The Interface Ecology Lab, directed by Associate Professor Andruid Kerne of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, is exhibiting the Art.CHI 2015 gallery with innovative forms of curation in the ACM CHI 2015 Conference in Seoul, South Korea this month. Art.CHI 2015 is an exhibition of leading interactive art.
The web form of the Art.CHI 2015 digital composition, curated by Andrew Web, doctoral candidate in computer science, holistically connects and interprets the works that comprise the Art.CHI 2015 catalog.
"The Interface Ecology Lab members are exhibiting this composition, titled Light Bounces: Space and Body," using two forms of its novel expressive web curation system, IdeaMâché: one in browsers on the web, and one, body-based, in ACM CHI 2015 Interactivity in Seoul," said Kerne.
During ACM CHI 2015, the premier international forum for human-computer interaction, doctoral students Webb, William Hamilton, Nic Lupfer, and Rhema Linder, senior computer science student Cameron Hill, and Principal Investigator Kerne presented their exhibit and paper, "The Art.CHI Gallery: An Embodied Iterative Curation Experience," in the Interactivity(#i164) segment of the conference program.
"Here, participants engage in a curation experience by using their bodies to explore the Light Bounces: Space and Body composition, a novel form of zoomable spatial interface responds to body movement and gestures, which are tracked with a Microsoft Kinect for Windows V2," said Kerne. "This provides an experience model, which Body-based IdeaMâché uses to generate a personalized, iterative re-curation of the Art.CHI 2015 catalog.
"A unique QR code is assigned to the experience, which enables each participant to manipulate their personalized composition on individual web-browsers, initially on stations at the exhibit. The participant then takes this personalized curation home, through the cloud, as a rich souvenir, a record and reference point of their experience at the body-based exhibit of Art.CHI. Embodied Iterative Curation is the project of Interface Ecology Lab."
For more information, email artchi@ecologylab.net and browse http://ecologylab.net/artchi.