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In the News (Thu 3 Dec 09)

  
  Williamson Gallery
Such a "history", however, overlooks the fact that interactive art is firmly rooted in the aesthetic upheavals of the 20th century.
Interactivity is seen by many cultural elitists as a fad, inseparable from the all-pervasive banal discourses of technoculture.
Interactive art, however, is "intra active", creating a monologic loop between the user and his/her self-representations, mediated by technology.
www.artcenter.edu /exhibit/digital/essay.html   (1934 words)

  
 Interactive Art
A second characteristic of the interaction is grounded in the physicality of the piano keyboard and the familiar conventions of interaction with a piano.
The paradigms of interactivity that have been integrated into the public psyche are so dangerously limited that unless they are expanded in an intuitive manner, interactive art is at risk of becoming subservient to the entertainment ind ustry, constantly having to borrow its modes of interaction from those that already exist.
In the future a public discourse on interactive art may have a rich tradition and vocabulary to pull from, however, in the mean time it is the job of the interactive artists to create works which necessitate its devel opment.
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /~rp3h/interactive.html   (984 words)

  
 Interactive art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interactive Art can be distinguished from Reactive Art, Electronic Art, or Immersive Art in that it is a dialog between the piece and the participant; specifically, the participant has "agency" (the ability to act upon) the piece and is furthermore invited to do so in the context of the piece, i.e.
In contrast, Reactive Art tends to be a monologue -- the artwork may change form in the presence of the viewer but the viewer may not be invited to engage in the reaction but "merely" enjoy it.
The Prix Ars Electronica is a major yearly competition that gives awards to outstanding examples of (technology-driven) interactive art.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interactive_art   (387 words)

  
 Ken Feingold : The Interactive Art Gambit
One, "The Interactive Art Gambit", reveals that I see this approach as a kind of strategy, a move to be made in a game, the game of art.
I was interested in a kind of nervous interaction, one which had more of a response to the type of gesture evidenced by the way a person turned the globe than the actual position of the globe itself.
Duchamp's idea of the art coefficient says that every work of art can be evaluated, in part, as ratio between that which is intended by the artist and not expressed in the work, and that which is unintentionally expressed by the work.
www.kenfeingold.com /feingold-moma4.97.html   (5851 words)

  
 Interactive Art Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Interactive art can also be a static work that was collaboratively created -- the result of an interactive process.
The Interactive Art Conference is a forum for experimentation and dialogue.
The Interactive Art Conference was founded by Anna Couey & Judy Malloy in 1993 and was an active forum until 1998.
www.well.com /~couey/interactive   (122 words)

  
 Kac: Articles and Essays
Away from the art market, a new international generation of media artists, often working in collaboration, exhibits the same utopian fury and radical innovation that once characterized the modern "avant-garde" groups.
Their most ambitious project to date was the interactive television event Piazza Virtuale (Virtual Square), presented for 100 days as part of the quadrennial international art exhibition Documenta IX, in Kassel, Germany, in 1993.
In the new interactive and participatory context generated by this networked telepresence installation realized over the Internet, communicative encounters took place not through verbal or oral exchange but through the rhythms that resulted from the participants' engagement in a shared mediated experience.
www.ekac.org /InteractiveArtontheNet.html   (3241 words)

  
 Camille Utterback :: interactive video art
The interaction is transparent and fluid as viewers recognize and play with their transformed images.
As participants interact with the piece in real time, the visual accumulation of their motions is output to a monitor or projection screen.
Participants in the installation interact with a live projected version of themselves where a real-time video image of themselves is literally 'composed' out of text characters.
www.camilleutterback.com   (1580 words)

  
 ACM Multimedia 2004 Call for Interactive Art Program
We seek art works that, using multimedia, explore issues of cultural identity, cultural awareness, and the boundaries created or enforced through the use of multimedia technology.
The emphasis for the exhibition is on interactive art works that realize powerful artistic concepts using multimedia content and technologies.
Art exhibition submissions should consist of a one to two page statement that includes artistic motivation, project description, and technical details.
www.mm2004.org /acm_mm04_call4interactiveartprogram.htm   (993 words)

  
 The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Computer Events
Interactive multimedia are seen as allowing users to follow their own associationist paths; to experiment and build on their own cognitive structures; and to link their actions with internal emotional and identity needs.
The experience of the interactive artists is useful to those outside of art because of their analysis of the relationship of culture and media, their sensitivity to the relationship between media and audience, and their attention to the aesthetics of interactivity.
Similarly, in the art and media world an interactive art event designed for users who are assumed to have some background in relevant art or cultural issues would be quite different than one designed for novices.
userwww.sfsu.edu /~swilson/papers/interactive2.html   (5806 words)

