Reading Response 5

"Responsive Environments" is about Myron Krueger's exploration of interactive digital art through various projects. Each project showed an development from the last one concerning the ways the audience reacted to the space and how the work changes during the interactions. It went from a user communicating and interacting digitally with the audience in a separate space to the computer interpreting and reacting to the audience based on sensors. In the end, the author describes a virtual reality world in which it would try to emulate everything in life through computers when people communicate. In the end though, when creating such interactive pieces, the artist has to guess how the artwork would impact the audience and deal with the changing possibilities that he or she may have never considered while creating it.

I thought the article was interesting because it walked you through the thinking process he had in developing these interactive art pieces. It showed a lot of possibilities of how to get the audience to participate and how the computer can interpret data from them. It seems a lot more exciting when you don't know the outcome because different people can come up with so many possibilities and reactions to it.