Colin Clark
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Solution Network Co-Director
Data Communities for Inclusion
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
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About
Colin Clark is an inclusive design researcher and media artist whose work is concerned with issues of self-agency, ownership, and access to technology-mediated creativity by communities. Colin is currently the Director of Design and Technology at the Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society (IRIS), where his research focuses on the community-led
design and governance of inclusive technology platforms. He has written about and developed accessible programming systems and authoring environments, with an emphasis on multi-representational programming and user-continued design including coding tools for students with complex disabilities and creative technology frameworks for artists. Colin’s creative
practice as an improviser and video artist explores the ways that technologies produce new temporalities and senses of time.
Relevant Publications
- Clark, C., Winn, E. (2022) "Mesh Cooperativism: Toward Mycorrhizal (Infra)structure for the Cooperative Movement." Presented at the International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research European Research Conference 2022.
Clark, C., Lewis, C., Bates, S., Shahi S. (2019) “Coding to Learn and Create: New Modes of Programming for Learners Who Have Been Left Out.” In Proceedings of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group Annual Conference 2019.
Basman, A., Clark C., Lewis, C. (2018). “The Open Authorial Principle – Supporting Networks of Authors in Creating Externalisable Designs.” In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software. (pp. 29-43).
Clark, C. and Shahi, S (2018). “On Continuing Creativity.” In Proceedings of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group Annual Conference 2018.
Clark, C. and Basman A. (2017). “Tracing a Paradigm for Externalization: Avatars and the GPII Nexus.” In Programming ’17: Companion to the first International Conference on the Art, Science and Engineering of Programming 2017. Association for Computing Machinery. (Article 31 pp. 1-5).
Clark, C. Ayotte, D., Basman A., & Treviranus, J. (2016) “About Us, With Us: The Fluid Project’s Inclusive Design Tools.” In Part 1 of the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016. Springer International Publishing. (pp.172-182).