Sean Clark

Tango Apart: Moving Together

Tango Apart: Moving Together is an interactive digital art system that has two or more communicating parts in different locations. Although each part is able to work independently, they also operate together, connecting the different locations and providing an aesthetic communication channel and creative participation. In particular, the work will connect CHI2016s Interactivity with its Art Exhibition. Through the addition of mobile phone components, CHI participants will be able to join and experience the work throughout the conference, out and about in San Jose and back home afterwards.

Art.CHI II: Digital Art in a Post-Digital World

At CHI2015 our Art.CHI initiative led to a two-day workshop, an art catalog and presentations during Interactivity. The long-term plan is to turn this into a regular feature of CHI. For CHI2016 we will additionally use a gallery space within the Conference concourse. This workshop will invite digital artists to present their work, discuss its immediate impact with other digital artists and consider long-term issues and investigations in the interface between CHI and digital art. Towards this end our theme for Art.CHI II is Digital Art in a Post-Digital World.

ColourNet: a system of interactive and interacting digital artworks

ColourNet is a digital art system composed of a set interactive and interacting artworks. Although the artworks are able to work independently, they can also operate together to provide enhanced possibilities for human interaction and creative participation. We describe the ColourNet digital art system and demonstrate how people can interact with a smartphone artwork and a screen-based work that each interact with one another.

Locative media and situated learning

This article covers the conception and development of Empedia, a new locative software environment for mobile phones specifically designed for expanded archives, documentary and heritage/historical interpretation, using situated and collaborative learning, at resonant and related sites. It will examine our developmental methods employed through a number of workshops for pilot projects, employed specifically to test the reception of rich media assets and augmented reality features in a simple open source user interface and authoring environment for iPhone and browser consumption. The research projects at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) examined here include: a D. H. Lawrence Heritage Blue Line trail in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (2009); Riverains, a dramatised history trail in Shoreditch, London (2010); and the use of collaborative documentary in Codes of Disobedience and Dysfunctionality in Athens (2011).