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Apps for art's sake: resistance and innovation

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MobileHCI '13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2493190.2493205

Published: 27 August 2013 Publication History

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The paper reports on the growing phenomena of art-making on mobile devices and contributes findings from two studies of artists' responses to iPad painting apps: the first is a series of exploratory workshops where artists were recruited to engage with a range of art apps, the second is a series of in-depth interviews with two artists who had incorporated the device and Brushes app into their painting practice over a period of months and years. The artists in both studies generally agreed that the devices and apps were easy to use and enjoyable but remained ambivalent about the technologies and outcomes. Although there was excitement around new creative possibilities there were also tensions around the status of the work being produced. The paper reflects on the role of popular digital production apparatus and information exchange on the constitution of artist-identities at a time of rapid techno-cultural change. It argues that while tablet computing and art apps have democratized certain artistic processes these technologies have generated conflict with traditional conceptions of art and curation.

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1. Human-centered computing

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MobileHCI '13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

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Boulanger CBakhshi SKaye JShamma DFoth MJu WSchroeter RViller S(2016)The Design, Perception, and Practice of Tablet PhotographyProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/2901790.2901810(84-95)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2901790.2901810
Clarke RBriggs JLight AHeitlinger SCrivellaro CJones MPalanque PSchmidt AGrossman T(2014)Socially engaged arts practice in HCICHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2559206.2559227(69-74)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2559206.2559227
Blythe MJones MPalanque PSchmidt AGrossman T(2014)Research through design fictionProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2556288.2557098(703-712)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2556288.2557098

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