Workshop
The workshop is designed to be a space where artists can express the aims, hopes and fears in making art in a rapidly evolving technical context, and explore some of the tensions between the scientific aims of CHI and the open nature of art making.
Workshop Structure
Day 1 - 7th May 2016
9:00am Welcome and registration
9:30 Introductions and scene setting from the organizers
10:00 - 12:00 Presentations of the delegates art work
12:00 – 12:30 Summary of themes emerging
14:00 – 15:30 Afternoon group discussions of linked themes and tensions between art and HCI. These themes will be partially determined by pre-workshop discussion. The discussions will lead to art-making briefs for Day 2
16:00 – 17:00 Group presentations summarizing the afternoon discussions, and presenting their pitches for the Day 2 activities
Evening Social activities with an art theme
Day 2 - 8th May 2016
9:00am Setting the scene. Reminder of the briefs and goals agreed on Day 2
9:30 – 12:00 Session 1 of working on digital art making
12:00 – 12:30 Summary of progress
14:00 – 15:30 Session 2 of working on digital art making
16:00 – 17:00 Presentation and discussion of the prototype art works
Evening Social activities and discussion of post-workshop actions
Post-Workshop Activities
Following the workshop we plan the following activities:
- Presentation of workshop outcomes via a conference poster
- Discussions about the workshop and Art.CHI gallery exhibition via a SIG meeting during the main conference
- An Art.CHI planning meeting during the main conference to identify, with the ACM SIGCHI Exec, plans for future years
- Discussions with workshop delegates and publishers for an edited volume covering the research aspects of the workshop presentations, e.g. In the Springer Cultural Computing Series
- An ACM Interactions article edited by the workshop organisers
