Is Interacting to make? A description of a digital and interactive art exhibition

Abstract

The advent of digital technology and networked communication has brought new possibilities in the art making. It is common to spot professionals in the field of arts and communication announcing disruptions brought by the advent of digital art as the end of a work of finished and contemplative art, the dichotomy between author and public, nature and culture, man and machine. However, through fieldwork and contact with interactors linked to projects of interactive art, I question the hegemony of these considerations in relation to the positioning of the viewer on the digital, as it is related to a consolidated cyberculture and the traditional notion of art. Concepts such as interface, interactivity and virtuality are entering the field of arts. I here propose questioning the acting of artworks and artistic places within this conceptualization and transformation cited before. In order to do so, I have chosen the construction and dissemination sites of interactive netart for a field. Nevertheless, within the online environment it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to have an idea of the dimension that the interaction and the platform itself provide the viewer . Thus, I have observed an exhibition named “Emoção Art.ficial”, in São Paulo, where I could collect material for carrying out my work.