Interactive Media Artworks for Public Space

공공 공간을 위한 인터랙티브 미디어 아트작품

The potential of art to influence consciousness & behav-iour in relation to public spaces

공공 공간과 관련된 의식과 행위에 영향을 미치는 예술의 가능성

author : Liliana Bounegru, speaker : Dong Seop Kim

author Liliana Bounegru

url lilianabounegru.org

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profile European Journalism Centre 의 프로젝트 코디네이터 ,University of Amsterdam 연구석사

Interest blogging, networks, search engines, Google, locative media, protocol, augmented reality, and media art from a media theory perspec-tive, as well as classical media theory

contents

Introduction

Art Installations using the Body as Interface

Media Artworks which Mark up the Public Space with Text

Reappropriating Urban Space through Participatory Media Art ?

Artistic Precedents and Critique of the Modern Urban Space

Situatinism Rediscovered or Situationism Subverted?

1. Introduction

Two types of artistic strategies

The Body as Interface Textual information

Augmented Reality technology Social Media

Aim

to analyses these two types of artistic strategies with the purpose of assessing their potential to influence human consciousness and behaviour in public space,

the Situationist legacy.

Situationist InternationalGuy Debord, <The Society of the Spectacle>

http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_spectacle.html

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/spectacle.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SvdWk8zRrI

Spectacle

주요 개념

전유 , 전용 Détournement

건설된 상황 constructed situation

심리지리학 Psychogeography

일원적 도시주의 unitary urbanism

표류 Dérive

2. Art Installations Using the Body as Interface

Virtual Reality Augmented Reality

Obsolete Body Body Involvement

Merleau-Ponty

primary access to the world

the vehicle of being in the world

The Body

Myron Krueger

concept : Responsive Environments’http://cva.ap.buffalo.edu/courses/f07/dms543/files/f07/dms543/readings/Krueger.pdf

work : Videoplacehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo

mirroring

inputted actions

transformation

interactive

Communication with the self

shaping the meanings

David Rokeby

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer,Body Movies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENyOj26hmH0

Lozano-Hemmer’s relational architecture

physical location

the body as an interface with technology

possibilities forcollective interaction &individual performance

the body

disembod-iment

the body of other

(re)embodiment

Lozano-Hemmer’s relational architecture

Technological Mediation

exploring relations with other people

a different state of consciousness and self-awareness

recuperation from depersonal-ization through thedeepest form of human commu-nion

collective gene-sis

Rafael Lozano-HemmerPulse Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUYIxXie4c

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer,Under Scan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxLcxQAvOY

3. Media Artworks which Mark up the Public Space with Text

Public Space

mobile bubble

mobile bubble

mobile bubble

mobile bubble

Georg Simmel

Hello World

breaking the ‘mobile bubble’

Jason LewisCitySpeak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJu1hLpS_64

stefhan caddick storyboard

Johannes GeesHelloWorld

http://www.youtube.com/user/snowmaster60#p/u/7/2DUZ-NTKgB4

creatingparticipatoryspectacle

collective re-appro-priation

4. Reappropriating Urban Space through Participatory Media Art?

supplementing a culture of ‘specta-cle’ and entertainmentwith more participatory models of generating spectacular ‘representa-tions’.

dismissing the ‘specta-cle’ of commodities and their reification of socialrelationships

Situationist(Guy Debord)

criticizing the society of the spectacle

Participatory Media Art

5. Artistic Precedents and Critique of the Modern Urban  Space

creating zones of expanded con-

sciousness and an awareness

of the relational po-tential of public en-

vironments

alienation,routinisation, nonin-

tervention,passivity

public space

the spectacle :commercial culture, advertising,and entertainment

spontaneous,imaginative and playful practices.

The structure of media dominated consumer society

passive subject(spectatorship)

The Body as Inter-face

Textual information

Technology Augmented Reality Social Media

Interactive Method

Body involvement Text Messaging

Way of en-gagement

Direct Indirect

Focus Relation Communication

Tech Multi-sensory Milieu Internet

6. Situationism  Rediscovered or Situationism Subverted?

Comparison of two strategies

Situationist(1952-1972)

Collective Genesis(1990’S & 2000’S)

AIM Reinvigorate public space through artworks

ATTITUDE TO THE SPECTA-CLE

Destroying the spectacle,Art as being separated form everyday life,Incapable of producing social change

Utilizing the spectacle,

TACTICS Détournement, constructed situations, psychogeography, Dérive ->collective production

Collective Engagement, Collective Indi-vidualization,Collective appropriation, Collective genesis->collective production

METHODS & TOOLS

Temporary political art to shift to form of a revolution (Books, paintings)

Aesthetic art, less politicalInteractive media art installations,Relational Aesthetics(digital media , large digital displays, surveillance tech, mobile tech & the In-ternet)

BACK-GROUND

Marxism, Communism Democracy

the interactive media art installations reappropriating parts of the Situationist theory