New technology, New art: studies of collaborative research in art and technologyProfessor Ernest Edmonds Tuesday 2nd March 2004 at 11am AbstractThe seminar describes research collaborations between an HCI team and artists who were artist-in-residence with the group. The collaborations resulted in new performance art works, new interactive works and a new instruments and art forms. The research included a full study of the processes of collaboration and innovation. The creative user always seems to want something different to what the technologist has provided. Being creative, they come up with new ideas, change their minds and, from a system designer's point of view, always move the design goal posts. The seminar describes research that has been investigating how future systems should, and could, support creative practice. The presentation will discuss the implications of this research for building new information technology environments and developing new art forms. Short resumeProfessor Ernest Edmonds is the Director of the Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney. He is an artist who has used digital technology since 1968 and has shown his work in, for example, the UK, Russia, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. His research in Human-Computer Interaction has led to more than 160 publications. He has been an invited speaker in the USA, Europe, Japan, Malaysia and Australia. Recent research has focused on creativity and the creative user. Ernest Edmonds was Chairman of the Access and Creativity Task Group for the UK's Technology Foresight programme and leader of its mission to Japan - The Interaction of Art and Technology. He was a member of ATR's Art and Technology Advisory Committee, Kyoto Japan. He is Chairman of the ACM SIGCHI Creativity & Cognition Conference series. His latest book, with Linda Candy, is "Explorations in Art and Technology" (Springer 2002) [http://www.ernestedmonds.com] |