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Small History of interactive art
and interactive creations
For a bet in perspective uniting arts, literature and sciences


Contrary to a very spread idea, interactive arts existed long before the arrival of computers and therefore of "numerical". The history of interactive arts coincides with the history of sciences. The interactivity in art rests on its social aspect, or even political while numerical art is different from analogical art as the oil painting differs from the watercolor... Numerical art is a hollow concept into which rushes cadgers' multitude of subventions faced with cultural representatives sensitive to this advertising tab. Today everything is numerical, of the washing machine, in the camera, in the reservations of tickets of train. Participation and personal commitment are the motors of interactivity. The bottom remains artistic idea, form depends on employed means. Here is a possible definition of interactivity:

" Interactivity indicates (the) relation (s) of the informatico-electronic systems, with their outside environment. Interactive work is an informational object, manipulable.
They can differentiate two registers of interactivity: that with a human agent and that without human agent. In this second case, the agent can be elements of nature or environment.
With interactive art, the spectator and/or environment become elements of work, in the same capacity as other elements which compose it. "
Source: http: // www.olats.org / livresetudes / basic / 6_basiques.php

In the following chronology, are deliberately united artists, writers and creators. In the field of arts and in sciences researches are often closely linked. Sometimes it passes many years between a scientific discovery and its artistic use or in the opposite between a fantastic, long-term literary work or a poètique and of possible concrete achievements which would be inspired there.

J.R. Sédano - Updating: April, 2008


Forerunners and creators by order chronological:



-1796 Musical Box a cylinder. Invented in 1796 in Geneva by Antoine Favre.
source:http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Bo%C3%AEte _ % C3%A0_musique

-1820 Le Thaumatrope Sometimes the name of William Henry Fitton is linked to him. At the beginning of the cinema (phénakistiscope of Joseph Plateau, zootrope of William George Horner, the praxinoscope of Émile Reynaud)
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Thaumatrope
http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Pr%C3%A9-cin%C3%A9ma

-1881 television
source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Histoire_des_techniques_de_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision

-1906 William Marston, then John A. Larson (in 1920), creators of the detector of lies utilisant the resistance of the skin GSR Galvanic Skin Reponse). By other one versions followed:
1924: Leonard Keeler " Emotograph ", "Psychograph"
1932: Chester W. Darrow (Polygraph with galvanometer)
Source:http: // 209.85.135.104 / search? Q=cache:sVgfk-GOM64J:en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Polygraph+polygraph*hl=fr*ct=clnk*cd=1*gl=fr

-1909 FuturismeManifeste futurism was written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the most important actors of the common futurist, and was published on February 20th, 1909 in the Barber.
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Manifeste_du_futurisme


-1919 Thérémin by Russian Lev Sergeïevitch Termen (known under the name of Léon Theremin). Composed(made up) of an electronic case equipped with two antennae, the thérémine has feature to produce music without any physical contact of the instrumentalist.
Léon Theremin also developed a system of television enlivened in mirror turns, first 16 lines in 1925.
Source:http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Th%C3%A9r%C3%A9mine
http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Histoire_des_techniques_de_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision

-On 1927 Magical Theatre In " The wolf of the steppes ", considered to be the first novel existentialist, Herman Hesse presents towards the end of the book a " magical Theatre ", imaginary space the numerous rooms of which react to actions but also to wishes of the hero, Harry Haller.

-1947Cybernétique  formalized by the mathematician Norbert Wieneret will later be indicated as « the science of analogies controlled between organisms and machines »
Source: http: // 209.85.135.104 / search? Q=cache:WuzYF5oYqDYJ:fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Cybern%C3%A9tique+cybern%C3%A9tique*hl=fr*ct=clnk*cd=1*gl=fr

-1947 The transistor
Evolution among transistors in microprocessors:
   * 1971: 4004: 2 300 transistors
   * 2008: Sandisk 12 GB microSDHC: 50 billion transistors
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / transistor

-1950 Nicolas Schöffer  Exposition of the first " Sculptures spatiodynamiques "
1956: Creation and presentation of the First Autonomous Cybernetic Sculpture " CYSP 1. " (with the collaboration of the society Philips) in the Night of Poem, in the theatre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris.
Source: http: // www.olats.org / schoffer / biograph.htm

