ParticipArt: Exploring participation in interactive art installations
Giulio Jacucci, Mira Wagner, Ina Wagner, Elisa Giaccardi, Mauro Annunziato, Nell Breyer, Jonas Bjørkå Hansen, Kazuhiro Jo, Stijn Ossevoort, Alessandro Paoletti Perini, Natacha Roussel, Susanne Schuricht · 2010
ParticipART is an initiative aimed at exploring participation in interactive works using ubiquitous computing and mixed reality. It supports and analyses work of artists and creative practitioners incorporating or reflecting on participatory processes to support new roles and forms of engagement for art participants. We aim at proposing a space for discussion that can enliven and enrich the dialogue between human-computer interaction and the creative practices. We present several works that have been exhibited and experienced. The works are used to reflect on the different participative strategies and the role of interaction technologies: enabling authorship, affording connectivity, interacting with artificial beings, reinterpreting the visitor world, and engaging in performative acts.