Friday, November 5, 2010

The Construction of Change (1964)

- Roy Ascott

- connection between art, art education and cybernetics

- founding document of new media


Poppers distinctions between "participation" and "interaction":

- Participation: involvement on intellectual and behavioral level. varies from idea of "spectator." has apolitical and social implications. similar to "ritual ceremony" or "tribal feast"

- Interaction: mirrors type of participation, in which art (AI system) interacts with user/spectator itself. Usually two-way, as opposed to participation, which implies global network i.e. internet, where multiple users are all interacting.

- 1980s, Ascott combines Popper's two concepts: Telematic Art, where global individuals work together on single art via network, plus interaction on the part of AI.

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