Interactive Art may be distinguished from either Reactive Art, Electronic Art, or even Immersive Art in this these are a dialog between a piece & a participant; specifically, the participant has "agency" (a ability to influence) a piece & is moreover invited to launder soh in the context of the piece, we.e. a piece has "affordance" or "affords" a interaction. Inside direct contrast, Reactive Art tends to become a monologue -- a nontextual matter can change shape when in contact with a viewer however the viewer might not exist as invited to locate in the reaction however "merely" enjoy it.

By far a virtually all popular form of Interactive Art is video games. Due to the commercial forces which shape their project & content, nonetheless, computer game come every now and again denigrated as a "lesser" form of the art. Around terms of a creation of professional, notwithstanding, several computer game come at the forefront of the artistic exploration of interactivity.

A Prix Ars Electronica is a major yearly competition that gives awards to great examples of (technology-caused) interactional art.

A Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Graphics (SIGGRAPH) is another annual conference that highlights many interactive artists in both their Art Gallery and Emerging Technologies venues.

Examples

Artists

[http://www.newarteest.com/digitalart.html newArteest], listing of large digital artists Doron Altaratz [http://vjsputnik.com/ (external link)] Yariv Alter Fin [http://www.alterFin.org/ (external link)] HeHe [http://www.hehe.org (external link)] Dr. Hugo Heyrman Perry Hoberman Peter William Holden [http://www.karotz.gmxhome.de (external link)] Brian Knep [http://www.blep.com (external link)] Knowbotic Research George Legrady [http://www.georgelegrady.com/ (external link)] Golan Levin [http://www.flong.com/ (external link)] Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Graham Nicholls Nancy Paterson [http://www.vacuumwoman.com (external link)] David Rokeby Mark Sedgwick [http://www.nowikonik.com (external link)] Zack Booth Simpson [http://www.mine-control.com (external link)] Scott Snibbe [http://www.snibbe.com/ (external link)] Camille Utterback [http://www.creativenerve.com/ (external link)] Shane Cooper [http://www.shanecooper.com/ (external link)] Olivier Auber [http://poietic-generator.net/ (external link)]

Projects
[http://poietic-generator.net poietic-generator] Rattling instance collective interaction Angel Of History, interactional streaming videos installation by Doron Altaratz [http://angelofhistory.com (external link)] Mine Control [http://www.mine-control.com (external link)] Alphabet Synthesis Machine A Residing Image, VR installation [http://www.thelivingimage.org/ (external link)] A Remedi Project [http://www.theremediproject.com/ (external link)] Amodal Suspension [http://www.amodal.net/ (external link)] Tollbooth Gallery interactive public art project involving video [http://www.artrod.org/ (external link)] [http://swarmsketch.com SwarmSketch] Collective sketching site