Evaluating artistic opera co-creation

Main instruments and mid-process results

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.75585

Keywords:

evaluation, aristic co-creation, participatory art, community art, opera

Abstract

This article presents the evaluation model developed in the European project TRACTION to assess opera co-creation both as a process and as an output. It presents an overview of the project and describes the different trials developed as part of it together with the main results of the mid-process evaluation.  

Author Biography

Anna Matamala, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Anna Matamala, BA in Translation (UAB) and PhD in Applied Linguistics (UPF, Barcelona), is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Leader of Transmedia Catalonia research group, Anna Matamala has participated (DTV4ALL, ADLAB, HBB4ALL, ACT, ADLAB PRO, IMAC) and led (AVT-LP, ALST, VIW, NEA, EASIT, RAD) funded projects on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. She is currently involved in the European projects Mediaverse and Traction. She has published extensively in international journals such as Meta, The Translator, Perspectives, Babel, and Translation Studies, among others. She is the author of a book on interjections and lexicography (IEC, 2005), co-author (with Eliana Franco and Pilar Orero) of a book on voice-over (Peter Lang, 2010), author of a book on audiovisual accessibility and translation (Eumo, 2019), and co-editor of various volumes on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. Joan Coromines Prize in 2005, APOSTA Award to Young Researchers in 2011, Dr. Margaret R. Pfanstiehl Memorial Achievement Award in Audio Description Research and Development 2021. Her research interests are audiovisual translation and accessibility. She is also actively involved in standardisation work at ISO and UNE. More information: webs.uab.cat/amatamala

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Anna Matamala

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2022-12-30 — Updated on 2022-12-30

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Matamala, A. (2022). Evaluating artistic opera co-creation: Main instruments and mid-process results. ASRI. Art and Society. Journal for Research in Arts and Digital Humanities, (22), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.75585

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No. 22 (2022): OPENASRI. Miscellaneous Number

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