  
 The History of the Interface in Interactive Art
The situation of Interactive Art is therefore comparable with Video Art, which had to gain certain independence from the language of television.
Infrared sensors and cameras are used as interface With this concept of reducing the distance Rokeby attempts a tightrope walk: on the one hand the visitor assumes that she or he can control the image or the sound, on the other hand the visitor is manipulated by these effects.
In this installation the interaction is mainly initiated and born by mysterious, almost static images.
www.kenfeingold.com /dinkla_history.html   (4487 words)

  
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 Interactive Art Installations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An interactive platform is placed near the entry to the Ancient Theatre of Dionysus, on Dionysiou Areopagitou St.  The installation is a field of fibre-optic light strands which responds to pedestrian movement.
An interactive sound sculpture by Paul Matisse is placed at Thiseion Square, close to the fence of the Ancient Agora.  Pedestrians ring a deep, harmonious sound by striking a hammer on a cylindrical aluminum bell, suspended by specially designed supporting columns.
An interactive light and fog platform is installed on a street opening at Adrianou and Thiseiou Str.  As pedestrians chase the light, cooling clouds of air are activated by their steps on the stage surface.
www.athens2004.com /en/OlympicLookofAthensInteractiveArtInstallations   (511 words)

  
 Interactive art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other works include computers and sensors to respond to motion, heat or other types of input.
Many pieces of 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.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interactive_art   (387 words)

  
 The History of the Interface in Interactive Art
This may seem complicated, because Interactive Art uses the same technology it comments upon, meaning, there is a certain lack of distance.
In Europe the approach to Interactive Art and also the use of the interface was quite different.
With this concept of reducing the distance Rokeby attempts a tightrope walk: on the one hand the visitor assumes that she or he can control the image or the sound, on the other hand the visitor is manipulated by these effects.
www.maryflanagan.com /courses/2002/web/HistoryofInterface.html   (4456 words)

  
 Grand Text Auto » TV is Good For You, and Interactive Art is Irritating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Times piece is interesting, and identifies several common problems with interactive art, but from its tone, I’m given to assume that its author entered the experience with a less-than-open mind.
Imagine if it had started by saying, “There are some things that annoy me about interactive art — I’ve got a little list of them — and I found examples of all of them at the Cyberarts festival.” Sounds like a kind of negative piece, but a better one.
But that didn’t seem to be the sense of “interactive art” meant here; it’s certainly not something you can line up in the gallery of a curated exhibition.
grandtextauto.gatech.edu /2005/04/27/tv-is-good-for-you-and-interactive-art-is-irritating   (1370 words)

  
 Interactive Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The definition of interactive art is graphics with defined regions or hot spots that a user interacts with.
Interactive art provides a high-level of entertainment value, while allowing you to replace dull, lengthy text and/or table information into visuals that take up less real estate on your screen.
Interactive art is fairly extensively used in Computer-Based Training (CBT), Web-Based Training (WBT), and as doorways or portals in website design, game interfaces, kiosks, and image maps.
www.malanenewman.com /interactive_art.html   (185 words)

  
 wilson-art
The installation enables people to interact with microorganisms and cells derived from their own body in a non-invasive way.
The contradiction of interacting with these alien, unfamiliar life forms (which are nonetheless intimately connected with our bodies) focuses on the boundaries between self and non-self and the cultural interest in bioidentification.
DEMON SEED, SIGGRAPH Art Show, Anaheim, CA Four computer choreographed moving and talking robot arms simulated demons in various world cultures and were periodically controllable by audience via velvet squeeze rods.
userwww.sfsu.edu /~swilson/wilson.art.html   (1293 words)

  
 CHArt 2001 Conference Abstracts: Digital Art History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An interactive art work can only be interpreted through interaction, either as first-person or as bystander.
The question is whether it is possible to extract the art work from the interaction with it, let alone the (im-)possibility of extracting the interaction among the beholders (first-person and bystanders) of the art work from the interaction with it.
This may equip the art historian with tools to take up the challenge that has risen from the interactive art works, as well as contribute to a different view on computer games and electronic visual culture.
www.chart.ac.uk /chart2001-abstracts/hammel.html   (259 words)