-1954 Kinetic Art Le term   indicate works of art put in movement by the wind, the audience and/or a motorized mechanism. Kinetic artists: Pol Bury, Julio Le Parc, Frank Malina, François Morellet, Abraham Palatnik, Nicolas Schöffer, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, Wen-Ying Tsaï....
Source:http: // 209.85.135.104 / search? Q=cache:tajmgenhxJIJ:fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Art_cin%C3%A9tique+art+cin%C3%A9tique*hl=fr*ct=clnk*cd=1*gl=fr

-1955Takis
1957 Takis: Signals are transformed into Signs Fires of Device.
1958: Discover the magnetic fields which will be at the root of her(its) work.
1974: The first Musical Space is displayed(explained) to the Kunstverein de Hanover.
Source: http: // www.takissculpture.com/
http: // en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Takis

-1956I In artificial intelligence been offered to indicate the research domain which opened then. JOHN MCCARTHY (born on September 4th, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is the main pioneer of artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky; it represents the current putting the emphasis on symbolic logic. He is also the creator in 1958 of language Lisp. At the end of 1950s, it created with Fernando Cobarto the technology of shared time, which allows to several users to use(employ) at the same time the same computer.
Source: http: // www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr / polys / intro / sortie001.html
http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Intelligence_artificielle

-1963GRAVCertains opto-kinetic artists met in a collective, the Group of Research of Visual Art (GRAV) with for purpose(goal) to allow all they be approach their art (Horacio Garcia Rossi, Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Joël Stein, Yvaral). So the manifesto of GRAV contained on a pamphlet distributed during the 3rd biennial of Paris in October, 1963 was called " Enough hoaxes " and contained the following lines:
   « We want to interest the spectator, to take it out from inhibition, to relax it.
   We want to make it participate.
   We want to put it in a situation which he(it) triggers off and which he(it) transforms.
   We want it to turn to a correlation with other audience.
   We want to develop at the spectator's a strong capacity of perception and action. »
Source:http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Art_cin%C3%A9tique

-1963Sketchpad
Source: http: // www.lumbroso.fr / lionel / 03_Plume / RV / RV_Ch05.htm

-1963 mouse
Source: http: // en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Douglas_Engelbart

- 1964Roy Ascott
Source: http: // en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Roy_Ascott
Source:http: // www.ciren.org / ciren / conferences / 281101 / index.html
http: // stephan.barron.free.fr / technoromantisme / ascott.html

-1967Piotr Kowalsky understood(consisted of) a system of sensors of theremin type). " Time scheme " 1980, introduced(presented) in the centre Pompidou in 1980, this implement allowed the spectator filmed in video to interrupt short sequences in its please and to view them on two screens at the same time.
Source:http: // montbouge.info / spip.php? Article514

--1968 May, 1968 all arts, theatre which called into question function(office) and place of the spectator, music discovered électro-acoustics, sound(resounding) landscape and the beginning of interactivity, plastic arts, happening... " To be free in 1968 it is to participate ".
Source:http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Mai_1968

-1969 Peter Vogel
Source:http: // www.spielvogel-galerie.de / html / kk-vogel.html

-1969  Myron Krueger  1970 "Videoputs"
Source:http: // ww3.ac-poitiers.fr / arts_p / b@lise16 / pageshtm / interact.htm

-1969 Fred Forest Electronic Messe in a gothic chapel. Put in contact by the "knowledge" an Past with the "knowledge" of the Gift(Present) …
Comprehension / realization: Fred Forest.
Musical creation: Luc Ferrari.
Texts: George ElGozy
Gothic chapel Saint-crucifix, Tours. Co-founder of the collective d' Art Sociologique
Source: http: // www.webnetmuseum.org / html / fr / expo-retr-fredforest / biographie_fr.htm
http: // www.webnetmuseum.org / html / fr / expo-retr-fredforest / action / 01_fr.htm*text

-1970 Erkki Kurenniemi
Source:http: // www.obsolete.com / 120_years / machine / dimi / index.html
Very good site of history of the electronic musical instruments: http: // www.obsolete.com / 120_years / nav.html

-1971 Vermilion Sands J.G. Ballard. Vermilion Sands, wrote J.G. Ballard, it is the exotic suburbs of my mind.
Desert, sea of sand, fossil lakes, reefs of quartz. Similar abstract landscape in those painted by Dali or Max Ernst.
Vermilion Sands is a strange seaside station to an ocean of sand, where they listen to the music of flowers and to the singing of the sonic sculptures, where the poets use machines with poem, where they sculpt clouds, where they live in houses manufactured by the unconscious, where they carry living clothes...

