Chinese CHI 2023 Call for Artworks
Call for Artworks
Chinese CHI 2023 is structured as a hybrid conference from Nov 13-14, 2023 in Bali, Indonesia.
This year’s Chinese CHI Art Gallery & Competition circles around the creation of artworks that symbolically, aesthetically, experientially recognize the need for distributed agency and enlivened accountability. This track intends to attract diverse artworks, creative inquiry, and arts-inclusive practices that emphasize inter-, trans- and anti-disciplinarity and bring awareness to HCI thinking and making. In coordination with the Chinese CHI 23 theme of Generative · Reflective · Envisioning, we encourage submissions of critical and experimental approaches to the art-making as well as, its contexts.
Recommended Themes
- Health & Accessibility Design
- Edutainment & Knowledge
- Tools for Daily Living & Productivity
- Sociability
- Future Environment & Sustainable Design
- Traditional culture & Art innovation
- AIGC
- Others
The Chinese CHI 23 Arts Gallery & Competition will combine both a physical space for experiencing works and an online selection for exhibition. Selected digital works will also be shown within the exhibition space in Bali.
Preparing and Submitting
The artworks proposed can include many different forms, including installation, video, sound, vision, and performance, as well as works that are not so easily categorized.
Submissions to the Arts Gallery & Competition for Chinese CHI2023 are non-anonymous (i.e. names and affiliations should be included in the proposal materials).
Submissions must be made through the following link (click Read More at the end of the article or scan the QR code below):
https://ayn9fuztpg.feishu.cn/share/base/form/shrcnV6uizobU6mjXOsejtDmIsd
Each artwork can only be submitted once. If you have any questions, please contact Art Gallery & Competition Chairs at artworkchchi@126.com.
Submissions must include the following five elements:
- Introduction:
- An abstract 300 words long (including references, but references DO NOT count towards the word limits.) should include the following:
- Description of the work including written texts, images, sound, video
- Artist’s statement giving background to the ideas and creation process
- Inspiration, sources, materials, and any research related to the artwork
- Artist Profile: short bio, including previous exhibitions
- Static Image: Also required is one still image of the work of at least 1500×1200 pixels for describing your work.
- Video: In addition, artists are strongly encouraged to submit a video of up to 2 mins in length for review purposes only. In this case, authors must provide less than 100MB (in MP4 using the codec H264) or provide a link (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo) in the proposal document. The video may be password protected; if this is the case, submitters must include the password with the link.
- Artwork Specification and Needs: A separate supplemental specification document as a PDF file should be included. This should describe installation and space requirements for the work, as well as the indicative size and any unusual setup requirements. The specification should include up to four photographs or diagrams of the setup, and should outline basic technical requirements needed. In addition, this document should detail any potential risks (e.g. safety) and how the artwork intends to manage these risks.
- Authorization (after acceptance): After the artwork has been officially accepted, the author's group will be required to submit an authorization statement for the use of the artwork to the Chinese CHI Committee for online and offline exhibition and dissemination.
Awards
All finalists earn a Certificate of Recognition. The winning entry will be recognized during the closing plenary session of the Chinese CHI 2023 conference. There will be one "Best Artwork Award," two "Academy Awards," three "Innovation Awards," and five "Rising Star Awards."
Selection Process and Criteria for Selection
We are looking for insightful, playful, thought-provoking, evocative, critical, digital and interactive art experiences created by as diverse and broad group of creative practitioners as possible.
Submitted proposal documents may be selected for the exhibition catalog (and conference proceedings) or for both the exhibition catalog (and conference proceedings) and the exhibition.
Selection of works for exhibition in Bali will be based on the following criteria.
- Originality and Novelty: the proposal should demonstrate work that is highly original, creative and imaginative. It should exemplify novel concepts in surprising and challenging ways that add something to what exists already.
- Aesthetics: the work should have a strong aesthetic element and communicate effectively through form, function, behavior and emotion. Aesthetically interesting qualities include features that are pleasing and exciting as well as provocative.
- Realization: the work should have a tangible aspect, in the form of an installation, object or art piece that can be included at a reasonable cost. It should be built and executed to a high standard suitable to be exhibited at Chinese CHI 23.
- Response to theme: The work provides a critical or reflective response or commentary to the main conference theme of resilience.
At the Conference/Selected Works
Selected works will be displayed as part of the Art Gallery. Selected artists should be available prior to the main conference for installation of artworks. Full instructions will be provided at the time of acceptance.
*Please note that no funds are available to support the shipping or insurance of artworks or for artists’ fees. Suitable insurance should be arranged by individual contributors. Exhibiting artists in situ in Bali must be willing to deal with the delivery and installation of any works and provide suitable instructions for any operation details. Artists will need to make arrangements for the removal of their work after the physical show should they be selected. All works must be original and non-infringing of other rights holders within a legal definition.
Venue
To be announced. A gallery space on or near the Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center at UID Bali Campus, Kura Kura Bali.
Chinese CHI 2023 Art Gallery & Competition Chair
Danqing Shi, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Lin Lin, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
Yuan Yao, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Qi Chen, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Zhijun Gao, Peking University, Beijing, China
Guanhong Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
If you have any question, please contact