Performativity/ Place / Space: Locating Grid Technologies

作为布里斯托尔大学研究主题表演性|地点|空间的一部分，‘定位网格技术’研讨会和研讨会调查了网格技术的潜力，为分布式、创造性的研究实践产生了对空间和时间的新理解。该项目使用Access Grid(AG)作为一个灵活、交互的视听网络环境，汇集了来自英国、美国和日本的混合模式的研究人员，以生成、分析和重复使用分布式实践指导研究的视听文档。系列研讨会成功的关键是国际和平研究所、Angela Piccini博士、布里斯托尔大学学习与研究技术研究所、其电子研究中心和教育研究生院之间有效的跨学科合作伙伴关系，以及Memtic和曼彻斯特大学的Access网格支持中心。所有活动都被记录在曼彻斯特大学的Memtic服务器上。Memtic是JISC资助的VRE(虚拟研究环境)，旨在通过先进的会议支持和信息管理工具扩大AG的使用。它允许记录、分析和回放AG会议。在“定位网格技术”项目中，我们探索了Memtic在分布式创意研究中的潜力。第一个研讨会是“分销：创意和表演艺术与媒体的电子科学入门”。一个关键目标是确定促进艺术和电子科学之间分散合作的核心主题。当天的第一部分向与会者介绍了网格技术及其在艺术中的潜在应用。后半天通过分布式表演展示了AG和Memtic：一个即兴管弦乐队在一个AG节点表演，一个舞者在另一个节点表演，表演通过Memtic内的Compendium软件应用程序进行映射。特别值得关注的是AG和Memtic的技术以及AG在会议室内的物理表达方式，产生了对表演空间的特殊理解。《连接：PARIP Explorer、语义网和创意、表演艺术和媒体的数据网格》侧重于使用在第一次研讨会上生成并存储在Memtic服务器上的视听数据对象，以开发通过语义网数据库应用程序将它们联系起来的方法。在关于语义网和非e-Science数据网格(如点对点文件共享)的演讲之后，参与者使用第一次研讨会的MometicRecord探索旨在促进在线环境中分布式表演文档数据的定位和重复使用的协作标记。最后一次研讨会名为《位置：网格技术对创意和表演艺术和媒体中空间和地点的可表现性的影响》，使用第二次研讨会的标记视听数据对象来探索如何将这些对象有效地用于进一步的创造性研究。在关于创意实践的协作分类的实践会议之后，Bristol AG节点的一组研究人员在南安普顿与其他研究人员会面，伦敦和曼彻斯特举行了一场由舞者、音乐家、诗人、表演者、视觉艺术家、电影制作人和数字艺术家参与的分布式表演。最后一次研讨会的目的是测试现有技术的局限性，以便为其他用户提供有用的技术指导，并为未来的研究提出一系列问题。最后一次研讨会是AG研讨会，来自日本的舞者、犹他州的戏剧制作人以及来自英国的远程呈现和新媒体艺术家分享了他们在网格技术与现有技术的比较中的经验，以进行分布式创意研究。研讨会演讲的一个具体焦点是网格技术对实践引领的研究中“地点和空间”的影响。

As part of the University of Bristol research theme Performativity | Place | Space, the 'Locating Grid Technologies' workshops and symposium investigated the potential of Grid technologies to produce new understandings of space and time for distributed, creative research practices.Using Access Grid (AG) as a flexible, interactive audio-visual networking environment the project drew together mixed-mode researchers from the UK, US and Japan to generate, analyse and re-use audio-visual documents of distributed practice-led research. Key to the success of the workshop series was the effective interdisciplinary partnership among the PI, Dr Angela Piccini, and University of Bristol's Institute for Learning and Research Technology, its Centre for e-Research and the Graduate School of Education, in addition to Memetic and the Access Grid Support Centre at University of Manchester.All events were recorded on to the Memetic server at University of Manchester. Memetic is a JISC-funded VRE (virtual research environment) designed to extend uses of AG through advanced meeting support and information management tools. It allows for recording, analysis and replay of AG meetings. In the 'Locating Grid Technologies' project we explored the potential of Memetic in distributed creative research.The first workshop was 'Distribution: an introduction to e-Science for the creative and performing arts and media'. A key objective was to determine themes central to facilitating distributed collaborations between the arts and e-Science. The first part of the day introduced participants to Grid technologies and their potential application in the arts. The second half of the day demonstrated AG and Memetic through distributed performance: an improvisational orchestra performed in one AG node, a dancer performed in another node and the performance was mapped through the Compendium software application within Memetic. Of specific concern was the way in which the technologies of AG and Memetic and the physical expression of AG within the meeting rooms produce particular understandings of performance spaces.'Connection: PARIP Explorer, Semantic Web and data grids for the creative and performing arts and media' focused on using the audio-visual data objects generated at the first workshop and stored on the Memetic server to develop ways in which they might be linked via a Semantic Web database application. Following presentations on Semantic Web and non e-Science data grids such as peer-to-peer file sharing, participants used the Memeticrecordings of the first workshop to explore collaborative tagging aimed at facilitating the location and reuse of distributed performance documentation data in online environments.The final workshop, 'Location: the impact of Grid technologies on the performativity of space and place in the creative and performing arts and media', used the tagged audio-visual data objects from the second workshop to explore how these might productively be used in further creative research.Following a practical session on collaborative classifying of creative practices, a group of researchers in the Bristol AG node met with others in Southampton, London and Manchester in a distributed performance that involved dancers, musicians, poets, performers, visual artists, film makers and digital artists. The aim of the final workshop was to test the limits of the available technology in order to generate useful technical guidance for other users and to produce a series of questions for future research.The final event was an AG symposium that brought dancers from Japan, theatre makers from Utah and telepresence and new media artists from the UK to share their experiences of Grid technologies as they compare with existing technologies for distributed creative research. A specific focus of the symposium presentations was the impact of Grid technologies on the 'place of place and space' in practice-led research.