INTERACTIVE ART

I have touched a little on Interactive Art. In my research for this I found that interactive art can also be found on a computer, allowing its visitors to navigate through a hypertext environment or allowing its viewer to manipulate an art piece to create a different view. Despite the immediate idea of producing an interactive art piece on the computer such as in the way I explained above, I also found that an interactive art piece can be something like an image or an installation. These maybe some pieces that can be touched or smelt as a form of interaction or they may be something that creates such and impact that the viewer is engaged by purely viewing this piece, interacting with it with emotion or thought. For this idea I have researched two artists; Geoff Bunn and Cindy Sherman for their art pieces that I felt a high degree of interaction with. Some of their images are meant to shock, some to confuse and some to provoke thought.

Having researched interactive art in detail I have decided that I may produce a piece or an installment that would require me to interact with the piece as I am making it and then the final being something that an audience can interact with. For this I have decided tht I would much rather create a piece that will impact on a certain audience, that will make people thing and then act and therefore reacting with the cause. For this, I have decided to research Interactive Advertising to see what sort of angle I can take with that.