Creative works that involve viewer input
Interactive art
is a form of
art
that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some interactive art
installations
achieve this by letting the observer walk through, over or around them; others ask the artist or the spectators to become part of the artwork in some way.
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Works of this kind of art frequently feature
computers
,
interfaces
and sometimes
sensors
to respond to motion, heat, meteorological changes or other types of input their makers have programmed the works to respond to. Most examples of virtual
Internet art
and
electronic art
are highly interactive. Sometimes, visitors are able to navigate through a
hypertext
environment; some works accept textual or visual input from outside; sometimes an audience can influence the course of a
performance
or can even participate in it. Some other interactive artworks are considered as immersive as the quality of interaction involve all the spectrum of surrounding stimuli.
Virtual reality
environments like works by
Maurice Benayoun
and
Jeffrey Shaw
are highly interactive as the work the spectators ? Maurice Benayoun call them "visitors", Miroslaw Rogala calls them (v)users,
Char Davies
"immersants" ? interact with take all their fields of perception.
Though some of the earliest examples of interactive art have been dated back to the 1920s, most
digital art
didn't make its official entry into the world of art until the late 1990s.
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Since this debut, countless museums and venues have been increasingly accommodating digital and interactive art into their productions. This budding genre of art is continuing to grow and evolve in a somewhat rapid manner through internet social sub-culture, as well as through large scale urban installations.
Interactivity in art
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Interactive art is a genre of art in which the viewers participate in some way by providing an input in order to determine the outcome. Unlike traditional art forms, wherein the interaction of the spectator is merely a mental event, interactivity allows for various types of navigation, assembly, and/or contribution to an artwork, which goes far beyond purely psychological activity.
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Interactivity as a medium produces meaning.
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Interactive art installations are generally computer-based and frequently rely on sensors, which gauge things such as temperature, motion, proximity, and other meteorological phenomena that the maker has programmed in order to elicit responses based on participant action. In interactive artworks, both the audience and the machine work together in dialogue in order to produce a unique artwork for each audience to observe. However, not all observers visualize the same picture. Because it is interactive art, each observer makes their own interpretation of the artwork and it may be completely different from another observer's views.
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Interactive art can be distinguished from
generative art
in that it constitutes a dialogue between the artwork and the participant; specifically, the participant has agency, or the ability, even in an unintentional manner, to act upon the artwork and is furthermore invited to do so within the context of the piece, i.e. the work affords the interaction. More often, we can consider that the work takes its visitor into account. In an increasing number of cases, an installation can be defined as a "responsive environment", especially those created by
architects
and
designers
. By contrast,
Generative Art
, which may be interactive, but not responsive per se, tends to be a monologue ? the artwork may change or evolve in the presence of the viewer, but the viewer may not be invited to engage in the reaction but merely enjoy it.
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History
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According to the new media artist and theorist
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Maurice Benayoun
, the first piece of interactive art should be the work done by
Parrhasius
during his art contest with
Zeuxis
described by
Pliny
, in the fifth century B.C. when Zeuxis tried to unveil the painted curtain. The work takes its meaning from Zeuxis' gesture and wouldn't exist without it. Zeuxis, by its gesture, became part of Parrhasius' work. This shows that the specificity of interactive art resides often less in the use of computers than in the quality of proposed "situations" and the "Other's" involvement in the process of
sensemaking
. Nevertheless, computers and real time computing made the task easier and opened the field of virtuality ? the potential emergence of unexpected (although possibly pre-written) futures ? to contemporary arts.
Some of the earliest examples of interactive art were created as early as the 1920s. An example is
Marcel Duchamp
’s piece named
Rotary Glass Plates
. The artwork required the viewer to turn on the machine and stand at a distance of one meter in order to see an optical illusion.
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The present idea of interactive art began to flourish more in the 1960s for partly political reasons. At the time, many people found it inappropriate for artists to carry the only creative power within their works.
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Those artists who held this view wanted to give the audience their own part of this creative process. An early example is found in the early 1960s "change-paintings" of
Roy Ascott
, about whom
Frank Popper
has written: "Ascott was among the first artists to launch an appeal for total spectator participation".
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Aside from the “political” view, it was also current wisdom that interaction and engagement had a positive part to play within the creative process.
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In the 1970s, artists began to use new technology such as
video
and
satellites
to experiment with live performances and interactions through the direct broadcast of video and audio.
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Interactive art became a large phenomenon due to the advent of computer-based interactivity in the 1990s. Along with this came a new kind of art-experience. Audience and machine were now able to more easily work together in dialogue in order to produce a unique artwork for each audience.
