Participation is an exhibition which will take place in the Poly – Falmouth Arts Centre, in October 2007. This blog is created as a space for artists and a curator to discuss issues of participation and debate the works while they are still being created. Please feel free to comment and contribute to the blog.
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May 1, 2007 at 9:51 am
robhawes
Sorry I couldn’t make it to the first open research meeting. It might be nice to get feedback and an update from those who attended, and comments about the projects presented?
July 22, 2007 at 12:47 pm
sarah
interact – to act on one another
interactive – allowing, or capable of, mutual action; allowing continuous two-way communication between a computer and its user
participate – to have a share, or take part in; to have some of the qualities of.
participant – participating; sharing – a person, group etc. taking part.
These are some of the definitions I found when I looked up the words interact, interactive, participate, and participant. I looked them up in Chmabers Concise English Dicitonary, not having an art dicitonary to hand, and I’m not sure how much they contribute towards explaining the work we are making. I was wondering about the difference between participatory art works, and interactive art works. Is there a difference between the two terms? Is one of them more ‘correct’ than the other? To me, ‘interactive’ suggests a work that can be interacted with after it has been made by someone, and participatory suggest work that many people can take part in the making of. What does anybody else think about that? Maybe the two terms just mean the same thing? Or maybe work can be both participatory (in its making) and interactive (in its experience).
Any thoughts on that would be really great. Let me know what you think or know, thanks, Sarah
August 9, 2007 at 10:46 am
Jem Mackay
Could we get all the artists to write what their project is going to be about?
Here’s mine:
The Legend of King Arthur
In an age of reproduction, most people are familiar with the idea of ‘the completed story’. People buy stories. They buy books or watch a film. They all have fixed beginnings, middles and endings. Before the age of print however, stories were much more fluid. They largely existed in an environment of oral folklore where the story changed as often as the story was told and retold. With this piece, I am exploring the openness of a legend and how it can be applied to stories within our new technologies.
– Jem