ICC Lab: Expanding practice-led capability in the Creative Arts

创意文化研究所是考文垂大学新成立的艺术与人文专业研究机构。它汇集了一个充满活力的学术社区，致力于视觉艺术、舞蹈、策展、运动图像、创意人工智能和摄影方面的实践领先的研究，以及支持研究和开发活动的技术人员，以及与社区一起从事工作室后工作的艺术家。“ICC实验室：拓展创意艺术的实践主导能力”是建立在我们的学术界在创意艺术和技术的交汇处所做的开创性工作的基础上的。该研究所被设计为一个实验性的21世纪创意艺术研究实验室，集研发设施、表演工作室、实验室和展览区于一体，供其学术界共同努力，跨越学科界限，试验先进的数字技术。这种以实践为导向的研究新方法已经产生了重大的新成果。尽管如此，它需要继续投资于国际商会的设备和数字基础设施，用于以实践为导向的研究，以保持其目前的势头，同时也扩大其对复杂当代问题研究的贡献。在最近的一次基础设施审查中，研究所发现了其现有生产和展示设备供应中的重大漏洞，包括：(1)关键系统和设备迅速过时，限制了我们的实验范围；(2)通过资助研究购买的设备缺乏互操作性；(3)支持新兴研究领域所需的设备和软件存在缺口，我们的跨学科合作尤其受到影响。这项更新和升级ICC生产和展示设备的申请旨在带来我们能力的阶段性变化，用最先进的设备来证明我们的研究基础设施是未来的。这将使我们能够：(1)扩大我们的跨学科合作，提高我们制作和展示高质量的以实践为导向的艺术与人文研究的能力，以便通过试验新的数字技术为当代社会问题提供解决方案。(2)与考文垂双年展合作，深化我们与考文垂和更广泛地区的艺术家、数字从业者和不同社区的接触。因此，在考文垂文化之城2021年遗产的基础上，还吸引了来访的学者和艺术家。升级的设备和数字基础设施将为创意文化研究所创造新的研究机会。它将帮助我们探索重新混合和重复使用我们的成果的新方法，在一系列不同的媒体、格式和流派上进行试验，根据创意艺术的研究精神开发跨学科的方法，并扩大我们与创意和文化经济的合作。最后，拟议中的研究设施升级将有助于我们实现将我们的艺术与人文研究公之于众的目标。为国际商会配备最先进的制作和展示技术，将提高我们作为一个具有前瞻性和创新性的创意艺术研究所的知名度，为我们扩大与当地社区的接触提供条件，同时也支持我们努力扩大我们在国内和国际上的足迹。

The Institute for Creative Cultures is a newly created specialist research facility in the Arts & Humanities at Coventry University. It brings together a vibrant academic community devoted to practice-led research in the visual arts, dance, curation, the moving image, creative AI, and photography, together with technologists supporting research and development activities and artists engaging in post-studio work with communities. "ICC Lab: Expanding practice-led capability in the Creative Arts" is building on the pioneering work of our academic community operating at the intersection of the creative arts and technology. The Institute, designed as an experimental 21st century research lab for the Creative Arts, integrates in a single bespoke building R&D facilities, performance studios, labs and exhibition areas for its academic community to work together both to overcome disciplinary boundaries and experiment with advanced digital technologies. This novel approach to practice-led research has already produced significant new outputs. Nonetheless, it requires continuous investment in ICC's equipment and digital infrastructure for practice-led research to maintain its current momentum while also expanding its contribution to the study of complex contemporary issues. In a recent infrastructure review, the Institute has identified significant vulnerabilities in its existing production and display equipment provision including: (1) rapid obsolescence of key systems and devices restricting the breadth of our experimentation; (2) lack of interoperability of the equipment purchased through funded research; (3) gaps in the equipment and software needed to support emerging areas for research, with our transdisciplinary collaborations particularly affected.This application to renew and upgrade ICC's production and display equipment aims to bring about a step-change in our capabilities, future proofing our research infrastructure with state-of-the-art equipment. This will allow us to:(1) Extend our transdisciplinary collaborations and enhance our ability to produce and display high-quality practice-led research in the Arts & Humanities in order to provide solutions to contemporary societal problems through experimentation with new digital technologies.(2) Deepen our engagement with artists, digital practitioners and diverse communities in both Coventry and the wider region, in partnership with Coventry Biennial. Thus, building on the legacy of the Coventry City of Culture 2021 while also attracting visiting scholars and artists. The upgraded equipment and digital infrastructure will generate new research opportunities for the Institute for Creative Cultures. It will help us to explore new ways to remix and reuse our outputs, experiment across a range of different mediums, formats and genres, develop transdisciplinary methodologies based on the research ethos of the Creative Arts, and expand our collaborations with the creative and cultural economy. Finally, the proposed upgrade of our research facilities will help us fulfil our goal of making our Arts & Humanities research public. Equipping the ICC with state-of-the-art technologies for production and display will increase our visibility as a forward-thinking and innovative Institute for the Creative Arts, providing the conditions to widen our engagement with the local communities while also supporting our efforts to grow our footprint nationally and internationally.