  
 : A+Li   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Art + Logic Interactive is a digital marketing firm based in Boulder, Colorado.
Art + Logic Interactive solutions leverage this understanding.
Art + Logic Interactive creates engaging digital experiences by combining smart design with creative technology.
www.alinteractive.com   (182 words)

  
 Art Interactive
It is an opportunity for Collision colluders to experiment and show new ideas and techniques and to discuss their work with and gather feedback from the public.
Art Interactive invites curators to submit exhibition proposals for the 2005-06 season.
Art Interactive is looking for interns in Marketing/PR, Development, Arts Administration and other areas.
www.artinteractive.org   (118 words)

  
 south by southwest festivals + conferences
Interactive / Film Trade Show + Exhibition, happening Sunday, March 12 - Tuesday, March 14 on the top floor of the Austin Convention Center.
This Friday, January 13 is the deadline to register for the 2006 SXSW Interactive Festival at the discount rate of $250 ($50 off the walkup registration price of $300).
This is your chance to interact with other Bay Area geeks, as well as meet organizers of the March event in Austin.
2006.sxsw.com /interactive   (1485 words)

  
 DeCordova Museum: Web Racket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Megan Hurst's art is about the intersection of lives, shared and subjective experiences, and the ways that we and our environments shape each other's memories.
The multimedia aspects of web art; the images; the video and the sound are the muscle and skin that cover the interactive skeleton of the work.
Donna Leishman is a Ph.D candidate at the Glasgow School of Art in interactive storytelling.
www.decordova.org /decordova/exhibit/webracket/Default02.htm   (688 words)

  
 David Rokeby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He has focussed on interactive pieces that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception systems.
He was awarded the first Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts in 1988, the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art (Austria) in 1991 and 1997 (with Paul Garrin), and the first BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award for Interactive Art.
One of his interactive systems, Very Nervous System, is being used to enable a paralyzed woman to speak and write.
www3.sympatico.ca /drokeby/home.html   (329 words)

  
 Seattle Art Museum: Learn Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An innovative virtual exhibition explores various themes in the art of the silk routes across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the fifteenth century.
An interactive exploration of traditional Korean houses, arts, and family activities- especially for grades K-8.
This interactive explores the scientific instruments used by Spanish explorers during the Age of Exploration—the quadrant, astrolabe, octant and chronometer.
www.seattleartmuseum.org /Teach/learnOnline.asp   (458 words)

  
 Interactive Art Workshop in Ancient Myndos
Interactive Art Workshop aims to make an introduction to the new terms of Contemporary Art with reference to “new technologies”.
Tim Hailey’s interactive works have been exhibited in major museums including the New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art.
John Plenge is an instructor on Digital Interactive Design at the Grace C. School, NY.
www.istanbulmuseum.org /workshop/interact.htm   (225 words)

  
 The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Critic's Notebook: Art That Puts You in the Picture, Like It or ...
Let's count the ways at the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival, which opened over the weekend at the Art Interactive gallery, the Stata Center (the new Frank Gehry-designed building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus), the Genzyme building and other places in and around Boston and Cambridge.
At the Art Interactive gallery in Cambridge is Scott Snibbe's "Shadow Play," a four-part installation of video projections linked to camera sensors.
Alas, some cyberworks combine all the annoyances of interactive art (prurience, ritual, ungraciousness and moral superiority) to produce a mega-annoyance: total frustration.
www.nytimes.com /2005/04/27/arts/design/27cybe.html?ex=1272254400&en=70297384bc2ad9f0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (912 words)

  
 gallery of interactive digital art
The paintings and the display of the paintings are part of the artist's effort to bring art to the places and to the people who inspire the work itself.
In collaboration with the labyrinth that Kirkos created on New Year's Day, 2006, the rocks were placed at the center of the labyrinth so that at the completion of their journey through the labyrinth each person may collect one rock that best expressed their wish for the New Year.
His metapatterns in the tidal sand art, for which Kirkos is best known, is dramatically executed at Beacons, Swamis, and Stone Step beaches in Encinitas.
www.radi8.org   (2210 words)

  
 Art Interactive
Making art is about creating something that represents an idea or vision that is all your own.
This art interactive will show you a few different types of sculpture in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and encourage you to explore your own artistic expression by making a piece of art online.
In this interactive, you will be able to make your own artwork and see how it would look in the museum.
hirshhorn.si.edu /education/interactive.html   (108 words)

  
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