Interactive contemporary art : participation in practice / edited by Kathryn Brown.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Moving images, two-way / Mieke Bal -- Computer art and the cosmopolitan imagination / Kathryn Brown -- Participatory art and the everyday : a South African perspective / Nicola Grobler -- Social landscapes : Andrew Kötting's Gallivant and Alex Hartley's Nowhereisland / Joel Robinson -- I am equipment : artist as interface / Josh Ginsburg -- Participation and education in cognitive capitalism : an interview with Warren Neidich / Claudia Slanar -- The audience cries back / Susan Jarosi -- Ethics in public : the return of antagonistic performance / Harry Weeks -- No retreat : performance as behaviour modification / Jennifer Kalionis -- The art of experience in the age of a service economy / Juliet Steyn -- Curating interactivity : models, motivations, and new institutionalism / Margriet Schavemaker -- Impossible participation / Freee Art Collective.

Audience participation has polarized recent debates about contemporary art. This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and aesthetic potential of participatory artworks and tests the very latest theoretical approaches to this subject. Internationally renowned art historians, curators and artists analyze the impact of collaborative aesthetics on personal and social identity, concepts of the artist, the ontology of art and the role of museums in contemporary society. Essential reading for students and specialists, Interactive Contemporary Art offers a vital critical evaluation of interactivity in contemporary art.