ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the background and origin of the artistic series CREATE Your IoT. The series is a very special one as it is being created and hosted at the heart of the Large-Scale Pilots Programme of the European Union (LSPs). The series puts artworks at the core and makes them the motive for dialogue between all actual and potential stakeholders in use-cases of the LSPs aiming at pointing out ways of how other innovative actions can be implemented on top of the developments made available by LSPs. The text looks at how art and technology are intrinsically related, how art practices historically expanded their field of action to make the world and life a canvas and how more recently the influence of artistic ideas in the creation of new products, services and processes is irrevocable. More specific examples of this connection between technology and the arts in the field of ICT and IoT are presented. Finally, an updated report on ongoing artistic actions in the context of the CREATE IoT coordination and support action are presented.
