XRtists: Artists Extending Realities

Artists Extending Realities将召集、委托和支持新一轮包容性的艺术家，让他们创作和分享非凡的沉浸式作品。我们的提案汇集了两所大学、四个制作场地和来自全英国范围内的组织的专业知识，这些组织在包容性、培训、展示和研究方面具有专业知识。合作伙伴-普及媒体工作室（分水岭，UWE布里斯托，英格兰布里斯托大学），威尔士千禧中心（威尔士），神经中心（北方爱尔兰），神秘（苏格兰），交叉实验室（谢菲尔德），无限，XR多样性倡议和沉浸英国-通过持续的承诺团结在一起，支持艺术家和接触观众，同时建立该部门的公平。我们共同带来了成功交付该计划所需的实践经验。在三年内，我们将委托200多名艺术家参与，实验和探索沉浸式技术的可能性。我们将为来自英国四个国家和多种语言的所有背景的艺术家创造包容性的机会，使他们的创造力脱颖而出。通过研究的综合方案，我们将捕捉和分享见解和学习什么最适合更广泛的部门。我们将建立一个强大的实践和展览网络，在这个网络中，一个独特的英国沉浸式艺术行业可以出现并蓬勃发展。英国首先对沉浸式内容制作进行了早期投资，然后是XR基础设施和技能。该计划将为艺术家提供联合支持，使作品将内容和技术与目的和观众相结合。为了实现现有投资的潜力，艺术家们（特别是那些目前在该行业代表性不足的人）需要获得工具、培训和实验专业知识，了解该领域的制作人的支持，更好的分销路线和展示机会，以及观众发展，为沉浸式艺术建立信心和批判性。我们相信XR技术的独特特性为艺术，文化、经济和社会影响。沉浸式工具让艺术家和观众能够共同体验流动的人物角色，并塑造丰富的故事世界。体验可以对人们产生深远的影响;让他们以发自内心和持久的方式与彼此，与他们的环境和故事接触。这激发了新的想象形式，这是一个分裂和濒危的星球所迫切需要的。混合和社交XR使物理和数字空间中的新方式得以实现。那些因地理、缺乏经济机会和/或残疾而与艺术隔绝的人可以找到有意义的方式来创造和连接文化体验。如果得到精心的支持，新的商业模式就会出现，吸引那些可能不会参与“主流”艺术的观众，并在最大限度地减少碳影响的同时创造新的分销渠道。通过负责任的研发方法，在每个阶段都考虑包容性，可持续性和道德，我们将释放XR的潜力，建立一个可以与更广泛的生态系统建立再生伙伴关系的行业。Artists Extending Realities将作为创意催化剂，提高知名度和雄心，并在三年内产生一种文化，成为未来二十年的基础。

Artists Extending Realities will convene, commission and support a new inclusive wave of artists to make and share extraordinary immersive work.Our proposal brings together two universities, four producing venues and UK-wide expertise from organisations with specialist expertise around inclusion, training, showcasing and research. The partners - Pervasive Media Studio (Watershed, UWE Bristol, University of Bristol, England), Wales Millennium Centre (Wales), Nerve Centre (Northern Ireland), Cryptic (Scotland), Crossover Labs (Sheffield), Unlimited, XR Diversity Initiative and Immerse UK - are united by an ongoing commitment to support artists and reach audiences while building equity in the sector. Collectively we bring the practical experience needed to successfully deliver this programme.In three years, we will commission over 200 artists to engage, experiment and explore the possibilities of immersive technology. We will create inclusive opportunities for artists of all backgrounds, from across the four nations and multiple languages of the UK to bring their creativity to the fore. Through an integrated programme of research, we will capture and share insight and learning about what works best for the wider sector. We will establish a powerful network of practice and exhibition within which a distinctive UK immersive arts sector can emerge and flourish.The UK made early investment into first immersive content production, then XR infrastructure and skills. This programme will offer joined up support for artists to make work that integrates content and technology with purpose and audience in mind. To realise the potential of existing investment, artists (especially those currently underrepresented in the sector) need access to tools, training and expertise for experimentation, support from producers who understand the field, better distribution routes and showcasing opportunities, and audience development that builds confidence and criticality into the immersive arts.We believe that the unique characteristics of XR technologies create opportunities for artistic, cultural, economic and societal impact. Immersive tools allow artists and audiences to inhabit fluid personas and shape rich storyworlds alongside one other. Embodied experiences can have a profound effect on people; engaging them with each other, with their environment and with stories in visceral and long lasting ways. This sparks new forms of imagining, desperately needed in a divided and endangered planet.Hybrid and social XR enable new ways of being together in physical and digital space. People who are isolated from the arts through geography, a lack of economic opportunity and/or disability can find meaningful ways to create and connect with cultural experiences. If carefully supported, new business models emerge, attracting audiences who may not have otherwise participated in 'mainstream' arts and generating new distribution routes while minimising carbon impact. Through a responsible approach to research and development, in which inclusion, sustainability and ethics are considered at every stage, we will unleash this latent potential of XR to build a sector that can thrive in regenerative partnership with the wider ecosystem.Artists Extending Realities will act as a creative catalyst, raising profile and ambition, and generating a culture in three years that becomes the foundation for the next twenty.