The Metallization of a Dream: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Independent Group, a case study in creative theory and practice for the digital age.

研究的背景Eduardo Paolozzi在他的一生中并没有受到持续的学术关注。他唯一的一次大型回顾展是1971年在泰特美术馆举行的，但并不成功。现在是时候重新审视他的作品了，他的作品过去和现在都是挑衅性的，跨越了印刷、拼贴、雕塑、电影和设计之间的障碍。数字媒体和电影制作提供的概念框架将加强这种重新评估。《梦的金属化》是评论家劳伦斯·阿洛韦（Lawrence Alloway）和艺术家爱德华多·保罗齐（Eduardo Paolozzi）合作的一个项目的标题，该项目导致1963年出版了一本限量版的插图书。它涉及许多独立团体的痴迷，包括新技术，流行文化，身体和机器之间的关系以及视觉表现。这本书的美学是典型的Paolozzi的工作，当时，它是混乱，粗糙和非顺序。这个项目的灵感来自于这些痴迷和美学，并将利用数字媒体重新评估Paolozzi和独立小组的工作。独立小组从1952年到1955年在国际会议中心开会。在伦敦。虽然该小组只在很短的时间内举行会议，但其工作的影响和灵感来自美国和欧洲广泛的媒体。多样的创意作品和丰富的讨论方案涵盖了建筑、设计、流行文化和技术。这个团体通常被认为是“流行音乐之父”（1979年制作的一部艺术理事会电影的标题），这个项目旨在通过重新考虑Paolozzi作为l 'Art Brut的代表，一个重要的批判性思想家和电影制片人，来打破这种特殊的阅读。今天的技术提供的可能性询问的材料将提供一个新的了解爱德华多Paolozzi和独立组，并作出贡献的数字艺术史。目的和目标该项目的主要目的是提供一个新的了解早期生活和工作的爱德华多Paolozzi通过一个简短的，纪录片和会议文件。这部电影将在2007年3月22日和23日举行的泰特现代美术馆会议上放映，会议文件将在会上宣读。因此，它代表了首席研究员的一个新的出发点，他在过去的25年里对独立小组进行了学术研究，现在希望探索数字技术重新评估其领先的创意从业者之一的工作的可能性。泰特现代美术馆会议将提供机会，激发研究界和更广泛的公众之间的辩论。它将促进对Eduardo Paolozzi工作的了解和理解，无论是在他的知识和创造性背景下，还是在数字媒体的背景下。该项目的第二个目标是为一个更大的计划奠定基础，重点是“流行音乐之父”阅读之外的独立小组，收集和储存材料，提供路标，支持研究，并通过一个专门的网站解释该小组今天的重要性。电影的制作和会议文件的介绍将激发学术辩论，并与更广泛的公众分享对Eduardo Paolozzi工作的知识和理解。它将通过介绍他广泛的电影作品和参考资料，提醒观众注意Paolozzi和独立团体超越波普艺术范式的工作。该项目还将使首席研究员能够扩展其研究实践的范围，为其他创意艺术研究人员提供案例研究。网络资源的开发还将提供一套关于Paolozzi和该小组在国际上的来源和当前工作的最新信息。

The Context of the ResearchEduardo Paolozzi was not the subject of sustained academic attention during his lifetime. His only major retrospective was in 1971 at the Tate Gallery, which was not a critical success. The time is now ripe to look again at his work, which was and is provocative, crossing barrriers between printing, collage, sculpture, film and design. The conceptual frameworks offered by digital media and film making will enhance this re-evaulation. The Metallization of a Dream is the title of a collaborative project between the critic Lawrence Alloway and the artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which resulted in the publication of a limited edition, illustrated book in 1963. It dealt with many Independent Group obsessions, including new technology, popular culture, the relationship between body and machine and visual representation. The book's aesthetic is typical of Paolozzi's work of that time; it is chaotic, rough and non-sequential. This project is inspired by, and builds upon, these obsessions and aesthetic and will re-evalute the work of Paolozzi and the Independent Group using digital media. The Independent Group had met from 1952-55 at the I.C.A. in London. Although the Group met over only a short period of time, the influences and inspiration for their work represent a rich cross section of American and European sources from a comprehensive range of media. The diverse creative work and rich programme of discussions spanned architecture, design, popular culture and technology. The Group are conventionally regarded as 'The Fathers of Pop' (the title of an Arts Council film produced in 1979) and this project aims to destabalise that particular reading, by reconsidering Paolozzi as an exponent of l'Art Brut, a significant critical thinker and film maker. The possibilities offered by today's technology for interrogating the material will offer a fresh understanding of Eduardo Paolozzi and the Independent Group, and make a contribution to the digital history of art. Aims and ObjectivesThe main aim of the project is to offer a fresh understanding of the early life and work of Eduardo Paolozzi by means of a short, documentary film and conference paper. The film will be screened and the conference paper delivered at the Tate Modern conference, to be held on the 22nd and 23rd March 2007. As such, it represents a new departure for the Principal Investigator, who has conducted academic research on the Independent Group over the past twenty-five years, and now wishes to explore the possibilities of digital technology for re-evaluating the work of one of its leading creative practitioners. The Tate Modern conference will present the opportunity to stimulate debate amongst the research community and the broader public. It will advance knowledge and understanding about the work of Eduardo Paolozzi, both within his intellectual and creative context and the context of digital media. The second aim of the project is to lay the groundwork for a much larger scheme, focussing on the Independent Group beyond the 'Fathers of Pop' reading, to gather and store materials, provide signposts, support research and explain the significance of the Group today by means of a dedicated website. Potential Applications and BenefitsThe production of the film and presentation of the conference paper will stimulate academic debate and share knowledge and understanding of the work of Eduardo Paolozzi with a broader public. It will alert the audience to the work of Paolozzi and the Independent Group beyond the Pop Art paradigm, by introducing his extensive film work and range of references. The project will also enable the Principal Investigator to extend the limits of her research practice, acting as a case study for other researchers in the creative arts. The development of a web resource will also provide an up to date set of information about sources and current work on Paolozzi and the Group internationally.