Mon 23 August 2010
13:00–14:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, G 133a

Moderated by Lucas Evers (nl)

1. 13:00h | Jiun Jhy Her, Jim Hamlyn (gb): Challenging Interactivity in Public Space
2. 13:25h | Lanfranco Aceti (tr): Transcultural Electronic Negotiations. The Redefinition of Public Art Across Cultures and Media
3. 13:50h | Söke Dinkla (de): The Aesthetics of Electronic Art in Public Spaces

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P10 Hybrid Public Spaces (PDF, 91.94 KB)

Jiun Jhy Her, Jim Hamlyn (gb)

Challenging Interactivity in Public Space

Digital interactive art often demands physical involvement in order to fully realise the artwork. Such an approach engages the audience and provokes greater sensory awareness. The question of whether audiences are able to obtain meaningful experiences through interaction with art installations is significant and has initiated this research. The research will articulate the concept of meaningful experiences, through analysis of interviews with the observers and art practitioners and by examining three public artworks. A research framework Engaging Characteristics has been established.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Challenging Interactivity in Public Space (PDF)

Jiun-Jhy Her is a graphic designer, artist and a Ph.D. candidate. Since 2007, he has been studying at Gray's School of Art. His doctoral study has been focusing on the interactivity between the audience and digital interactive arts in public space.

Jim Hamlyn is an artist and lecturer and has exhibited in such countries as Japan, Spain, Thailand and the USA. His work incorporates a range of approaches from public sculpture to interactive media and the moving image.

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Lanfranco Aceti (tr)

Transcultural Electronic Negotiations. The Redefinition of Public Art Across Cultures and Media

What are the electronic spaces for contemporary artistic engagements? Starting from an exhibition project titled Peddling Art that has taken place in Istanbul, the paper will analyze the relationship between culture and technology – or the absence of both – in the redefinition (as a remediation and transmediation process) of the artwork and its contexts.

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Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, London; teaches Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at Sabanci University, Istanbul; and is Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (the MIT Press, Leonardo journal and ISAST). He is also the Artistic Director and Conference Chair for ISEA2011 Istanbul.

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Söke Dinkla (de)

The Aesthetics of Electronic Art in Public Spaces

Public space has always been a field of experimentation and research for changing patterns of perception and behaviour. The question today is what (public) effect art can achieve in this situation. What kind of public emerges in an age when our understanding of what is public has been fundamentally changed by the influence of digital media? This presentation describes how artists keep resisting any one-sided appropriation of the public, thus keeping it alive. It analyses and demonstrates various artistic strategies and tactics of the Agon (Chantal Mouffe), the contest for democracy.

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Söke Dinkla studied Art History, Literature, Anthropology; 1994 grant of the DAAD for the USA; 1996 Ph.D. on the history and aesthetics of interactive media art. Curator at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg. Since 2005 she is Artistic Director of the European Capital of Culture Office RUHR.2010 Duisburg.

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