The Changing Role of the Interface in New Media Art
My research is concerned with the digital interface, its usage in interactive new media art installations, and the factors that have lead to its consequent disappearance within these artworks. My thesis argues that within the past decade a significant transformation has occurred at the boundary of media studies and art history regarding the way the viewing subject in new media art is positioned in relation to technology. Drawing on theories of the digital interface the body and embodiment and ubiquitous computing from the disciplines of art history, computer science and media studies, it examines how this shift in position from viewing subject to viewer/participant along with the removal of the digital interface from interactive new media installations, allows the viewer/participant to begin to produce digital information.
BFA Studio Arts - Michigan State University
MA Art History - University of Manchester