Interactive Art

From1980’s, with the development and the popularization of the digital technology andthe appearance of the new media art, the aesthetic creation based on the digital record, digitalmovie, digital animation, computer graphics, multimedia technique and interactive techniquebecame a trend. As well as the creative forms listed above, interactive media art makescomputer the media, and it is a typical intersectional art form. Interactive media art realizesthe re-creation of the form, the image and the sense of the project by the means of touch,phonation, movement and other personal participation of the spectators. Spectators areimmersed in the experience of the projection and interact with the principal. The techniquesrelate to the interactive media art cover the techniques of internet, interactive, multimedia,virtual reality, bionics, electronics, computer graphics and telecommunications.The development of art and media made people comprehend the huge variety of therelationships between artists, works and the spectators gradually. Media affects the way ofhuman to apperceive the space, objects and time, and it has tight relation with the evolution ofthe sensorial organs of human. How to look and what to look is not only a single physicalissue, but also a complex evolution of civilization.Human’s body, as the primary media to sense the outer world, experience and reflect allthe phenomena and objects surrounding it. This article will makes spectator’s body as acarrier and the personal experience as a cut-in point, and explores the issue of the relation ofart and technology. Interactive media art is a representative of the closely combination of artand technology. As the introduction of electronic technique and information technique, thesubject and the object of the art creation communicate more directly. Works of artists changedwith the development of media. They used the new carrir of representation, stimulate thesensorial organs of human, and excavate the subjective creation of human. There apperared ahuge conversion of the relation between the subject and the objection of the creation. Theobject of the art not only act as the the spectator, but also patticipate the processe of thecreation. In this case, it becomes the subject of the art. The realationship between the creatorand the creation convert from passive to interactive. The patticipation of the projects offer the spectators more imagination. This unlinear process of thinking convert the traditional visualexpericens and it is not merely looking, but an involvement, manipulation and immersioninside the creation.According to the social and cultural phenomena led by the computer techniques whichinclude computer graphics, virtual reality, artificial intelegence, the consideration of the thereality, virtual world, human and machine become a principal part of the research of westernmedia culture. Currently in China, the research of media culture focus more on newspater,television and internet. The research in the field of media culture centered on the computertechnology still gets behind. There is a real new media revolution in today’s world, so theentry of interactive new media is imperative under the situation.