Artifacts

The artifacts category seeks to provide participants with an opportunity to present work in a forum that facilitates open discussion and enables direct interaction with conference attendees. A dedicated session will be held during the conference to present the artifacts.

Artifacts can be anything from design sketchbooks, to reformed organizational processes, to ads you’ve produced, to products you’ve made, to short films, to conceptual objects, etc. We encourage submissions that are thought provoking and visually engaging, and which cover exploratory/speculative work, smaller projects, unusual representations of ethnographic work, and so on. The form of the presented materials is open. In keeping with the category title artifacts though, we encourage submissions based on some material instantiation that can be exhibited at the conference. Our hope is that it will be the ‘thinginess’ of the artifacts that will, in part, prompt interaction with and between conference attendees.

Proposal submission deadline April 17, 2011

Requirements: 

Submissions should include a single page describing or illustrating the proposed submission (the one page inclusive of any and all figures and references, where appropriate). This page should convey to reviewers what the artifact being submitted is and how it is hoped to provoke discussion. The page will also be included in the published conference proceedings.

Also included in the submissions should be a paragraph and image (no more that 150 words) that can be displayed on the conference website.

Descriptions (including images) of accepted artifacts will be published in the EPIC 2011 Proceedings.

The artifact itself should be transported to Boulder for the conference.

Submission information: 

We welcome your participation. Submission is a two-step process.

  1. Create an account with your email address. A user id will be created for you, and a temporary access password emailed. (You need to do this only one, however many types of submissions you make.)
  2. Submit via the EPIC submission and review system - you will need login credentials from step 1.