Ars Foyer Program

Books & Talks

Two book presentations on interactive art and interface design

04.09. | 16:00 - 17:00

Brucknerhaus

Christa Sommerer, Dorothée King, Laurent Mignonneau

BOOK 1:

The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design, edited by Christa Sommerer, Lakhmi C. Jain, Laurent Mignonneau, Springer Verlag 2008
Artists and creators in interactive art and interaction design have long been conducting research on human-machine interaction. Through artistic, conceptual, social and critical projects, they have shown how interactive digital processes are essential elements for their artistic creations. Resulting prototypes have often reached beyond the art arena into areas such as mobile computing, intelligent ambiences, intelligent architecture, fashionable technologies, ubiquitous computing and pervasive gaming. Many of the early artist-developed interactive technologies have influenced new design practices, products and services of today's media society. This book brings together key theoreticians and practitioners of this field. It shows how historically relevant the issues of interaction and interface design are, as they can be analyzed not only from an engineering point of view but from a social, artistic and conceptual, and even commercial angle as well.
Contents: Foreword Peter Weibel.- Introduction to the Art and Science of Interaction and Interface Design (Vol. 1) Christa Sommerer, Lakhmi C. Jain, Laurent Mignonneau.- Interactivity – A Word in Process Katja Kwastek.- Strategies of Interactivity Dieter Daniels.- Interfaces in Public and Semi-public Space Joachim Sauter.- Interactivity as Media Reflection between Art and Science Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss.- Media Facades as Architectural Interfaces Laurent Mignonneau, Christa Sommerer.- Interaction Design for Ubiquitous Content.- Masa Inakage, Satoru Tokuhisa, Eri Watanabe, Yu Uchida.- Ubiquitous Gaming Interaction: Engaging Play Anywhere Tiago Martins, Nuno Correia, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau.- Fashionable Technology – The Next Generation of Wearables Sabine Seymour, Laura Beloff.- The Hybrid City: Augmented Reality for Interactive Artworks on the Public Space Clara Boj, Diego Díaz.- Digital Art/Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons Christiane Paul .



BOOK 2:
Interface Cultures. Artistic Aspects of Interaction, edited by Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée King, Transcript Verlag, 2008
From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design – the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them. This book's aim is to give an overview of the current state of interactive art and interface technology as well as an outlook on new forms of hybridization in art, media, scientific research and every-day media applications.

Christa Sommerer (Prof. Dr.) and Laurent Mignonneau (Prof. Dr.) are professors and heads of the master and doctoral study course "Interface Cultures" at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. They rank among the most influential media artists creating pioneering interactive art works. Dorothée King (M.A.) teaches and works on her doctorate at the Interface Cultures study program. Her main research field is "emotionality" in interactive arts.

CONTENT
Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects of Interface Design CHRISTA SOMMERER, LAURENT MIGNONNEAU

INFORMATION DESIGN AND SOCIAL MEDIA with articles by CHRIS STARY, DIETMAR OFFENHUBER, JUDITH DONATH (MIT MEDIA LAB), JÜRGEN SCHEIBLE, STEFANO M. VANNOTTI, GEORG WEICHHART, GEORG RUSSEGGER

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED INTERFACES with articles by PAUL THOMAS, INGRID GRAZ, TOMOR ELEZKURTAJ, MIKA SATOMI, SABINE SEYMOUR, MISCHA SCHAUB

CULTURAL ASPECTS AND AESTHETICS OF INTERACTIVITY with articles by ERKKI HUHTAMO, CHRISTIANE PAUL, KATJA KWASTEK, PENESTA DIKA, DOROTHÉE KING, MAHIR M. YAVUZ, GIACO SCHIESSER, HIROSHI YOSHIOKA

STAGE-BASED AND AUDIOVISUAL INTERACTION with articles by SCOTT DELAHUNTA, MARTIN KUSCH, ANDREAS WEIXLER, SE-LIEN CHUANG, KLAUS OBERMAIER, WOLFGANG KOPPER, OLIVER WITTCHOW

INTERACTIVE ART PRACTICE with articles by GEBHARD SENGMÜLLER, ULF LANGHEINRICH, STATION ROSE (ELISA ROSE, GARY DANNER), URSULA ENDLICHER, KEIKO TAKAHASHI, KIM CASCONE, PAULO PEREIRA, HERWIG TURK, SYLVIA ECKERMANN