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Immersive, Interactive, Experience:

The Dialogic and a push Beyond Surface

How do participants engage and go beyond the surface of the creative object?

In contradiction to both David Joselit’s theories of “metaphoric flatness” in Modernist artworks and the loss of this dimension or depthlessness in Postmodernist artworks where the surface is a blank 2D flat space without affect, the presented works in this thesis use immersive, interactive, and creative technologies to design experiential art that explores the idea of pulling the art object beyond flatness.

GalleryVR

What if we could walk into a painting and be fully immersed in it? The works can be viewed by the spectator as a static art objects when projected on the wall that can be walked through in Virtual Reality.

AR - Painting with Glow Sticks

This Augmented Reality piece allowed participants to paint the environment using glow sticks as a paintbrush. using the Microsoft Kinect as a camera.

AR Glow Stick Painting in VR Gallery

The AR paintings from the Thesis Show are put up on display within the GalleryVR experience as another way to experience the spectator's interaction with the art.

Magic Particles

The magic particles tracked users' body movements and generated rainbow particles as the participant moved around the space.

HoloLeap

Participants could hover their hands over the Leap Motion sensor and trigger various dance moves and music.

Research + Works Cited

There were some challenging moments in terms of the curation of the space. The presented works tackle four methodologies; the concept of Joselit’s surface meaning, the dialogic conversation, the modality of experiential interactivity, and immersion.

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