Saturday, September 12, 2015
Shanken pg 30-45
On page 30, Shanken discusses the early interactive artists that created works that involved people as the software. This kind of interaction is seen in the piece by Les Levine called Contact: A Cybernetic Sculpture where people that walked by were turned in to software information that would be projected via video. I think this way of making art is very interesting because people unknowingly are involved in the art making process and as an artists, you may never really know what your going to get until you see the work. On page 31 Shanken discusses Kelly Heaton's piece called Reflection Loop, and that fact that it's a bunch of little Furby dolls that react to a person nearby is impressive, I had no idea something like this could be done with Furby technology. These kinds of participatory art pieces are interesting because instead of the art piece being a standalone piece, it now becomes this piece that involves people's interactions..
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Good analysis, Richard. Don't you think that all "art" is interactive and participatory though? A painting requires a viewer, right? If not, tell me why?
ReplyDeleteI guess in a way all "art" is participatory, but there are some art pieces that need the interaction and participation, as seen with the piece "Contact", because without people being there, the art piece wouldn't even work. In a painting, whether someone is there or not, it's still works without someone actually being a part of it. As for a painting requiring a viewer, that one is tricky, is something considered art the moment it has a viewer, or is it art when the artists completes a piece?
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