Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen

This article made me think about how we often present our projects in class. What if, instead telling others the purpose and how they are supposed to interact with the project, we simply let them interact, and then expand on their experience after? I resonated with the author’s claim how making interactive work can be difficult because we are taught that a work of art is a work of expression, it’s a statement. To “set up the stage” and let it be, or to suggest intentions without giving the interpretations, appears liberating, scary and un-doable all at the same time. I haven’t really made the shift of considering interactive media to be like a performance where the audience completes the work. This article made me more aware of how I perceive interactive media as an art form, and how I should perhaps begin to perceive it another way.

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