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In the late 1990s,
museums
and galleries began increasingly incorporating the art form in their shows, some even dedicating entire
exhibitions
to it.
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This continues today and is only expanding due to increased communications through digital media.
A hybrid emerging discipline drawing on the combined interests of specific artists and architects has been created in the last 10?15 years.
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Disciplinary boundaries have blurred, and significant number of architects and interactive designers have joined electronic artists in the creation of new, custom-designed interfaces and evolutions in techniques for obtaining user input (such as dog vision, alternative sensors,
voice analysis
, etc.); forms and tools for information display (such as
video projection
,
lasers
,
robotic
and
mechatronic
actuators
, led lighting etc.); modes for human-human and human-machine communication (through the
Internet
and other
telecommunications networks
); and to the development of social contexts for interactive systems (such as utilitarian tools, formal experiments, games and entertainment, social critique, and political liberation).
Forms
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There are many different forms of interactive art. Such forms range from interactive dance, music, and even drama.
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New technology, primarily computer systems and computer technology, have enabled a new class of interactive art.
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Examples of such interactive art are
installation art
,
interactive architecture
,
interactive film
, and
interactive storytelling
. Since there is a presumed participant or agent in interactivity, interactive art has a deep connection with performance art.
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Events and places
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There are number of globally significant festivals and exhibitions of interactive and media arts.
Prix Ars Electronica
is a major yearly competition and exhibition that gives awards to outstanding examples of (technology-driven) interactive art.
Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
, DEAF Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Transmediale Germany,
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival
Brazil, and AV Festival England, are among the others.
CAiiA,
Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts
, first established by
Roy Ascott
in 1994 at the
University of Wales, Newport
, and later in 2003 as the
Planetary Collegium
, was the first doctoral and post doc research center to be established specifically for research in the interactive art field.
Interactive architecture
has now been installed on and as part of building facades, in foyers, museums, and large scale public spaces, including airports, in a number of global cities. A number of leading museums, for example, the
National Gallery
,
Tate
,
Victoria & Albert Museum
, and
Science Museum
in
London
(to cite the leading UK museums active in this field) were early adopters in the field of interactive technologies, investing in educational resources, and more latterly, in the creative use of
MP3 players
for visitors. In 2004, the Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned curator and author Lucy Bullivant to write Responsive Environments (2006), the first such publication of its kind. Interactive designers are frequently commissioned for museum displays; a number specialize in wearable computing.
Tools
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See also
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Notes
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Chambre a Musique:
http://www.ludicart.com/historique/Chambre%20%C3%A0%20Musique%20CCL/Chambre_a_Musique_CCL.html
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a
b
Soler-Adillon, Joan (2015-12-21).
"The intangible material of interactive art: agency, behavior and emergence"
.
Artnodes
(16).
doi
:
10.7238/a.v0i16.2744
.
ISSN
1695-5951
.
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a
b
Paul, C:
Digital Art
, page 67. Thames & Hudson Inc, 2003.
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"Boundary Functions"
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a
b
c
Muller, L, Edmonds, E, Connel, M: "Living laboratories for interactive art",
CoDesign
, 2(4):3
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Paul, C:
Digital Art
, page 11. Thames & Hudson Inc, 2003.
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Popper, Frank (2007). From Technological to Virtual Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 77.
ISBN
978-0-262-16230-2
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Edmonds, E, Muller, L, Connel, M: "On creative engagement",
Visual Communication
, 5(307):3
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Paul, C:
Digital Art
, page 18. Thames & Hudson Inc, 2003.
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Paul, C:
Digital Art
, page 23. Thames & Hudson Inc, 2003.
- ^
"10.000 Moving Cities ? Same but Different, AR (Augmented Reality) Multiplayer Game, Art Installation, 2018"
. Marc Lee
. Retrieved
2018-12-26
.
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Dannenberg, R, Bates, J: "
A model for interactive art
",
Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology
, 51(78):2
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Dannenberg, R, Bates, J: "A model for interactive art",
Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology
, 51(78):1
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Dixon, Steve (2007).
Digital Performance A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation
. Boston: MIT Press. pp. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
ISBN
9780262042352
.
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Maurizio Bolognini
, "De l'interaction a la democratie. Vers un art generatif post-digital" /
"From interactivity to democracy. Towards a post-digital generative art"
, in
Ethique, esthetique, communication technologique
, Edition L'Harmattan. Paris, 2011, pp. 229-239.
Further reading
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- Frank Popper
,
Art?Action and Participation
, New York University Press, 1975
- Ascott, R.2003.
