Computing and the Arts: Establishing Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Angela Schöpke-Gonzalez, Kellie Dunn, Shaowen Bardzell, Makayla Lewis, Maria Murray, Catherine Wieczorek · 2025
The last five years have resulted in substantial changes to how computing affects work, how work affects computing, and how work and computing operate in tandem to affect society. From advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and virtual/extended reality, to the entrenchment of hybrid and remote work arrangements, and the documented harmful societal impacts that computing work has produced, these changes to computing-work relationships raise concern and opportunities to reimagine these relationships in new ways. CSCW has an opportunity and a responsibility to ensure that the kinds of futures we imagine and enact benefit workers, communities, and future generations. Artistic research is well-positioned to help us not only understand, but imagine new pathways forward in response to pressing CSCW questions. By hosting a panel of experts in artistic methods well-equipped to help us imagine these futures, we expect to lay the groundwork for mutually respectful cross-disciplinary collaboration between arts and computing that makes more space in our field for different kinds of thinking, approaches to problems, and new imaginaries.