Just back from Liverpool where Art is Open Source attended the (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 events presenting Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi.

[DpSdC]Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi partecipated at the (re)Actor3 event and at the HCI2008 conference in Liverpool.

[DpSdC]Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi has been originally created for the LPM2008 event to promote the DegradArte artist movement born as a surreal protest when the Italian governmen promoted a surreal law on copyright.
DpSdC originally was designed to interact using the gestures that people perform when seeping the floor with a broom, emotionally linking the experience of interacting with artworks to common movements to which everyone can relate to, effectively eliminating the inhibition barriers that, classically, create distance between users and artworks.
For this version we decided to use another setting, with the same intent: the dinner. People were invited to eat their dinners on the installation, chatting about and laughing amazed at the beautiful things hey could achieve by simply lifting their knives or moving their glasses. Another great experiment investigating on the posibilities for relational dimensions created at the intersections of art and architecture.

Here is a video of the conference we held at the event.

These two videos show the set up of the installation and the evening event, held at Liverpool’s beautiful CUC COntemporary Arts Center

The (re)Actor3 event was organized and sponsored by BigDog Interactive. We had a chance to meet them ad they’re fantastic people, deeply involved in art, technology and in a beautiful perspective on the ways in which technology changes society and cultural practices. Hese is an interview with Jenn Sheridan, one of the founders of BigDog.

check out how it went with full video coverage here:

> report from Liverpool

connect to the events at

> (re)Actor3

> HCI2008

Tags: conference, copyright, design, DpSdC, emotion, event, exhibition, experience, interaction design, liverpool, relation

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