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Resonant Webs: An International Online Collaborative Arts Performance for Individuals with and without a Disability

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In this paper we discuss the creation of an international online sound arts performance developed in collaboration between artists in Australia and Japan. The COVID-19 global pandemic has made community activities related to the arts more challenging due to restrictions on personal mobility and international travel. We report on a hybrid workshop approach that combines online and face-to-face interaction, which has enabled sound artists with intellectual disability to participate in activities with international outreach. Specifically, we describe the design and technological implementation of a live performance and an interactive audio-visual artwork that translates audio data to visual effect from an Australian ensemble of sound art musicians with intellectual disability, and a professional Japanese Noh singer and performer. Based on the artists initial reflections in developing the performance we discuss opportunities and advantages of online digital spaces for international collaboration and co-creation in community arts contexts that may be utilised in the future.

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  • Interactive art
  • Disability
  • Sonic arts
  • Participation
  • Interaction design

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Acknowledgements

Resonant Webs is supported by grant funding from the Australia Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Toyota Foundation D19-ST-0015 (Interactive Arts and Disability: Creative Rehabilitation and Activity for Individuals with a Disability), and JSPS 17K00740. The authors wish to thank Slow Label, Ryoko Aoki and Minato City: Cultural Program for their support.

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  1. School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Jonathan Duckworth & Ross Eldridge

  2. College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

    Shigenori Mochizuki

  3. Jolt Sonic and Visual Arts Inc., Melbourne, Australia

    James Hullick

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Duckworth, J., Mochizuki, S., Eldridge, R., Hullick, J. (2022). Resonant Webs: An International Online Collaborative Arts Performance for Individuals with and without a Disability. In: Wölfel, M., Bernhardt, J., Thiel, S. (eds) ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 422. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_18

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