Disruptive Improvisation: Making Use of Non-Deterministic Art Practices in
HCI
Saturday, April 21 2018
ACM CHI 2018 Workshop, Montreal, Canada
Website: https://disruptiveimprovisation.wordpress.com/
As material exploration grows as a mode of inquiry within HCI community, it
opens space to consider new forms of inquiry within design processes. This
workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the
value of and develop tactics for non-deterministic design practices in HCI.
Taking inspiration from Fluxus, we will focus on the generative capacity of
simple, non-digital, lightweight, and even useless prototypes. These modest
and emergent objects open spaces of contestation and speculation, giving
rise to unexpected insights that may not come about through more refined
practices.
This one-day workshop will create a space for people interested in design
research, materiality, and arts-inspired approaches to HCI to reflect on
different techniques and productive forms of material disruption within a
design process. The workshop will combine hands-on experimentation,
comparison of experiences, and the production of an experimental
instruction zine workbook to be distributed at CHI 2018.
We invite submissions on the following themes:
- Modesty. Producing forms that tackle a small piece of a broader issue.
Employing formal modesty in terms of materials and construction, aesthetics
of experimentation and openness to simplicity, partialness, and
incompleteness.
- Scarcity. Making things quickly and/or with limited
budgets/resources/materials. Using self-imposed constraints to break habits
and open new perspectives.
- Uselessness. Designing and making things without a preoccupation with
conventional functionality. Allowing objects to take on lives apart from
utility.
- No-technology. Exploring issues relevant to HCI, digital culture, and
human-technology relationships through non- or less technological means.
- Failure. Trying things without knowing where they’ll lead. Being open
to and reporting on failure.
*Submitting a Position Paper*
Interested participants are invited to submit a 2-4 page position paper in
CHI extended abstract format describing the following:
1. a research project (past, current or future) where the aforementioned
themes played a key role.
2. a tactic for “disruptive improvisation” – a description of a short
task that can be performed by the participants of the workshop with the
goal of breaking habit, perceptions, and/or meditating on one of the
workshop themes. Ideally, the tactic takes the form of an instruction set
or recipe for making, and follows the spirit of Fluxus event scores.
3. a brief (200 word) personal biography.
Submissions will be published in the workshop webpage (https://
disruptiveimprovisation.wordpress.com). During the workshop, participants
will present and perform the tactics in the submissions, documenting the
processes, outcomes and insights in the form of a zine that will be
informally distributed during the CHI conference. Participants who prefer
not to have their work published in the zine can opt-out. Further
instructions about the workshop, schedule, and on the format for the
“disruptive improvisation” can be found on the workshop webpage.
Submissions will be accepted based on quality and interest and will
represent a spectrum of practices, materials, backgrounds, and concerns.
Submissions may be sent via email to workshop organizers at
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*Important Dates*
Submission Deadline: 26 January 2018
Author Notification: 22 February 2018
Workshop Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018
*Attending*
At least one author of each accepted position paper must register and
attend the workshop. All workshop participants must register for both the
workshop and for at least one day of the ACM CHI conference.
*Organizers*
Kristina Andersen, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Laura Devendorf, University of Colorado, Boulder
James Pierce, University of California, Berkeley
Daniela K. Rosner, University of Washington
Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University & Eindhoven University of Technology
(TU/e)
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