scholarly journals Conceptualizing the Aurora: An Exploration of Performative Understanding through Interactive Art

Nordlit ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Signe Kjaer Jensen ◽  
Cristina Pop-Tiron
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Interactive Art ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
The Real ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Video Documentation

Aurora – Connecting Senses is a multimodal, interactive art installation which explores the ideas of the Northern Lights through sound, light, colour, and interaction. The installation creates a space where the colours, magic, and mystique of the aurora are brought down to earth and into people’s everyday lives. It is inspired by popular and scientific representations of the real aurora and invites audiences to create yet another interpretation of the natural wonder. In doing so, audiences are also invited to reflect upon the nature of the aurora and on the act of interpretation and exploration. In this article, we provide a thorough description of the ideas and development of the installation, along with photo and video documentation, and offer a critical discussion of the installation as a performative art piece with certain affordances for interaction, performativity, and active reflection. Our discussion is grounded in our observations of audiences engaging with the installation, aspiring to relate the theoretically available affordances for interaction with the differences in observed audience behaviour. The theme and reflective potential of the installation is further compared to other contemporary art pieces dealing with conceptualizations of nature or natural phenomena. By doing this, we aim to use the aurora installation as a stepping stone for addressing the potential of interactive art to highlight or even construct certain understandings of a natural ‘reality’ and for engaging audiences in a further negotiation of these understandings.

Art installation from glass and steel with elements of museum collection for exposition of State literary museum of Yanka Kupala

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Павел Владимирович Войницкий ◽  
Елена Михайловна Златкович
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Time Line ◽  
The Real ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Moral Leader ◽  
Exposition Time ◽  
Main Material

Статья посвящена инсталляции «Путь поэта», выполненной авторами для Государственного литературного музея Янки Купалы (Минск, Беларусь) в 2014 году. Это произведение современного искусства, репрезентирующее последние минуты жизни Народного поэта БССР Янки Купалы. В то же время оно представляет собой фрагмент музейной экспозиции, посвященный трагическому окончанию жизненного пути поэта, и включает в себя реальные экспонаты из музейной коллекции, имеющие отношение к смерти Купалы. Остальные составляющие инсталляции – сталь, стекло, звук и направленный электрический свет. Инсталляция должна была стать не только драматическим контрапунктом экспозиционного тайм-лайна, но также и послужить прозаичным оборудованием для демонстрации музейных предметов. В результате длительной работы над эскизами выкристаллизовалась вертикальная композиция объекта, напоминающего лестницу и составленного из стеклянных листов-ступеней, которая и была, в итоге, воплощена. В статье раскрывается концепция произведения, его привязка к конкретным историческим событиям, а также особенности образно-художественного решения. Особое внимание уделено специфике использования стекла в качестве основного материала инсталляции. The paper is devoted to the art installation «Way of Poet» created by the authors for the State Literary Museum of Yanka Kupala (Minsk, Belarus) in 2014. It is a work of contemporary art that represents the very last moments of life of People's poet of the Byelorussian SSR Yanka Kupala. At the same time, it is a fragment of the Museum exposition dedicated to the tragic end of the Poet's life, and includes the real exhibits related to the death of Kupala from the Museum collection. Other components of the installation are steel, glass, sound and spotted electric light. Yanka Kupala (1882 – 1942) was the classic writer of Belarusian and world literature, one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature and literary Belarusian language, the spiritual and moral leader of national rebirth in Belarus. On 28 June 1942 he tragically died in unexplained circumstances, having fallen into the staircase opening at the 10th floor of the hotel «Moscow» in Moscow. The installation is not only a dramatic counterpoint of the exposition time-line, but it also serves as prosaic equipment for demonstrating the Museum’s items. As a result of long work on the sketches, the vertical composition of the object was invented and embodied. It resembles a stairway that composed of glass sheets-steps. The paper reveals the concept of the work, its connection to specific historical events, as well as its original artistic features. Particular attention is paid to the specific use of glass as the main material of the installation.

The VideoMob Interactive Art Installation Connecting Strangers through Inclusive Digital Crowds

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Grenader ◽  
Danilo Gasques Rodrigues ◽  
Fernando Nos ◽  
Nadir Weibel
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Art ◽  
Art Installation

scholarly journals The imaginary worlds of sustainability: observations from an interactive art installation

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Bendor ◽  
David Maggs ◽  
Rachel Peake ◽  
John Robinson ◽  
Steve Williams
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Art ◽  
Art Installation

scholarly journals Towards Family Economic Sustainability: The Transformation of Traditional Sulphur Miners in Ijen Crater

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1270-1276
Author(s):  
Alfiana Yuli Efiyanti, Aliya Fatimah
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Real Image ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Real ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Permanent Employees

Sulphur miners in Ijen crater, Banyuwangi, Indonesia has been undergoing life changing experience for many years.  It happened due to the natural phenomena of the area.  Mount Ijen has a potential natural tourism that might attract domestic and international tourists.  In addition, the area has high sulphur contents. The management of sulphur is fully authorized by CN Company. The traditional miners deposit the mining results to the company. Working in sulphur mining is very risky, especially for the carriers who are paid based on the quantity of sulphur they bring up from the crater.  This study explores in deep the profile of the traditional sulphur miners in Ijen crater, Banyuwangi. It employs a qualitative approach to obtain the real image of their profile. The research results are (1) three types of traditional sulphur miners in Ijen crater are found. Two of them are permanent employees of the company while the remaining type of the miners is independent worker, whose activities are searching and carrying the sulphur.  The Ijen crater miners  had an uncertain income, depending on the amount of sulphur successfully transported. (2) The minimum income of the traditional miners leads them to transform the job into businesses. (3) The transformation lets them contribute more to their family life.

scholarly journals FeelOpo

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Isabel Carvalho ◽  
José Bidarra ◽  
Carla Porto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Interactive Art ◽  
Interactive Installation ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
The North ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Different Levels

FeelOpo is an interactive art installation that allows contact with fragments of the immaterial heritage of the Oporto City in the North of Portugal. Through location-based storytelling of the living city, this interactive installation allows visitors to explore, at different levels, several typical characteristics of this city, addressing aspects of cultural identity based on contrasting images and videos. The visitors feel and explore visual stories of the live city, through a process of appropriation and articulation of these narratives, generating an expansion of this intangible heritage.

Resisting Surveillance: Identity and Implantable Microchips

Leonardo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Nisbet
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Human Tracking ◽  
Interactive Art ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Single Identity ◽  
Future Project

Surveillance technologies and centralized databases are threatening personal privacy and freedom. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchip technology is one of several potential human tracking and authentication systems. The author's interactive art installation Pop! Goes the Weaselaims to explore opportunities for resisting surveillance by altering underlying assumptions concerning identity. Viewers are encouraged to experiment with resistance by avoiding access control, intervening in the database and subverting notions of a stable or single identity. The author is planning a future project to develop an interface between the author's two implanted microchips and her computer in order to track her computer usage as it relates to her technology-induced shifting sense of self.

Silent Room: A (non)sensory interactive art installation

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 3294-3294
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Zeh ◽  
Fiona Cheung ◽  
Simon Heijdens ◽  
Preston S. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Art ◽  
Art Installation
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