Art: Interaction vs Participation

Art: Interaction and Participation Since 1998, I am a participant of Burning People. Last year I went to SIGgraph - it was my first time to join the burning man - artwork gave me complete inspiration. Despite both offering similar artworks, we can not create deep desires for works like art like Burning Man. Do not get me wrong. The art of SIGgraph is very good, but it does not change me like art that burn people. I am trying to define this difference.

I want to create art through exchanges with the public, so I would like to concentrate on participatory public art. When participants dialogue, art is triggered and visual or audio effects are born. At the end of the ITP camp this July, I showed off my project "Body Contact". This is a circuit that generates different tones based on resistance. I really like how much excitement and surprises people bring when they communicate with each other. Some hugs and kisses, once there were ten people hand in hand to complete the circuit. I would like to further develop this project by further adding visual effects and changing the display of this device to make it easier to see.

Interactive art involves participant's art in some way, and the purpose of art is realized by participation by someone. According to the article by Söke Dinkla 's 1994 "History of Interactive Art Interfaces", since 1920' s, interactive artworks such as Thomas Heatherwick 's adult playground in London' s South Square have appeared. (They sound like a rotating chair)

When the exhibition fits the labels of games and interactive art, the border between video games and art blurs. The Smithsonian American Museum of Art organized an exhibition called "video game art" in 2012 and introduced the artistic nature of video games such as the influence of old works and the influence on the creative culture of video games . Smithsonian later added this series of games, flowers and Halo 2600 as permanent exhibits of the museum. Likewise, the aim of the New York Museum of Modern Art in New York is to collect 40 important historical video games in their original format, and as part of a wide range of efforts to celebrate the game as an art media, interactive design of video games . Every year's "Into Image" art exhibition held during the Electronic Entertainment Expo highlights video game art selected by the team of video games and art experts.