Week 5: Interactivity
Tuesday, February 2nd Overview
Check in on survey results, reading and assignment schedule
Critique of Generativity assignment: 3:30-4:20
We'll go around the group and share each student's generative work and participate in a group critique
Presenter- First share your resulting images (via screen share)
Group- discuss the aesthetic properties of the work- color, composition, form, variety, uniqueness
-What feelings do the pieces evoke for you? Calm? Balanced? Stark? Intense?
-Which pieces feel more successful and why?
-Do the pieces as a whole feel consistent, like they could be members of the same series or tryptic, or do they seem like individual works? Why?
Presenter- Describe your process for creating these pieces including the functionality of the system, how you modified it in the process of working with it, and how you made your selections.
Break: 4:20-4:30
Overview of approaches and philosophy in new-media interactive art: 4:30-5:10
Roy Ascott
Change Painting, 1961
Lynn Hershman
Lorna, 1979-1984
Nam Jun Paik
Random Access, 1963
Myron Krueger
Videoplace, 1972
Camille Utterback
Text Rain, 1999
Scott Snibbe
Boundary Functions, 1998
Bubble Harp, 1998
Daniel Rosin
Wooden Mirror, 1999
Design I/O
Connected Worlds, 2015
Zachary Lieberman and Golan Levin
Manual Input Workstation, 2004
teamLab
The Columns, 2019
Jonah Warren
Sloppy Forgeries, 2018
5:10-5:20 Introduction to reading assignment and prompt
Assignment
Reading- aka Viewing
This week we'll view and discuss a series of interviews with the artist and participants for a work of interactive art.
First, watch the performance / demonstration of Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman's Manual Input Workstation
Then, watch the interview with Golan Levin about the work conducted by Lizzie Muller and Katja Kwastek. Focus on questions 7-16, however you are encouraged to watch all questions if you have time: Golan Levin Interview
Finally, watch at least one of the interviews with participants of the Manual Input Workstation: Participant Interviews
Optional Reading/ Viewing- Pieces by Bret Victor on supporting artwork through digital tools:
Complete a reading reflection in the slide deck by Wednesday, 6pm