Translating Art Installation into ICT: Lessons Learned from an Experience at Workspace

Interactive digital art can create innovative ways to stimulate and engage audience, what could benefit the space where the installation is done. Aiming at promoting the adoption of non-used places through pleasant experiences, we considered an art project that promotes people engagement to make them become the community's wishes expression. We focus on understanding the process to translate the essence of an artistic expression using Information and Communications Technology (ICT). We translated this artistic expression into digital art installation within a socially 'abandoned' space at a workplace. The biggest challenge is to understand how people interact with the dynamic art-system, that, potentially, it leads audience to experience a highly intimate relationship with the installation and the space. Preliminary results reveal a similar behavior in the audience at both installations, which highlights the potential of ICT to translate the essence of an artistic expression and promote the adoption of a space.

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