Read, discuss, create, experiment, enact. A series of meetings and field trips focused on art of the interative & participative variety.

Is “interactive art” making noodles for visitors to art galleries? Creating a video projection that responds to a participant’s movements? Uploading a video response on YouTube? Playing World of Warcraft? Programming an autonomous computer program that responds in real-time? What about Events, Happenings, Interventions?

Who or what is involved in this interaction – human-to-human, human-to-index, human-to-database, or computer-to-computer?

How can interactivity be framed and experienced as something other than spectacle or entertainment (or should it be)? What effect does today’s experience economy of carefully crafted consumer experiences like The Grove and Universal CityWalk have on artists and audiences?

What about issues of authorship? Is asking a non-artist to participate in order to create an artwork exploitative, aggressive, coercive, or transformative?

In this workshop we will explore these ideas and and perhaps even create projects that explore the nature of interactivity in variety of contexts.