Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The module will be conducted as a series of experiments with interactive installations aimed at specific user groups or audiences in specific spatial contexts. This may be an urban place or stage, architectural setting, a community environment, an exhibition space, etc., where artistic installations are created and tested in relation to providing participant experiences of various kinds, which may be the orchestration of social relations, learning experiences, sensory and aesthetic experiences, action-reaction patterns, or similar. Various interactive technologies are investigated and applied in order to create the semester project.

Courses:

In connection with the module, the following courses will be offered:

• Interaction Spaces in Art and Technology
• Artistic and Academic Methodology IV

Other courses may be offered within the following areas:

• Interaction Design
• Audio Design
• Digital Representation II

Learning objectives

Knowledge

The objective of the module “Interaction Spaces in Art and Technology” is to introduce students to problem areas and designing solutions in relation to embodied interaction in interactive spaces, places, and installations.

During this module, students should acquire:

Basic knowledge about

• creation of interactive spaces and installations that encourage embodied activity and an understanding of the situated locale
• technologies that support interaction and active participation, targeted at certain user groups
• mechanical and electronic technologies for the creation of experience and interaction
• qualitative and quantitative methods and tools for the processing of auditive, tactile and visual information for the support of active interaction by participants within the installation
• problem analysis, research question and integrated problem solving guided by participant or user involvement and gathering of empirical data on a basic level

Skills

Skills in

• identifying and formulating an art problem within the theme “Interaction Spaces in Art and Technology” aimed at specific user groups or audiences
• analyzing the problem and developing alternative concepts for a defined problem within a defined context
• the application of audio and other technologies in connection with the design of content for interactive installations and spaces
• identifying, developing, and describing the interaction between audio, light and spatial effects, choice of materials and technological solutions with a view to achieving clear aesthetic expressions and motivating embodied performance
• selecting appropriate methods in connection with the development of artefacts within the theme “Interaction Spaces in Art and Technology”
• conducting outlined user involvement processes
• applying various types of empirical data collection for use in the project work

Competences

Competencies in

• the creation of interactive spaces and installations
• the use of empirical data gathered through user involvement and other data in the project work
• the use of interactive technologies, including control of media, light, and sound
• contextualizing own artistic solutions (to state-of-art, socio-cultural requisites and consequences, art theoretical and aesthetic dimensions, etc.)
• describing the completed design at a professional level and communicating this to external cooperation partners

Type of instruction

Method of working: Project work in groups.

Exam

Exams