Interactive Video Installation Research Articles

Communicating expressiveness and affect in multimodal interactive systems

Multisensory integrated expressive environments is a framework for mixed reality applications in the performing arts such as interactive dance, music, or video installations. MIEEs address the expressive aspects of nonverbal human communication. We present the multilayer conceptual framework of MIEEs, algorithms for expressive content analysis and processing, and MIEEs-based art applications.

The Evolving Oblique

The Evolving Oblique is an interactive video and sound installation using multiple gauze screens and projections, which explores the embodiment of a virtual topology through a mobile participant. The projected imagery and audio deals with space as a medium, a substance through which events are interrelated by interference and amplification. The imagery is a way to inhabit time, a movement connected to ones own movements, something far more sensitive and responsive than an architecture of frames and solids that is only capable of returning the same answers to the experiential body.

Shifting from physical to electronic space: The making of electronic Ecumenopolis

The author has been involved in communications with and without technology, and was invited editor for the October 1983 issue of Ekistics. His Ph.D (Edinburgh University, 1974) was on Space Networks - the concept of space as a network rather than as place. As a student, he participated in the 1969 Delos Symposion on Networks. He has been a consultant to various organizations and institutions (including UNESCO; EVR ofM.l.T., USA; C.I.C., Paris; the Greek Ministry of Culture) on issues connecting technology to policy legislation and culture. His work focuses both on large-scale areas - for four years he was amember of the IDAT Europe scientific council - and also on isolated human settlements, specifically islands for a telecommunications development with simultaneous use of geographical distance to safe-guard identity. In the field of art-science-technology, he was with the C.A.V.S. of M.I.T., and has been active with geopolitical projects and project-proposals, as well as with a series of 2-way interactive video installations that articulate electronic space. Dr Mitropoulos is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.

Sculpting in Time and Space: Interactive Work

The authors have experimented with the Web to develop its potential for creative, collaborative expression and to explore and sculpt the boundaries between physical space and cyberspace. Their work grew directly out of Nina Sobell's interactive video installations of the early 1970s, in which she used the medium to sculpt space and time and to create bridges for shared human experience. Their inspiration in Park Bench has been to address the physical disconnectedness of the information age by creating a safe place to congregate in cyberspace. Their work has inspired the development of new technologies, including a wireless telerobotic video camera for streaming video to the Web from remote locations.