Approaches to interactive art systems

Abstract

Artists work with computers and visual interaction in order to create artworks in complex and varied ways. Collaboration between technologists and artists frequently creates new forms of interaction and visualization: it also promotes thinking about new ways of programming such systems. This paper discusses the role of interaction in art systems and some of the new ways in which they are being built. Categories of interactive art systems defined as static, dynamic-passive, dynamic-interactive and dynamic-interactive (varying) are extended and illustrated by examples of work from the first author.