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Interactive Art

My main research topic within the last five years have been the aesthetics of interaction

In 20011 I finished the manuscript of "aesthetics of interaction in digital art" (in German, currently in translation)

I presented my research on several conferences, including

• Mediaarthistories Conference, Melbourne 2009
• Mediaarthistories Conference, Liverpool 2011
• Digital Arts and Culture, Irvine (CA) 2009
• Immersion, LMU Munich, 2011
• Re-Touching McLuhan, Canadian Embassy, Berlin, 2011
• Club Transmediale 2011
• ISEA RUHR 2010
• Performing Presence, Exeter 2009
  

several aspects of my research have already been published:

• Audiovisual Interactive Art – from Artwork to Device and back, in: Dieter Daniels und Sandra Naumann (Hg.): Audiovisuology 2. Essays. Histories and Theories of Audiovisual Media and Art, Köln 2011, S. 148-171.
• Sound-Image Relations in Interactive Art, in: Dieter Daniels und Sandra Naumann (Hg.): Audiovisuology. Compendium. An Interdisciplinary Survey of Audiovisual Culture, Köln 2010, S. 162-175.
• Embodiment and Instrumentality, in: Simon Penny (Hg.): Conference Proceedings Digital Art and Culture 2009: After Media. Embodiment and Context, Irvine 2009, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zg3t13v
• "Your number is 96 – please be patient". Modes of Liveness and Presence Investigated Through the Lens of Interactive Artworks, in: Sean Cubitt und Paul Thomas (Hg.): Conference Proceedings re:live Konferenz, Melbourne 2009, S. 89-94.
• Geopoetics: Aesthetic Experience in the Works of Stefan Schemat and Teri Rueb, in: Francisco J. Ricardo (Hg.): Literary Art in Digital Performance. Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism, London/New York 2009, S. 84-105.
• Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art. A buzzword of New Media under Scrutiny, in: Gerfried Stocker und Christine Schöpf (Hg.): Ars Electronica 2008. A New Cultural Economy, Ostfildern 2008, S. 146-148.
• Opus Ludens. Towards an aesthetics of interactivity, in: Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée King (Hg.): Interface Cultures. Artistic Aspects of Interaction, Wien/New York 2008, S. 153-163.
• The invention of interactive art, in: Dieter Daniels und Barbara U. Schmidt (Hg.): Artists as Inventors / Inventors as Artists, Ostfildern 2008, S. 182-193

I also did several research projects related to the topic, see "audience experience" and "archiving and documentation"

For Ars Electronica 2008, I curated a conference entitled: Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art