Digital Making for Inheritance and Enlivening Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case of Hairy Monkey Handicrafts

Liu, G., Ding, X. , Cai, J., Wang, W., Wang, X., Diao, Y., Chen, J., Yu, T., Xu, H. and Mi, H. (2023) Digital Making for Inheritance and Enlivening Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case of Hairy Monkey Handicrafts. In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 Apr 2023, p. 635. ISBN 9781450394215 (doi: 10.1145/3544548.3581539)

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Abstract

Digital technologies can conduct an important role in preserving intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Nonetheless, existing work tends to be limited to digital storage, presentation, dissemination, and education, with comparatively little concentrating on production and reproduction of the craft, the key to revitalizing ICH. In this paper, we explore digital making as an approach for both the inheritance and innovation of ICH handicrafts. Taking Hairy Monkey craftsmanship as an instance, we conducted a workshop with 15 groups of makers, teaching them the traditional Hairy Monkey craft and subsequently enabling them to create innovative works with digital technologies in their own time. As revealed by our interviews with these participants, ICH brings cultural inspiration to digital making, and digital making rejuvenates ICH through innovative art forms and its positive influence on participants. As demonstrated in this paper, digital technologies can be deeply integrated with ICH through making to revitalize ICH from the core through living transmission.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Additional Information:This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2020YFC1523001) and Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program (No. 2022Z04W03004).
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Ding, Dr Sharon and Wang, Miss Weiyun
Authors: Liu, G., Ding, X., Cai, J., Wang, W., Wang, X., Diao, Y., Chen, J., Yu, T., Xu, H., and Mi, H.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
ISBN:9781450394215
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2023 The Authors
First Published:First published in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: 635
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License
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