Authenticating Experience

Abstract

This paper focuses on curating interactive art in experimental ways. It takes the experiment outside labs and into institutions and cityscapes in the form of prototype exhibitions to be evaluated through the medium of audience engagement. The PhD research focuses on authenticating the audience's experience of interactive art; first defining parameters for authenticity within fine arts and creative robotics, then examining how, through the application of evaluative frameworks to iterative exhibition processes, one might capture and utilize experience as a medium in itself. The exhibitions for examination are/will be produced by PhD researcher Deborah Turnbull Tillman through her research initiative New Media Curation (NMC).