ART 3610 INTERACTIVE ART
This is a hands-on course where students learn how to create interactive art works and environments by considering the expressive potential of motion, change, touch, and time. We will focus on art related principles while creating cybernetic and physical systems for real-time interaction. Course time will be spent learning software and physical computing techniques with the goal of creating interactive art projects. Through readings and discussions, we will cover topics ranging from interactive art/music, design, space, bio-art, net.art, land art, and installation. Offered Fall or Spring.
Course Types
Expression; Advanced Studies
Notes
Materials fee: $150
Course Outcomes
- To illustrate an understanding of interactive art and interactive theory
- To become versed in some of the tools and techniques available for the creation of interactive artworks, such as real-time render development environments; real-time digital signal processing; data capture and immersive environment construction
- To learn the history and contemporary implications of Interactive Art
- To evaluate experiential differences in various types of interactive works
- To distinguish the difference between reactive, interactive, and dynamically changing systems