About
"Much consideration has been given to the idea (in, for example, reader-response criticism) that the gaze of the viewer is the force by which artworks become constituted. Yet most interactive artworks to date have lacked fundamental information about where their participantsâ visual attention is actually directed. Likewise, many of our richest models for interactivity are grounded in notions of mammalian facial behaviorâto understand an animal, we look into its eyesâyet the powerful expressive affordances of eyes, as a form of dynamic display, are almost never granted to interactive artworks. What if artworks could know how we were looking at them? And, given this knowledge, how might they respond if they could look back at us?
This talk will present a survey of Golan Levinâs personal research into the âmedium of response,â with consideration given to the conditions that enable people to experience sustained creative feedback with reactive systems; to the potential for audiovisual abstraction to connect viewers to realities beyond language; and more generally, to information visualization as a mode of art practice. The talk concludes with a presentation of Levinâs most recent attempts to create engrossing and uncanny interactions structured by gaze: by endowing responsive artworks with new perceptive capacitiesâthe ability to know where we are lookingâand new expressive means, through simulated eyes that can return and meet our own."
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- University of California, Berkeley
- Department
- Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Subjects
- Art, architecture and design
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Licence
- Internet Archive states no licence for it. Internet Archive's terms
- Who can watch
- Internet Archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed