Arty Portfolios: Manifesting Artistic Work in Interaction Design Research

Abstract

As artist researchers in HCI, we experience the lack of appropriate ways to describe and communicate artistic work and its value for and influences on interaction design research practice. We introduce the arty portfolio approach to support artistic research within HCI. Arty portfolios value reflection, articulation and communication of artistic work in HCI. Presenting our own work and its relation to our research, we demonstrate and reflect on the mutual influences between our artistic inquiries and interaction design practice. We explore arty portfolios' potentials to strengthen artistic enquiry in the context of HCI.