Interactive installations as performance

Nam, Hye Yeon

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Interactive installations as performance

dc.contributor.advisor	Nitsche, Michael
dc.contributor.author	Nam, Hye Yeon
dc.contributor.committeeMember	DiSalvo, Carl
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Bolter, Jay
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Auslander, Phil
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Do, Ellen Yi-Luen
dc.contributor.department	Literature, Media, and Communication
dc.date.accessioned	2014-08-27T13:37:31Z
dc.date.available	2014-08-27T13:37:31Z
dc.date.created	2014-08
dc.date.issued	2014-05-16
dc.date.submitted	August 2014
dc.date.updated	2014-08-27T13:37:31Z
dc.description.abstract	This thesis clarifies the interdisciplinary field of interactive installations in digital media and digital art. As an interdisciplinary field, interactive installations emphasize three dimension; bodily interaction beyond restricted mouse clicking; physical interfaces using digital technologies that can reconfigure a space; particular forms of participants' engagement. To investigate these interactive installation artifacts in greater detail, this thesis adapts a theoretical perspective from performance studies using epistemic, critical, and constitutive qualities to investigate interactive installations as performance. First, epistemic qualities explore how embodied interactions prompt participants' engagement. Second, critical qualities encourage participants to ask questions and explore issues. Lastly, constitutive qualities address how participants actuate new configurations by interacting with installations. This thesis applies the epistemic, critical, and constitutive aspects and its theoretical discourse to interactive installations. With two works, Please Smile (2012) and Hooray (2013), it probes these effects in an additional user study of both works. Using the quantitative and qualitative results of a questionnaire and participant interviews, it also analyzes how participants engage with Please Smile and Hooray and respond both emotionally and physically.
dc.description.degree	Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52241
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject	Interactive installations
dc.subject	Performance
dc.title	Interactive installations as performance
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor	Nitsche, Michael
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Literature, Media, and Communication
local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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thesis.degree.level	Doctoral