CAS@talk: the question concerning interactive art

Computer Arts Society Lecture: The Question Concerning Interactive Art
Interactivity beyond Technology – Art beyond Institutions.

This CAS lecture will discuss the radical change that technology brought to art practice. It will focus on interaction and on the paradigm shift that brought to aesthetics  moving  the focal point  of production from an object oriented creation to an interconnectivity of interactive artwork and participant. It will be suggested that this new paradigm places aesthetics into a hybrid realm of disciplines where understanding human experience became the key element of artistic production. In order to gain insight into this, co-existing models of artwork-spectator and human-computer will be presented  and compared to  the proposed aesthetic model of  interactive artwork-participant.  As such, artists apply philosophical and scientific concepts in order to facilitate new experiences which might provide not only artistic and technological interventions but also can serve as testbed  of applied philosophy and sciences. Furthermore it will be suggested that emerging interactive art works with the proposed aesthetic modality struggle to fit into existing format of display and distribution offered by institutions. The migration to new platforms has been already characterised; the question that remains whether traditional institution are prepared to rethink their way of distribution or novel methods will  take over the display of progressive art.

Wednesday 6th April 2011
6:30pm start at Birkbeck College, University of London
Room 317 at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
http://www.computer-arts-society.org/programme/