DmDefineInteraction
Everything is Interactive
via DavidRokeby:
- Marcel Duchamp: "The spectator makes the picture."
- Itsuo Sakane, the Japanese journalist and curator, suggests that interactive art is simply art that involves the participation of the viewer. But he goes on to remark "all arts can be called interactive in a deep sense if we consider viewing and interpreting a work of art as a kind of participation...
Interaction Is Two Way
"One might take the extreme position that a significant interaction between an artwork and a spectator cannot be said to have taken place unless both the spectator and the artwork are in some way permanently changed or enriched by the exchange."
-David Rokeby
"As Josh Ulm put it, interaction is a conversation. And if you have a really powerful conversation, both of you are going to come out of that conversation changed. And if you enter a similar conversation with another, or even with each other, that conversation will be different because of how you were changed by that interaction. True interaction takes much longer than reaction. It is an evolutionary process. It is a social process"
-"true interaction is two-way"
-DmMcLuhanAndRokeby, essay for Teri Rueb's DmSeminarTutorial