Jour 1, Session 4

One focus of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. was the research and documentation of interactive artworks. Interactive art denotes a broad and controversial spectrum of artistic concepts that have to be approached from a variety of perspectives, to do justice to the importance of different possible manifestations and experiences of the interaction process. The goal was to develop a differentiated vocabulary for the description, comparison and analysis of interactive artworks as well as to pursue exemplary case studies of individual works. This presentation will discuss several approaches to the documentation and analysis of interactive art, including a survey of the Ars Electronica holdings and case studies of Tmemas 'Manual Input Station' and Blast Theory's 'Rider Spoke'.