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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00020
- Thesis Title
- Expanded Media: Interactive and Generative Processes in New Media Art
- Author
- Sam Woolf
- E-mail
- sam.woolf AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- PhD
- Year
- 2005
- Number of Pages
- 300
- University
- University of Sussex
- Thesis Supervisor
- Yvonne Rogers
- Supervisor e-mail
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Phil Husbands.
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Interact Lab, Informatics.
- Copyright Ownership
- Sam Woolf
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English
- URL where full thesis can be found
- Keywords
- interactive, generative, new media, sound, cinema, film, sculpture, expanded, robotic
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- In this thesis I explore the use of generative and interactive processes in NewMedia Art. More specifically, I will look at how the form, content and perception of artworks and media systems are influenced when, primarily through the useof information technology, new aspects such as interactivity and generative processes are introduced. I shall consider how the various aspects of this effectmanifest themselves in diverse media, from art installation and sculpture, to music, cinema and software art. As well as investigating some of the theoreticalissues involved, and the methodology and practice of artists both contemporary and historical, I have also attempted to open out and further explore this areathrough the creation of new works of my own that attempt to use interactive and generative processes in novel and interesting ways that expand ourunderstanding and use of New Media forms.