Artistic research as speculative practice

CHI 2039 : Speculative Research

This paper presents a curated collection of fictional abstracts for papers that could appear in the proceedings of the 2039 CHI Conference. It provides an opportunity to consider the various visions guiding work in HCI, the futures toward which we (believe we) are working, and how research in the field might relate with broader social, political, and cultural changes over the next quarter century.

Artistic Expression as Interpretation

According to R. G. Collingwood in The Principles of Art, art is the expression of emotion--a much-criticized view. I attempt to provide some groundwork for a defensible modern version of such a theory via some novel further criticisms of Collingwood, including the exposure of multiple ambiguities in his main concept of expression of emotion, and a demonstration that, surprisingly enough, his vi...

Reseau/Resonance: Connective Processes and Artistic Practice

Most Internet art projects use the Net solely as a telematic and telecommunicative transmission medium that connects computers and servers and through which artists, performers and users exchange data, communicate and collaboratively create files and events. At the same time, however, some artists are exploring the electronic networks as specific sociotechnical structures with their respective ...

Using Augmented Reality, Artistic Research and Mobile Phones to Explore Practice-based Learning

Introduction Mobile devices like smartphones, tablet computers, and wearable devices have been widely adapted and new technologies are constantly consumed. Pachler and colleagues (2010) clearly positioned that mobile learning is a rapidly emerging field of education research and practice and that developing theoretical and conceptual frameworks to explain the complex interrelationships between ...

Musealia - an artistic and documentary research project