的相互作用，发挥了至关重要的作用。“心灵的对象”（OoM）的后续资金将使我们能够完成我们一直在制作的叙事，而不是通过提出新的研究问题，而是通过重新审视与这些电影的电影制作中使用的对象有关的原始问题。通过观察媒体和医学的融合物质文化，我们能够为新的受众重新构建我们的研究，同时展示观察对象的公共价值。通过与科学博物馆集团（SMG）的共同调查，我们将扩大我们的DoM研究的历史共鸣和当代相关性，同时通过知识交流和观众发展为博物馆生活文化增加价值。通过一系列创新的数字资源以及面对面和在线活动，该项目将为公众提供一系列档案电影（由合作伙伴Musicocanal提供）和博物馆物品（其中一些没有实物展示或目前没有数字化）的访问和互动。这将试图证明重组对象和档案材料以外的既定分类，以揭示跨集合的“纠缠的故事”的价值。通过与INTO Film的合作，我们将把DoM的调查结果和SMG系列带给Z世代（10-25岁），这一人群被确定为受到持续流行的影响，特别是在教育和社会机会中断方面，以及对心理健康的不利影响。因此，该项目反映了澳大利亚人权委员会在这一流行病的持续社会、教育和心理影响方面的优先事项，特别是“建立国家收藏”对数字访问以及与遗产收藏之间的互动的关切。这包括为SMG画廊和特别收藏的现场虚拟图尔斯之旅开发一个模型，迄今为止尚未交付。OoM有三个主要目标：1）利用SMG收藏品内和收藏品之间的对象的可访问性作为教学工具，以沟通和吸引更多和更多样化的受众了解DoM的发现。2)利用DoM的研究来讲述关于科学博物馆（ScM）和国家科学与媒体博物馆（NSMM）的科学，医学和媒体收藏的新故事，这将激发公众对博物馆物品的兴趣，并激励下一代公民，临床医生和电影制片人。3)利用SMG以及我们的合作伙伴和合作者的专业知识和基础设施，发展项目团队的数字参与技能。我们的原始项目DoM调查结果与SMG的“顶级”研究优先事项之间存在很强的一致性，这个OoM项目将为机构级研究优先事项提供支持，以促进更好地理解收藏品并思考ScM和NSMM可以讲述的新故事。该项目还寻求在东安格利亚大学（UEA）和博物馆合作伙伴之间建立长期的工作关系，包括共同开发和监督博士和博士后项目。

'Demons of the Mind' offered the first interdisciplinary study of the interactions of the 'psy' sciences and cinema in the defining 'long 1960s' period (Marwick 2005), when psychiatrists, psychologists and psychoanalysts intervened in and influenced film culture in unprecedented ways (Snelson and Macauley 2020; Snelson 2011). A key but unexpected finding of the original research, was the vital role played by objects - psychiatric instruments, laboratory equipment, diagnostic tools, psychological tests, perceptual experiments - as the embodied materiality of the psychological ideas that the films circulated and contested, and their interaction with the cinematic and sound technologies and special effects that sought to frame their reception by audiences. The Follow-on-Funding for 'Objects of the Mind' (OoM) would allow us to complete the narrative we have been crafting, not by asking new research questions, but by revisiting the original ones in relation to the objects employed within the cinematic production of these films. By looking at converging material culture of media and medicine we are able to reframe our research for new audiences, whilst demonstrating the public value of looking at objects. Through co-investigation with the Science Museum Group (SMG) we will extend the historical resonance and contemporary relevance of our DoM research, whilst adding value to the culture of museum life through knowledge exchange and audience development. Through an innovative suite of digital resources and in-person and online events, the project will offer public access and interaction with a range of archive film (supplied by partners Studiocanal) and museum objects (some of which are not on physical display or currently digitised). This will seek to demonstrate the value of recombining objects and archival materials outside of established taxonomies to reveal 'entangled stories' across collections. Through partnership with INTO Film we will bring the DoM findings and SMG collections to Generation Z (aged 10-25), a demographic identified as being particularly affected by the ongoing pandemic in terms of disruption of educational and social opportunities, and resultant adverse effects on mental health. The project, therefore, speaks to AHRC priorities relating to the ongoing social, educational and psychological effects of the pandemic, and specifically to Towards a National Collection's concerns regarding digital access and interaction with and across heritage collections. This includes developing a model for live virtual tours of the SMG galleries and special collections, which have not been delivered to date. OoM has three key aims: 1) to harness the accessibility of the objects within and across SMG's collections as didactic tools to communicate and engage larger and more diverse audiences for the DoM findings. 2) to utilise the DoM research to tell new stories about and across the Science Museum (ScM) and National Science and Media Museum's (NSMM) science, medicine and media collections, that will stimulate public interest in museum objects and inspire the next generation of citizens, clinicians and filmmakers. 3) to utilise the expertise and infrastructure of the SMG and our partners and collaborators to develop the digital engagement skills of the project team. There is a strong alignment between our original project DoM findings and the SMG's 'top level' research priorities, and this OoM project will feed into institutional level research priorities in fostering better understandings of the collections and thinking about new stories that the ScM and NSMM can to tell about their collections. This project also seeks to establish a longer-term working relationship between the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the museum partners, including co-developing and supervising doctoral and postdoctoral projects.