What is Interactive Media Art

New Media Art

Art made with the “new” media a.k.a media that is shared online and through computers.

Historically referred to with a variety of titles such as computer art, digital art, or electronic art.

Media Art

Art with technology

Interactive Media Art

Art with technology that is interactive

Encompasses a variety of types of projects:

  • Games
  • Interactive Installations
  • Applications
  • Websites
  • Further

Art Installation Experiments: The Legible City, Jeffery Shaw, 1988

Interactive Objects: Bar Code Hotel, Perry Hoberman, 1994

Choreographic Interactivity: City of Abstracts, William Forsythe, 2001

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Net Art: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, Olia Lialina, 1996

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Online Game Art: Barnacle Goose Experiment, Everest Pipkin, 2023

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Games made by artists: LSD: Dream Emulator, Osamu Sato, 1998

Game for download/gallery: Feral Metaverse, Theo Triantafyllidis, 2023–ongoing.

Steam and Installation

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Installation view from ‘if/then’ at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2025. Photo: Błażej Pindor

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Class Focus

This class is particularly focused on the history of interactive media art where it interests with artists and video games. Looking closely at games made by designers who consider themselves to be artists.