Coulter-Smith, Liz

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Interactivity and 'locativity' have become the buzz words of new media art. In spite ofinteractivity being possibly the most salient and significant feature of new media art itis not widely understood or thoroughly theorised. This paper will seek to explore thefundamentals of interactivity and in the course of this investigation we will examinethe significance of locative media, the most recent form of new media art.One of the enduring goals of avant-garde art from Dada onward has been to deconstruct the barrier between the viewer and the work of art.1 Attempts to achieve this by undermining the elitism of the traditional notion of the aesthetic object have been persistently defeated by the fine art system wherein even a public convenience urinal such as Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917, is transmuted into a precious objet d'art. Fountain recently sold at auction for over a million dollars.2 The transformation of virtually any form of artistic production into extremely precious objects means thatvisiting an art gallery/museum is akin to visiting a bank vault. The visitor is constantly watched by guards and CCTV and segregated from the precious objects by a varietyof barriers

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Mapping Outside the Frame: Interactive and Locative Art Environments

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Mapping Outside the Frame: Interactive and Locative Art Environments

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