XRtists: Artists Extending Realities

XRtists：延伸现实的艺术家

• 批准号: AH/Z505407/1
• 负责人: Verity McIntosh
• 金额: $ 752.88万
• 依托单位: University of the West of England
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505407%2F1
• 关键词: XRtists; Artists; Extending; Realities

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.

艺术家扩展现实将召集、委托和支持新的包容性艺术家浪潮，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、四个制作场所以及来自在包容性、培训、展示和展示方面拥有专业知识的组织的全英国专业知识。研究。合作伙伴 - Pervasive Media Studio（Watershed、UWE Bristol、英国布里斯托大学）、Wales Millennium Centre（威尔士）、Nerve Center（北爱尔兰）、Cryptic（苏格兰）、Crossover Labs（谢菲尔德）、Unlimited、XR Diversity Initiative 和Immerse UK - 始终致力于支持艺术家并接触观众，同时建立该行业的公平性，从而团结在一起。我们共同带来成功实施该项目所需的实践经验。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不同背景的艺术家创造包容性的机会，让他们的创造力脱颖而出。通过综合研究计划，我们将捕捉并分享关于什么最适合更广泛行业的见解和学习。我们将建立一个强大的实践和展览网络，在这个网络中，英国独特的沉浸式艺术领域能够出现并蓬勃发展。英国首先投资于沉浸式内容制作，然后投资于 XR 基础设施和技能。该计划将为艺术家提供联合支持，以创作出将内容和技术与目的和受众相结合的作品。为了实现现有投资的潜力，艺术家（尤其是目前在该领域代表性不足的艺术家）需要获得实验工具、培训和专业知识、了解该领域的制作人的支持、更好的发行路线和展示机会，以及建立信心的受众发展我们相信，XR 技术的独特特性为艺术、文化、经济和社会影响创造了机会。沉浸式工具让艺术家和观众能够扮演流动的角色，并共同塑造丰富的故事世界。亲身经历可以对人产生深远的影响；让他们以发自内心且持久的方式相互接触、接触他们的环境和故事。这激发了新的想象形式，这在一个分裂和濒临灭绝的星球上是迫切需要的。混合和社交 XR 实现了在物理和数字空间中在一起的新方式。由于地理位置、缺乏经济机会和/或残疾而与艺术隔绝的人们可以找到有意义的方式来创造和联系文化体验。如果得到精心支持，新的商业模式就会出现，吸引那些可能没有参与“主流”艺术的观众，并产生新的分销路线，同时最大限度地减少碳影响。通过负责任的研发方法，在每个阶段都考虑包容性、可持续性和道德规范，我们将释放 XR 的潜在潜力，建立一个能够在与更广泛的生态系统的再生伙伴关系中蓬勃发展的行业。扩展现实的艺术家将采取行动作为创造性的催化剂，提高形象和雄心，并在三年内形成一种文化，为未来二十年奠定基础。