Understanding the experience of interactive art: Iamascope in Beta_space
Proceedings of the second Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment
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The genre of biosensing interactive art relies on the bodily responses of participants to complete the work. Exploring the experience of participants during such encounters is central to fully appreciating the work of art. Yet few artists and researchers working in this area are actively seeking to understand the experience of participants with these works. This research project has developed Inspiroscope, a biosensing, interactive artwork that evokes an awareness of embodiment by focusing perception towards the act of breathing. It pursues an understanding of the subjective bodily and aesthetic experiences of participants who encounter the work. This paper uses the prototype of Inspiroscope as the test bed to consider some of these experiences. The results acknowledge that an artwork can provide participants with a playful, self-reflexive, exploratory space, giving them with a deeper understanding of their bodies and an enhanced lived experience of being in the world.