*Upcoming* TEI 2026 Performance - Chicago, Illinois, USA
Performing at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI)
The TEI 2026 Arts and Performance Call:
As TEI celebrates its 20th anniversary, we invite artistic explorations that reflect on the resurgence of tangible interaction practices and the convergence of diverse disciplines that have shaped our field. Like the rhythmic tides that connect distant shores, tangible interaction research has created currents that flow between art, technology, craft, design, and human experience. At this pivotal moment, we recognize that convergence is our path forward, a necessary response to the complexities of our time.
The theme "Resurgence and Convergence" challenges us to consider how different ways of knowing become "tied" together through tangible interaction, creating new possibilities for community, understanding, and collective action. We seek artworks that embody the cyclical nature of technological innovation and artistic practice, that emerge from informal, grassroots technological communities, and that find common ground across disciplinary boundaries. This is a call for works that demonstrate how convergent practices can address the urgent need for connection, collaboration, and shared meaning-making in an increasingly fragmented world.
