ICT&ART Connect: Connecting ICT & Art Communities Project Outcomes

Abstract

This chapter broadly addresses the activities and revelations resulting from the author’s coordination of the European Commission funded project, FET-Art from September 2013 to June 2014 as they pertain to the CHI 2014 workshop April 2014 on Curating the Digital: Spaces for Art and Interaction theme of “fostering collaborations between artists and technologists via Catalog”. This chapter covers some of the findings and outcomes of the EU funded FET-Art project, which included performances, exhibitions, and artist-technologist matchmaking events, which led to collaborative residencies around Europe during an intensive 9-month period. These outcomes, and the author’s experience in coordinating the artistic dimension of this project, were to contribute to the workshop discussion on the issues of Art-Tech collaboration for the CHI workshop. The chapter reviews the rationale and aims of the FET-Art project, its activities, the approach used to bring the artists and technologists communities together from around Europe, efforts to develop updated methods to facilitate art-tech collaborations and study them, as well as some of the outcomes of those selected and initiated during the project.