Understanding Engagement in Interactive Art Installations
Speaker: Ann Morrison, ITEE
When: 2007-09-12 13:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Ralf Muhlberger
Abstract:In this thesis I will examine how tangible interactive technology
[art] works engage their participants. By doing this, I intend to
identify the aspects these works have in common that heighten their
potential for participant engagement. I also intend to fill a gap in
the extant literature on engagement in interactive art
works. Although engagement in these works has received some critical
attention from the disciplines of Human Computer
Interaction/Interaction Design (HCI/ID) and art criticism, that
research has limitations. From the HCI/ID perspective, although
there is much written on gaming and screen-based optimally engaging
works, there is very little understanding of how to successfully
translate those works or that level of engagement into the physical
domain. A small number of interactive artwork evaluations discuss
interactivity principles from an ID perspective (see Hook, Sengers
and Andersson (2003), Hornecker and Bruns (2004)), but little has
been written on the engaging nature of interactive art
works. Lacking in this critical literature is an attention to both
the technical and artistic concerns of the makers, as well as an
understanding of the relationship between the artist and the
participant that these works enable-the need for the participant to
be able to participate, and for the artist to also be able to design
their very particular experience. Great early work has been done in
identifying issues and critiquing installation art works, (see
Krauss (1977), Bishop (2005) and Coulter-Smith (2006)) but there is
remaining further work to be done on in-depth art-critical writing
on installation art in general and on interactive art installation
in particular. Moreover, there is little published art-critical
research that specifically discusses engagement and why some
installations engage and others do not. This research will combine
perspectives from Interaction Design, Philosophy and Art disciplines
in order to conduct innovative inter-disciplinary research on
engagement in interactive art installation.
Biography:(biography unavailable)
Type: Ph.D confirmation
Contact:Ralf Muhlberger, seminar host (ralf@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)