Art.CHI 2015 in Korea
Fri, 24 Apr 2015
Last weekend saw the Art.CHI 2015 workshop take place at the CHI conference in South Korea. CHI (Computer Human Interaction) has been going for quite a while, but the idea of running arts activities in parallel with the main conference is fairly new.
I was involved in an exhibition of artworks when CHI came to Paris a couple of years ago (I showed a ColourNet piece in collaboration with Ernest Edmonds) and although I couldn't make it to South Korea for this one, I did produce the website for the workshop.
The website (there is a paper catalogue as well) presents 18 artworks that were selected from an open call made early in the year. The works were then presented at the workshop and served as the basis for discussion about how Art.CHI might develop further in the future.
There are some very interesting pieces in the selection and the website makes fascinating reading. May of the artworks have accompanying videos that explain them in more detail. The site can be found at http://art-chi.org.
Next year's CHI conference takes place in San Jose in early May 2016. There will be a full Art.CHI exhibition at the event - fingers crossed I can get to that one!
