Abstract

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Staging Knowledge Space to Enter - Mixing the Real and the Virtual

Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann

Staging Knowledge Space to Enter – Mixing the Real and the Virtual

How to present knowledge as a visible shape? How to visualize it as a space to enter? Looking from a perspective of media art, the artists presentation examines the notion of knowledge space. The staging of information structures and the procedure of interactive perception will be exemplified by the authors’ own works e.g. Energy-Passages. No other, than the digital media offers a back-channel, that houses human thinking as reflections of calculated thoughts. The main thesis is, that reflection caused by interactive media art potentially creates new knowledge. The reflection focuses on two tracks:

- to identify a vocabulary for spatial notation in order to stage information structures as spaces of memory and knowledge to enter.
- to discuss interactive perception and meanings on the basis of a taxonomy of interactivity.

The paper focuses on interactivity as a culture of participation and sharing. What is the meaning of interactivity for the staging of media arts? What different formats of participation have been developed in the interactive arts? Which roles offer interactive staging to the participant, who becomes a co-creator?
In this paper the concept of spatial and temporal structure of knowledge is brought together with models of staging real and virtual space with body related interface environmments. A new interface paradigm combining time based interaction, bodily involvement and spatial perception will be described.