Global Leadership of Women in Web 3 (GLoW3) (2020-2024)

GLoW 3旨在询问、理解和展望妇女、非二元和反式（W、NB和T）对Web 3.0屏幕媒体的概念化、商业化和创造潜力的贡献。“Web 3.0”一词涵盖了一系列概念、框架、技术和理想。它包括世界建筑和虚拟世界等概念;被称为语义网和物联网（IoT）的数据驱动框架;区块链和沉浸式现实（包括AR，VR和XR）等技术;以及去中心化和互联网民主化等理想。Web 3.0的承诺和潜力尚未实现，这是一个关键的过渡时刻，未来正在被公共媒体话语所塑造，这些话语被夸张和修辞所主导，这些话语来自狭隘的声音和观点。在任何基于屏幕的技术过渡时刻到来时，妇女作为主要的实验者和创新者一直走在前列-在技术和创造力相互碰撞的空间中开拓。我们可以从现在挖掘的女性在早期电影制作和计算机技术方面的创新历史中看到这一点。这些历史还揭示了，随着技术的成熟和商品化，女性的历史很快就被抹去了，因为男性先驱者的叙述占据了主导地位。NB和T人的贡献不被承认。GLoW 3试图干预和破坏这些规范性过程，并捕捉发生的历史。它将通过同步分析来实现这一点，重点关注目前在Web 3.0前沿的屏幕媒体中处于最高影响力和创造性创新前沿的W、NB和T人员。GLoW 3涉及与这些来自全球各种背景的个人的直接合作（包括英国、欧洲、北美、澳大利亚和非洲）并将通过一项旨在发展自身全球领导能力的参与计划，汲取他们的专业知识和经验。该项目由三个关键的交叉领域组成，即Web 3.0驱动的基于屏幕的媒体：概念化、商业化和创造力。概念探究将为新的研究提供信息，这将加深对虚拟宇宙和世界构建概念的理解，提出关键问题，例如世界构建在全球背景下意味着什么？hyberbole在塑造新的基于屏幕的技术方面发挥了什么作用，W，NB和T在塑造，影响和领导这些叙事方面有什么贡献？Web 3.0的商业维度建立在区块链技术之上。这一调查分支将通过W、NB和T牵头的具体倡议，研究这些技术如何在不同的全球背景下影响他们的现实经验，以及将创造性产出作为不可替代的代币（NFT）分发的复杂影响包括对劳动实践和环境的影响。创意链将通过一个艺术家在该计划将针对边缘化的艺术家，最终将与国家美术馆和Gazelli艺术之家合作举办一个突破性的混合式多地点展览：“Web 3.0的女性：创新者，世界建设者和领导者”。该展览于2024年国际妇女节启动，将汇集来自世界各地的创作者的新的和现有的数字艺术品，这些艺术品使用Web 3.0技术在新兴媒体的前沿进行创新，将物理与数字融合在一起。GLoW 3旨在以高度参与的方式向各种受众提供Web 3.0的概念和实践，并扩大和鼓励W，NB和T个人参与基于屏幕的技术创新的过程和实践。

GLoW3 seeks to interrogate, understand and foreground women, non-binary and trans (W, NB and T) contributions to the conceptualisation, commercialisation and creative potential of Web 3.0 screen-based media.The term 'Web 3.0' accounts for a range of concepts, frameworks, technologies and ideals. It encompasses concepts such as worldbuilding and the metaverse; data-driven frameworks known as the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT); technologies such as blockchain and immersive realities (including AR, VR and XR); as well as ideals such as decentralisation and the democratisation of the internet. The promise and potential of Web 3.0 has yet to be realised and this is a critical moment of transition where the future is being shaped by public media discourse dominated by hyperbole and rhetoric drawn from a narrow representation of voices and perspectives.At the advent of any technological screen-based transitionary moment, women have been at the forefront as lead experimenters and innovators - pioneering in spaces where technology and creativity collide. We can see this in the now excavated histories of women innovating in early film production and computer technologies. What these histories also reveal is that as the technology becomes established and commodified, women's histories are rapidly erased as narratives of male pioneers dominate. Contributions made by NB and T people are not acknowledged. GLoW3 seeks to intervene in and disrupt these normative processes and capture the history as it happens. It will do so through a synchronic analysis focussing on W, NB and T people who are currently working at the highest levels of influence and at the cutting-edges of creative innovation in screen-based media at the frontiers of Web 3.0.GLoW3 involves the direct collaboration with these individuals who originate from a diverse range of global contexts (including UK, Europe, North America, Australia and Africa) and will draw on their expertise and experiences through a programme of engagement which also aims to develop their own global leadership capabilities.The project is made up by three key intersecting strands of enquiry into Web 3.0 driven screen-based media: conceptualisation, commercialisation and creativity.The conceptual enquiry will inform new research which will deepen understandings of the concepts of the metaverse and worldbuilding, asking critical questions such as what does worldbuilding mean in a global context? What role does hyberbole play in shaping new screen-based technologies and what are the contributions of W, NB and T in shaping, influencing and leading these narratives? The commercial dimension of Web 3.0 is built on blockchain technologies. This branch of enquiry will seek to critically examine these through specific W, NB and T-led initiatives, examining how these technologies have impacted upon the realities of their experiences in different global contexts and the complex implications of distributing creative output as Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) including upon labour practices and the environment.The creative strand will examine the affordances of the emerging media forms of web 3.0 through an artist-in-residence scheme which will target marginalised artists, culminating in a ground-breaking hybrid, multi-sited exhibition: 'Women of Web 3.0: innovators, worldbuilders and leaders' in collaboration with National Gallery and Gazelli Art House. The exhibition, launching on International Women's Day 2024, will bring together new and existing digital artwork from creators across the world innovating at the leading edges of emerging media using Web 3.0 technologies which fuse the physical with the digital. GLoW3 seeks to make the concepts and practices of Web 3.0 accessible to a diverse range of audiences in highly engaging ways and to amplify and encourage participation of W, NB and T individuals in the processes and practices of screen-based technological innovation.