13.03.2009, at 6 p.m.

 

STRATEGIES OF INTERACTIVE ART (FROM THE INSTRUMENT TO THE INTERACTIVE SPECTACLE)

 

Interactive art in spite of its not very long history has developed a rich variety of strategies. I prefer to talk about strategies here not about forms or structures since a processual, performative character of interactive art leads towards a concept of art as event rather, not artifact. All those strategies create the principle structures of interactive artistic experience, as well as play the roles of basic tools for participatory culture nowadays. In my talk I want to analyze the characteristic attributes of interactive art and to present and examine seven general strategies, which I consider the most characteristic and most important for the history and presence of interactive artistic practices: strategy of instrument, game, archive, labyrinth, rhizome, network and spectacle. The analysis of these strategies will lead also towards the reflection on the transformations occurring within the new media art and on new media based, audiovisual culture.