Integrated Descriptive Interactivity for Complex Collections (IDI)
Daniel Pinkas, Jean-Louis Boissier, Sidonie Carrillat, Annelore Schneider, Pius Zoll · Proceedings of DRS · 2006
IDI (Integrated Descripttive Interactivity for Complex Collections) is a media design research project currently conducted at the Haute école d’arts appliqués, Geneva (HEAA). IDI explores the descriptive potential of interactive video and seeks to integrate video-interactivity into a comprehensive descriptive and documentary approach to complex collections. An integrated descriptive interactivity aims at providing an intuitive account of the user’s relations to the objects or elements of a complex collection. We must emphasize that our project goes well beyond a simple combination of existing media; it seeks a new documentary modality which allows the user to browse through a collection not only by selecting items satisfying chronological, linguistic or analytical criteria, but also by selecting sensitive or formal properties belonging to the interactive rendering itself. We assume that the experimental protocols developed and tested for a contemporary art collection during the first phase of our research will find suitable applications for many different types of complex collections. This project is co-financed by the CTI/Swiss innovation promotion agency. MAMCO - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva is our partner.