The communicability among these three elements (user, information and interface) reveals a complex adaptive system with many levels of exchange among them. I call this relationship the meta-environment since it involves the processes of sto…Artists and art historians (Ascott, Lovejoy, Paul, Shanken, etc.) use the terms spectator, participant, viewer, audience and user almost interchangeably to describe the person experiencing an artwork, but such usage obscures the potential o…Shanken, E. (2007). Telematic embrace: Visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Stephen Wright
theorist · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Stephen Wright appears primarily as a reference in discussions of participatory and relational aesthetics, particularly regarding how audiences shift from passive spectatorship to active co-creation in technologically mediated artworks. The course readings invoke his work to trouble the terminology used by art historians and theorists—his intervention lies in clarifying that terms like "user," "participant," and "viewer" are not interchangeable, but rather encode different power relationships and creative potentials in human-machine and human-artwork encounters. This distinction becomes crucial for understanding feedback loops and adaptive systems in art contexts where the audience's role fundamentally shapes meaning-making.
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