EAGER: Collaborative Research: Transformative Innovation for Sustainable HCI through Interventionist Eco-Arts

关于可持续发展的人机交互(HCI)研究最近出现了爆炸性增长。该项目的目标是指导可持续人机界面的进一步发展，为该领域的研究提供信息，了解当代干预主义的生态艺术实践。我们所说的“干预主义生态艺术实践”指的是一系列艺术家和项目，这些艺术家和项目将公众和机构的参与与对可持续发展的承诺结合在一起，制作干预环境问题的文物和系统，以提高人们的意识，并为社会变革提供模式。通过这样的活动，艺术家们打破了我们如何使用和思考技术及其与环境的关系的界限。这些干预主义的生态艺术艺术家和项目提出了新的主题和工作实践，可以有效地为可持续的人机界面提供信息。但由于它们出生在传统科学之外，以艺术为基础的方法在被接受和认真对待为人机界面的一部分方面遇到了挑战。一方面，艺术产生的方法和结果最容易被纳入到人机界面中，方法是将它们重新调整为对人机界面作为一门科学学科的现有理解，削弱了它们真正增加新视角的潜力。另一方面，保持艺术敏感性的方法和结果可能会被视为“艺术的人机界面”的边缘地位，这种基于艺术的方法更有可能被认为是可接受的边缘工作或一次性系统，而不是被认为是适当的或关键的人机界面的核心研究。在这一项目中，将在2010年9月16日至19日在加利福尼亚州圣何塞举行的2010年SJ双年展上，通过对干预主义生态艺术实践的民族志案例研究，为可持续的人机界面和干预主义生态艺术实践之间的跨学科接触奠定基础。01 SJ双年展是国际主要媒体艺术节之一。它吸引了数以万计的参观者；超过60名艺术家、设计师和集体计划参加2010年的展览。2010年的主题是“建设你自己的世界”，大多数参与的项目都有一个共同的主题，那就是开发替代、协作和自己动手(DIY)的方法，以满足社会和环境条件。因此，它为在有限的空间和时间框架内对一系列项目和做法进行人种学研究提供了一个独特的机会。这项研究将开展以下活动：(1)观察和分析在2010年01SJ双年展上提出的生态艺术项目；(2)参与者--作为受委托的艺术/设计集体在双年度进行观察；(3)举办项目讲习班，综合前两项活动的成果，为可持续的人机界面制定一套关键主题；(4)对双年展的艺术家和策展人进行后续访谈。

Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) on sustainability has recently exploded. The goal of this project is to guide further development of sustainable HCI by informing research in the area with an understanding of contemporary interventionist eco-art practices. By "interventionist eco-art practices" we are referring to a set of artists and projects that combine public and institutional engagement with a commitment to sustainability, to produce artifacts and systems that intervene in environmental issues to raise awareness and provide models for social change. Through such activities, artists push the boundaries of how we use and think about technology and its relationship to the environment. These interventionist eco-art artists and projects suggest new themes and work practices that could usefully inform sustainable HCI. But because they are born from far outside of the traditional sciences, arts-based approaches run into challenges in being taken up and taken seriously as part of HCI. On the one hand, methods and outcomes deriving from the arts are most easily incorporated into HCI by retro-fitting them to existing understandings of HCI as a scientific discipline in ways that blunt their potential to truly add new perspectives. On the other hand, methods and outcomes that remain true to an arts sensibility can suffer marginal status as "artsy HCI" such arts-based approaches are more likely to be considered acceptable for fringework or one-off systems than to be thought of as appropriate or essential for the core research of HCI. In either case, the "edge" of arts-based approaches, that could provide transformative potential for innovation, is dulled.In this project, groundwork for transdisciplinary engagement between sustainable HCI and interventionist eco-art practices will be laid through an ethnographic case study of interventionist eco-arts practices at the 2010 01 SJ Biennial in San Jose, California to be held September 16 to 19, 2010. The 01SJ Biennial is one of the major international media arts festivals. It attracts tens of thousands of visitors; over 60 artists, designers and collectives are scheduled to participate in the 2010. The theme of 2010 is "Build Your Own World" and the majority of participating projects share a common theme of developing alternative, collaborative and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approaches social and environmental conditions. As such, it provides a unique opportunity for ethnographic study of a range of projects and practices within a bounded space and timeframe. This research will engage in the following activities (1) observation and analysis of eco-arts projects presented at the 2010 01SJ Biennial; (2) participant-observation in the Biennial as a commissioned art/design collective (3) a project workshop to integrate the results of the first two activities and develop a set of key themes for sustainable HCI (4) follow-on interviews with artists from and the curator of the Biennial.