Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau - Interactive Art Research

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are two of the most innovative and internationally renowned media artists and researchers. Their work has been called "epoch-making" (Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC Museum, Tokyo) for developing natural and intuitive interfaces and for applying scientific principles such as artificial life, complexity, generative systems and nanotechnologies to their innovative interface design. This monograph represents a comprehensive overview of Sommerer and Mignonneau’s art and research. About this book

• Is a detailed compendium of the work of these distinguished artists
• Contains contributions from Roy Ascott, Anne Marie Duguet, Oliver Grau, Erkki Huhtamo, Machiko Kusahara, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf and Peter Wiebel, among others

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are two of the most innovative and internationally renowned media artists and researchers. Their work has been called "epoch-making" (Toshiharu Itoh, NTT-ICC Museum, Tokyo) for developing natural and intuitive interfaces and for applying scientific principles such as artificial life, complexity, generative systems and nanotechnologies to their innovative interface design. This monograph represents a comprehensive overview of Sommerer and Mignonneau’s art and research. In addition to providing detailed project descriptions of each interactive artwork, it includes essays and articles by highly recognized media scholars and theoreticians who bring the interactive artworks of Sommerer and Mignonneau in an art and media art history perspective. Written for:
Students, professionals, and laymen with interest in the fields of media art, computer art, interactive art, media architecture, art, informatics, and biology preview.pdf Hardcover: 232 pages,With numerous illus., in color. With DVD.
Published: 2009
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-211-99015-5