Art Maps - Telling Tales of Engagement

Art Maps - Telling Tales of Engagement旨在向更广泛和差异化的受众进一步“讲述”Art Maps研究项目的影响。Art Maps是Horizon Digital Economy Research（诺丁汉大学）、Tate（Tate Learning、Tate Online和Tate Research）和埃克塞特大学媒介中心（Centre of Intermedia）之间的合作研究项目，探索艺术、地点和移动的技术。大约三分之一的泰特收藏品，包括近70，000件作品，已经被索引了关于位置的信息，通常是所代表的网站。对于某些作品来说，这些信息是非常具体的，但在许多情况下，它是非常笼统的，只涉及一个城市，地区或主要地理特征。艺术地图项目旨在提高与这些作品有关的地理数据的质量，由公众提供信息，并对人们如何使用移动的技术通过艺术了解他们的环境以及如何通过与位置和地图有关的个人历史了解艺术获得新的见解。通过查看与艺术品相关的网站，用户可以更熟悉网站和艺术，探索艺术品与其所代表的网站的联系或区别，网站如何随时间变化，以及不同艺术家如何代表和体验网站。在2012年期间，艺术地图网站和移动的应用程序被开发出来，允许人们将艺术品与地点联系起来，他们在日常生活中遇到的地点和环境。重要的是，新的软件使观众能够探索网站的想法，地点和位置，环境，代表和记忆，无论是自己和合作（例如，家庭，朋友和学校）。2012年4月和10月在英国伦敦泰特美术馆举办的两次研讨会对艺术制图作为观众参与机制进行了研究。初步结果似乎很有希望，并建议将该项目进一步传播给更广泛和不同的受众。因此，为了进一步“讲述”艺术地图的故事，并通过艺术地图应用程序的支持，我们计划：组织针对数字受众的在线活动，以及泰特美术馆内的活动（例如在“看风景”展览的背景下）;与公众共同设计艺术小径;通过互动活动让研究界参与进来。还将通过在其他活动（如科学展览会）中展示艺术地图来实现更广泛的公众参与。

Art Maps - Telling Tales of Engagement aims to further 'tell the story' of the impact of the Art Maps research project to a wider and differentiated audience.Art Maps is a collaborative research project between Horizon Digital Economy Research (University of Nottingham), Tate (Tate Learning, Tate Online and Tate Research) and the Centre of Intermedia at the University of Exeter, exploring art, place and mobile technology. About one third of the Tate collection, comprising almost 70,000 works, has been indexed with information about locations, typically the site represented. For some works this information is quite specific but in many cases it is quite general, referring only to a city, region or major geographical feature. The Art Maps project aims to improve the quality of the geographical data relating to these works, with members of the public contributing information, as well as to gain new insights into how people use mobile technology to understand their environment through art, and art through their personal histories in relation to location and mapping. By looking at a site in relation to artworks, users become more familiar with both the site and the art, explore how artworks relate to or differ from the sites they represent, how sites have changed over time, and how sites have been represented and experienced by different artists.Over the course of 2012, Art Maps web and a mobile application were developed, allowing people to relate artworks to the places, sites and environments they encounter in daily life. Importantly, the new software enables audiences to explore ideas of site, place and location, environment, representation and memory, both on their own and collaboratively (for example, families, friends and schools). Art mapping, as audience engagement mechanism, was investigated through two workshops, held respectively in April and in October 2012 at Tate Britain in London. The preliminary results seem promising, and suggest a value for a further dissemination of the project to a wider and differentiated audience.So, to further 'tell the story' of Art Maps, and through the support of Art Maps applications, we plan: to organise online events targeted at digital audiences, as well as Tate in-gallery activities (e.g. in the context of the "Looking at the View" exhibition); to co-design art-trails with the public; to involve the research community through interactive events. Broader public engagement will be also attained through the Art Maps presentation to other events (e.g. Science Festivals).