Special Topics in Interactive Media Arts Class Deux notes

- Interactivity: can be interact with anything. Can be with words but has to interact with it, two people interacting with each other etc.

- Interactive art:

• Is a form of art that interacts with the spectators 
• Some people can ask the artist to interact with the art
• Electronic art can be highly interactive

- Interactivity in art:

• The viewer interacts with the art piece, they are the inputs and the interactions of the art is the output.
• Interactivity in art is when the audience & the machine that works together.
• Instead of having the artwork that tells to the person, it will give different type of art when interacts with it.
• Some people may say interactive art does not exist unless the audience is there to interact with it.

- Marcel Duchamp: redefine the meaning of art. Before artist paint/draws their expression of the world while Duchamp used everyday household items to put it together to make it into an art piece. Such as his famous bicycle wheel.


- Happening: A definition of happening is "artistic event of a theatrical nature, but usually improvised spontaneously without the framework of a plot." (Happening, proteus.fau.edu) The happening is a creation of a brand new environment within an alrady preexisting environment.

- Allan Kaprow: Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblage and a pioneer who organized the concepts of performance art. He helped created the environment and the happening in the late 1950s to early 70s. He created about 200 happenings and has evolved over the years.

- Cybernetics: Cybernetics is when science is use to control and communicate animals, human and machines.

Defining Interactive Media

Interactive Media Arts is when someone uses an electronic device such as a computer, cell phone, tablet etc. to interact with an object, whether if it is for art, animation, video, audio, games or anything that one's imagination may come up with. For instance, the user may interact with an object that can produce different sounds to create music or produce different types of lights to create light art. 

Since we live in a modern time where technology is more advance than a few decade ago, companies can promote their products by having people to interact with it. Companies such as Coca Cola uses their vending machine for people to interact with it so people can make new friends by getting more Coca Cola than they expected, free Coca Cola if one does a dance or even bring peace to two countries.