Debris: Intermingling ethnography with design and artistic practice

This Gallery proposal focuses on the debris left behind by human's daily interactions with non-human agents, with the end goal of providing arts-infused lenses to investigate and help untangle our complex relationships with smart systems. Debris is the outcome of a process that intermingles ethnographic tactics with design probing techniques and artistic practice. The Debris – a series of art pieces resulting from this process – are offered to the EPIC 2019 community alongside artifacts that were used to inform art pieces: ethnographic data collected during the interviews, probing toolkit used to augment interview data, and the thought process of the two involved ethnographers/designers/artists, in the form of notes and sketches.

This collection of art pieces, objects, visual commentaries, humans-about-machines accounts represent the fragments that are left behind by human interactions with smart agents - we offer them to prompt reflections, re-connections, and re-discoveries of human-non-human hybrid landscapes.