Lantern Field: Exploring Participatory Design of a Communal, Spatially Responsive Installation

Brennon Bortz, Aki Ishida, Ivica Ico Bukvic, and R. Benjamin Knapp

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Mountains and Valleys (an anonymous name for confidentiality) is a communal,site-specific installation that takes shape as a spatially-responsiveaudio-visual field. The public participates in the creation of theinstallation, resulting in shared ownership of the work between both theartists and participants. Furthermore, the installation takes new shape in eachrealization, both to incorporate the constraints and affordances of eachspecific site, as well as to address the lessons learned from the previousiteration. This paper describes the development and execution of Mountains andValleys over its most recent version, with an eye toward the next iteration ata prestigious art museum during a national festival in Washington, D.C.

Citation:

Brennon Bortz, Aki Ishida, Ivica Ico Bukvic, and R. Benjamin Knapp. 2013. Lantern Field: Exploring Participatory Design of a Communal, Spatially Responsive Installation. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178484

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Bortz2013,
 abstract = {Mountains and Valleys (an anonymous name for confidentiality) is a communal,site-specific installation that takes shape as a spatially-responsiveaudio-visual field. The public participates in the creation of theinstallation, resulting in shared ownership of the work between both theartists and participants. Furthermore, the installation takes new shape in eachrealization, both to incorporate the constraints and affordances of eachspecific site, as well as to address the lessons learned from the previousiteration. This paper describes the development and execution of Mountains andValleys over its most recent version, with an eye toward the next iteration ata prestigious art museum during a national festival in Washington, D.C.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Brennon Bortz and Aki Ishida and Ivica Ico Bukvic and R. Benjamin Knapp},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178484},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Participatory creation, communal interaction, fields, interactive installation, Japanese lanterns},
 month = {May},
 pages = {73--78},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Lantern Field: Exploring Participatory Design of a Communal, Spatially Responsive Installation},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_192.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}