Designing Interactive Public Art Installations: New Material Therefore New Challenges

Hu, Jun; Funk, Mathias; Zhang, Y Yu; Wang, F Feng

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_25

Cited by 11 publications

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“…However, while much research has elucidated the beneficial impact of engaging with visual art on well-being across diverse environments such as museums (Clow & Fredhoi, 2006;Fekete et al, 2023), online platforms (Trupp et al, 2022(Trupp et al, , 2023, hospitals (Karnik et al, 2014;McCabe et al, 2013;Rollins & Wallace, 2016), and residential interiors (Wikström et al, 1993), lesser attention has been devoted to investigating the well-being effects of art at the actual level of the public neighborhood or urban street. This is despite theoretical arguments that public artworks in urban spaces and streets have the potential to foster a sense of belonging and connection or attachment to one's neighborhood by bringing people together, inviting dialogue, reflection, and shared experiences among residents (Blackman, 2014;Froggett et al, 2014;Hu et al, 2014;Smedley, 2013). Opportunities for arts engagement are also argued to support neighborhood regeneration or "beautification" (Crumbaugh, 2001;Hall & Robertson, 2001;Mathews, 2010), which is linked to overall satisfaction with living in a community and improved well-being (Leslie & Cerin, 2008).…”

Section: Neighborhood/social Connectedness and Artsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Impact of Public Art: Engaging a Pedestrian-level Exhibition Improves Neighbourhood Connectedness and Well-being

Kühnapfel,

Trupp,

Pelowski

et al. 2024

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Interest is emerging in how art can enhance well-being and positively impact mental health. One aspect concerning a more wide-ranging view of the potential well-being impacts of art is the idea that engaging art can make us feel more connected to our neighborhood or surroundings and give us a sense of community. Although this has long been a goal for artists and cultural activities, especially in urban areas, it has not been studied experimentally. To fill this gap, we assessed whether a free sidewalk-level exhibition on neighborhood appreciation altered visitors’ connection to and satisfaction with their neighborhood, as well as their overall well-being. Using a pre-registered pre-post design, we asked passers-by to engage with the exhibition and assessed their attitudes and well-being before and after the experience. We also considered participants’ cognitive-affective experiences and their agreement with the intended emotions of the artist and curator as factors predicting changes. Results showed that after engaging the exhibition, participants (N = 64) felt significantly more connected to the neighborhood and had improved well-being. These changes were higher when participants felt the emotions intended by the artist. Additionally, feeling expansive emotional states and reporting higher cognitive appraisal in terms of meaningfulness and understanding of the art related to improved neighborhood connectedness. Our findings provide the first empirical evidence that art can serve as a community-connecting node and highlight the role of the artist’s intention, felt emotions, and cognitive appraisals in the impact of neighborhood galleries. This research could inform future exhibitions and interventions.

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Section: Neighborhood/social Connectedness and Artsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Impact of Public Art: Engaging a Pedestrian-level Exhibition Improves Neighbourhood Connectedness and Well-being

Kühnapfel,

Trupp,

Pelowski

et al. 2024

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“…This art form dynamically presents uncertainty and fosters audience engagement with artworks through various interactions and collaborative relationships [25]. Supported by emerging technologies [9,19], interactive art creates new art experiences that are widely embraced in the contemporary information era [18].…”

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Painterly Reality: Enhancing Audience Engagement with Paintings Through Interactive Art

Zhou,

Zhang,

Yip

2023

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts

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Perceiving paintings entails more than merely engaging the audience's eyes and brains; their perceptions and experiences of a painting can be intricately connected with body movement. This paper proposes an interactive art approach entitled "Painterly Reality" that facilitates the perception and interaction with paintings in a three-dimensional manner. Its objective is to promote bodily engagement with the painting (i.e., embedded body embodiment and its movement and interaction) to enhance the audience's experience, while maintaining its essence.Unlike two-dimensional interactions, this approach constructs the Painterly Reality by capturing the audience's body embodiment in real-time and embedding into a three-dimensional painterly world derived from a given painting input. Through their body embodiment, the audience can navigate the painterly world and play with the magical realism (i.e., interactive painterly objects), fostering meaningful experiences via interactions. The Painterly Reality is subsequently projected through an Augmented Reality Mirror as a live painting and displayed in front of the audience.Hence, the audience can gain enhanced experiences through bodily engagement while simultaneously viewing and appreciating the live painting. The paper implements the proposed approach as an interactive artwork, entitled "Everyday Conjunctive, " with Fong Tse Ka's painting and installs in a local museum, which successfully enhances audience experience through bodily engagement.CCS Concepts: • Applied computing → Media arts; • Human-centered computing → Mixed / augmented reality.

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“…Dynamic digital art forms and interactive sculptures that have many characteristics in driving the dynamics in public spaces; they accommodate active or passive participants with different roles and goals, so they can be considered as unique attractive nodes, which have much to offer and to explore how the elements and techniques could contribute to enhance interaction design. (Jun, Mathias,Yu, Feng, 2014). Such as "INTERACTIVE DIGITAL FLAME" It is an interactive sculpture installation that is controlled by group bicycling, which change the color, intensity and motion of the flame lighting when people ride the bicycles, giving the sculpture various intensity of energy.…”

Section: Interactive Sculptures and Public Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Technology in Architecture and Arts - Era Challenges

Hassan¹,

Elgohary²

2022

Proceedings of the Digital Technology in Architecture and Arts - Era Challenges

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Public spaces considered one of the main items of urban fabric, which forms a primary surrounding for human interactions. Nowadays, despite the recent development of public spaces, it mostly neglected the human aspects, as the users' interaction and delighting, which can be achieved through place making methodologies that seeks to enhance the role of human being and his social interactions in public spaces, and how to meet his physical and spiritual needs and aspirations. In this context, the research begins with studying the concept of place making, moreover, illustrates its traditional methodology. Then, turns to study the role of digital technology in developing and creating new techniques that are more dynamic and interactive, which can develop the traditional methodology, aiming to reach an integrated methodology of place making that combines the aspects of traditional place making with the digital interactive techniques to reach public spaces that are more interactive, attractive and enjoyable for users.

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Designing Interactive Public Art Installations: New Material Therefore New Challenges

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

On the Impact of Public Art: Engaging a Pedestrian-level Exhibition Improves Neighbourhood Connectedness and Well-being

On the Impact of Public Art: Engaging a Pedestrian-level Exhibition Improves Neighbourhood Connectedness and Well-being

Painterly Reality: Enhancing Audience Engagement with Paintings Through Interactive Art

Digital Technology in Architecture and Arts - Era Challenges

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