Telematic Embrace: visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness
. (
Edward A. Shanken
, ed.) Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Roy Ascott
. 2002.
Technoetic Arts
(Editor and Korean translation: YI, Won-Kon), (Media & Art Series no. 6, Institute of Media Art, Yonsei University). Yonsei: Yonsei University Press
- Ascott, R. 1998.
Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics
. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara). A. Takada & Y. Yamashita eds. Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.
- Barreto, Ricardo and Perissinotto, Paula
“the_culture_of_immanence”
, in Internet Art. Ricardo Barreto e Paula Perissinotto (orgs.). Sao Paulo, IMESP, 2002.
ISBN
85-7060-038-0
.
- Brown, Kathryn,
Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice
, (I.B. Tauris, 2014).
- Bullivant, Lucy,
Responsive Environments: architecture, art and design
, V&A Contemporary, 2006. London:Victoria and Albert Museum.
ISBN
1-85177-481-5
- Bullivant, Lucy,
4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments
. London: AD/John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
ISBN
978-0-470-31911-6
- Bullivant, Lucy,
4dspace: Interactive Architecture
. London: AD/John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
ISBN
0-470-09092-8
- Dinkla, Soke, "Pioniere Interaktiver Kunst von 1970 bis heute". Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1997.
ISBN
9783893229239
- Dreher, Thomas,
The observer as actor in Happenings and context-sensitive installations. A short history of re- and interactive art/Der Beobachter als Akteur in Happenings und umweltsensitiven Installationen. Eine kleine Geschichte der re- & interaktiven Kunst
, in German
http://dreher.netzliteratur.net/4_Medienkunst_Text.html
]
- Thomas Dreher: History of Computer Art
, chap. V: Reactive Installations and Virtual Reality
- Fleischmann, Monika and Reinhard, Ulrike (eds.).
Digital Transformations - Media Art as at the Interface between Art, Science, Economy and Society
online at
netzspannung.org
, 2004,
ISBN
3-934013-38-4
- Ernest Edmonds, Linda Candy, Mark Fell, Roger Knott, Sandra Pauletto, Alastair Weakley. 2003.
Developing Interactive Art Using Visual Programming
. In: Constantine Stephanidis & Julie Jacko (Editors), Human-Computer Interaction: Theory and Practice, (Part II). Volume 2. (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete, June 23?27), Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London, June 2003, pp. 1183?1187,
ISBN
0-8058-4931-9
- Ernest Edmonds, Greg Turner, Linda Candy. 2004.
Approaches to interactive art systems
,
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and South East Asia
, June 15?18, 2004, Singapore
- Fleischmann, Monika; Strauss, Wolfgang (eds.) (2001).
Proceedings
of
≫CAST01//Living in Mixed Realities≪
Intl. Conf. On Communication of Art, Science and Technology, Fraunhofer IMK 2001, 401.
ISSN
1618-1379
(Print),
ISSN
1618-1387
(Internet).
- Oliver Grau
Virtual Art, from Illusion to Immersion
, MIT Press 2004, pp. 237?240,
ISBN
0-262-57223-0
- Christiane Paul
(2003).
Digital Art
(World of Art series). London: Thames & Hudson.
ISBN
0-500-20367-9
- Peter Weibel
and
Jeffrey Shaw
,
Future Cinema
, MIT Press 2003, pp. 472,572-581,
ISBN
0-262-69286-4
- Wilson, Steve,
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science
, and Technology
ISBN
0-262-23209-X
- Edward A. Shanken
,
Art and Electronic Media
. London: Phaidon, 2009.
ISBN
978-0-7148-4782-5
- (in Spanish)
Juan Martin Prada
,
Interactividad electronica e interaccion social
, (Chapter 7 of
Practicas artisticas e Internet en la epoca de las redes sociales
), AKAL, Madrid, 2012
- (in French)
Jean-Robert Sedano
,
L'art interactif en jeu
, Un livre interactif avec QR codes et anaglyphes, 2016, Editions Ludicart,
ISBN
978-2-9555803-0-1
- Morignat Valerie,
Real Presences Within Virtual Worlds
, Actualites du recit. Pratiques, theories, modeles”, Volume 34 numero 2-3, 2006, sous la direction de Rene Audet et Nicolas Xanthos]
- Morignat Valerie,
Presences reelles dans les mondes virtuels
, Actualites du recit. Pratiques, theories, modeles”, Volume 34 numero 2-3, 2006, sous la direction de Rene Audet et Nicolas Xanthos]
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