Interactive Art To Go

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel method for reproducing and sharing interactive art outside museums using a projector-camera system and a downloadable app, enabling visitors and non-visitors to experience the art remotely.

Contribution

The authors develop a portable projector-camera system and a downloadable app to reproduce interactive art outside traditional exhibition spaces for wider accessibility.

Findings

Successfully implemented a portable ProCam-based interactive artwork.

Enabled sharing of interactive art via a downloadable app.

Demonstrated the system at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

Abstract

Traditional artworks like paintings, photographs, or films can be reproduced by conventional media like printing or video. This makes visitors of museums possible to purchase postcards, posters, books, and DVDs of pictures and/or movies shown at the exhibition. However, newly developing arts so called interactive art, or new media art, has not been able to be reproduced due to limitation of functionalities of the conventional media. In this article, the authors report a novel approach of sharing such interactive art outside the exhibition, so that the visitors of the museum can take a copy to home, and even share it with non-visitors. The authors build up their new projector-and-camera (ProCam) based interactive artwork for exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) by using Apple's iPhone. The exactly same software driving this artwork was downloadable from Apple's App Store -- thus all visitors or even non-visitors could enjoy the same experience at home or wherever they like.