International Festival of Digital Arts Seminars

Interactivity and audience engagement (art, technology and participation)
This seminar explores the role interactivity and participation, as well as light art and new media approaches to the public space as tool that may foster engagement and shared forms of participation.

Saturday 14 January 2012, 16.00 – 19.00
Chaired by Régine Debatty – with artists Tine Bech, Graeme Crowley and Tom Keene

The Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, will coincide with the Olympics and Paralympics in London, and Watermans is pleased to host a Festival of ground-breaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. The project will include a series of seminars in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London and a publication with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. The issue guest editors are Irini Papadimitriou and Jonathan Munro.