Informative art: using amplified artworks as information displays

  • Authors:
  • Johan Redström;Tobias Skog;Lars Hallnäs

  • Affiliations:
  • PLAY: Applied research on art and technology, Interactive Institute, Box 620, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden;PLAY: Applied research on art and technology, Interactive Institute, Box 620, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden;PLAY: Applied research on art and technology, Interactive Institute, Box 620, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • DARE '00 Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing augmented reality environments
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Informative art is computer augmented, or amplified, works of art that not only are aesthetical objects but also information displays, in as much as they dynamically reflect information about their environment. Informative art can be seen as a kind of slow technology, i.e. a technology that promotes moments of concentration and reflection. Our aim is to present the design space of informative art. We do so by discussing its properties and possibilities in relation to work on information visualisation, novel information display strategies, as well as art. A number of examples based on different kinds of mapping relations between information and the properties of the composition of an artwork are described.