Supporting data for “Theorising ‘arts tech’: Mediations between art objects, people and policy in Hong Kong’s creative industry”

This research draws on a year of ethnographic research in a Hong Kong cross-media creative studio, where I participated in the planning and creation of numerous arts tech projects, complemented by interviewing studio members and their project collaborators. By focusing on the artefacts created through these projects, my research uncovers the productive tensions existing between the policymakers, commercial marketers and creative practitioners from objectives to practices in applying technologies to arts productions in Hong Kong. Existing studies of the cultural and creative industries or creative workers in both Western and Asian contexts mainly focus upon and theorise with inter-human relationships. Material objects have primarily been classed as ‘tools’ or ‘media’ in analysis. In this research, I offer another approach to studying the cultural and creative industries and creative workers by putting the significance of material objects in the foreground, using case studies of arts tech development in recent Hong Kong.This dataset contains: 1) the fieldnotes of my participant observation at the studied creative studio, during which I recorded the behaviours of the studio employees and all my interactions with them. 2) Metadata of individual interviews. I agreed with all interviewees at the written consent form that the interview content cannot be shared with any third party. The demographic and occupation information and interview dates are recorded in this metadata. 3) Metadata of photos and videos that I took during my participant observation. Record format, date of taking and short description of photos and videos are recorded in this metadata file.

本研究基于在香港跨媒体创意工作室开展的为期一年的民族志调研，期间笔者参与了多项艺术科技（Arts Tech）项目的策划与创作，并辅以访谈工作室成员及其项目合作方。本研究聚焦于这些项目产出的人工制品，揭示了香港地区在将技术应用于艺术创作的过程中，政策制定者、商业营销者与创意从业者之间从目标到实践层面存在的富有生产性的张力。

既往针对西方与亚洲语境下文化创意产业或创意工作者的研究，多以人际互动为核心分析维度并构建理论，物质对象在相关分析中大多被归类为‘工具’或‘媒介’。本研究则将物质对象的重要性置于研究前沿，以香港近年艺术科技发展的案例为依托，为文化创意产业与创意工作者的研究提供了全新视角。

本数据集包含以下内容：
1) 参与式观察田野笔记：记录了调研期间工作室雇员的行为，以及笔者与他们的全部互动情况。
2) 个人访谈元数据：笔者已与所有受访者签署书面知情同意书，约定访谈内容不得向任何第三方披露。该元数据记录了受访者的人口统计学信息、职业信息及访谈日期。
3) 参与式观察期间拍摄的照片与视频元数据：该元数据文件记录了照片及视频的录制格式、拍摄日期与简短描述。