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
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Stephen Wright appears in the course materials as a theorist concerned with how users, information, and interfaces form feedback loops within what he terms the "meta-environment"—a framework useful for understanding interactive and cybernetic systems in art. His work enables discussions of how art participants move beyond passive spectatorship toward co-creation, particularly when cited alongside scholars like Ascott and Shanken who theorize the breakdown of traditional audience categories in technologically mediated experiences. Though his specific arguments aren't extensively excerpted here, Wright seems positioned as a bridge between systems thinking and participatory art practice.
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