Art, Interaction and Active Audience

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Synopsis:

Art is increasingly interactive. Audiences are less inclined to just
passively observe what the artist has made. They want to be active and
have part of the action. I started work on various kinds of creative
interactive artworks 40 years ago. Compared to those early days we not
only have... [read more]

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Synopsis:

Art is increasingly interactive. Audiences are less inclined to just
passively observe what the artist has made. They want to be active and
have part of the action. I started work on various kinds of creative
interactive artworks 40 years ago. Compared to those early days we not
only have very sophisticated technologies we also have a much greater
understanding of audience experience and how to shape it. I will
describe the trajectory of the work that my students and I have
followed, covering a range of interactive artworks and the
understandings that we have developed about the active audience.

About the speaker:

ERNEST EDMONDS is a pioneering digital artist, an international
expert on human-computer interaction and, specifically, creativity and
the Creative Industries. He first used computers in his art practice in
1968. He is Professor of Computation and Creative Media in the Faculty
of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of
Technology, Sydney. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions, fast
track, section of the MIT Press journal Leonardo and a Co-Editor of the
journal. His art is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum,
who are collecting his archives as part of the National Archive of
Computer-Based Art and design.

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