-1971 Roger Lafosse and Pierre Henry Pierre Henry: Bet in music of the corticalart of Roger Lafosse: Philips: 1971. Bet in music of the cerebral waves.
Source:http: // sonhors.free.fr / kronik / corticalart.htm

-1972 Jacques Dudon
Source:http: // aeh.free.fr/

-1973 Jean Pierre Balpe
Source: http: // www.manuscrit.com / Edito / invitation / page / MarsMulti_TrajectoiresBalpe.asp

-1975Michel WaisviszCrackle Box
Source: http: // www.crackle.org / CrackleBox.htm

-1976 David Rosenboom
Source:http: // music.calarts.edu / ~ david
http: // en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Electroencephalophone

-1977 Iannis Xénakis
Source: http: // www.musicologie.org / biography / xenakis_iannis.html
http: // membres.lycos.fr / musicand / instrument / digital / UPIC / UPIC.htm

-1977Jean-Robert Sédano"PianOptique",
Source:http: // www.ludicart.com / review / PianOptique / PianOptique.html

-1980 SONOPTICON
Source:http: // www.ludicart.com / review / Sonopticon / Sonopticon.html

-1980 Louis Dandrel
Source: http: // resonances2002.ircam.fr / bio.php3? Id_article=182

-1981Jean-Robert Sédano and Solveig de Ory " Music in motion " from April 8th till June 21st, 1981, Cultural Center of the Marais in Paris.
Source:http: // www.ludicart.com / review / Musique%20en%20Marche%20Paris / Musique_en_Marche_Paris.html

-1982 Music of Body
source: http: // www.ludicart.com / review / Musique%20de%20Corps / Musique_de_Corps.html

-1982 Tom Of Witt
Source: http: // www.comm.uqam.ca / ~ GRAM / IN / COMM / 050.HTML*TARGET_02

-1982 norm MIDI
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Musical_Instrument_Digital_Interface

-1983 Jean-Robert Sédano. " Computerised Musical Camera ",
Source:http: // www.ludicart.com / review / Cam%E9ra%20musicale / Camera_musicale.html

-1983 David Rokeby . Open House, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada. 1984 " Body Language " Justina Mr Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Source:http: // homepage.mac.com / davidrokeby / reflex.html

-1983 Jeffrey Shaw  
Source: http: // www.jeffrey-shaw.net/

-1983 Internet
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Internet

-1983 Erik Samakh  Lieu of listening, Symposium of granite sculptures of Limousin, Island of Vassivière
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Erik_Samakh

-1984 Jean - Louis Boissier : In " The bus ", on 1984, the visitor sets up in a chunk of true Parisian bus. By the window, a video landscape marches(scrolls). If the passenger supports(leans) scrolling on the button of request of stopping(cessation) it stop and is then possible to him(her) to discover the adjacent streets, buildings and even their inside.
Source: http: // ww3.ac-poitiers.fr / arts_p / b@lise16 / pageshtm / interact.htm

-1986 Jacques Serrano

-1986 SOUND=SPACE
Source:http: // easyweb.easynet.co.uk / nour-rolf / prgm4.html*MAEDCHEN

-1986 Miller Puckett
Source: http: // freesoftware.ircam.fr / article.php3? Id_article=7

-1986 Adobe DirectorC' is under Director that were created the most part of the classics of the CD-ROM.
Source: http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Adobe_Director

-1988 Christian Lavigne: His(her,its) plastic researches express themselves with a big diversity of mass media: painting, mosaic, sculpture, design, photograph.... Its training(forming) and its progression allow him(her) to formulate from 1988 the principle of ROBOSCULPTURE (computer-aided sculpture), an acknowledged pioneer of which he is consequently.
Source:http: // www.pimkey.com / ~ toilemet / cl / bio_f.htm

-1992 Christian Möller
 Light Blaster: Immaterial Membrane, Interactive light and sound installation at Design Horizonte, Naxos Halle. Frankfurt, on 1993. (cardiac monitor).
Source: http: // www.christian-moeller.com / display.php? Project_id=14
- tactile sound sculptures on 1997: Audio Grove, Interactive light and sound installation. Spiral / Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo. 1997.
Source:http: // www.christian-moeller.com / display.php? Project_id=6

-1992 Jacques Rémus
Source: http: // www.mecamusique.com/

-1992 Jean-Christmas Montagné
Source:http: // www.artsens.org / bio.html

-1993 Jean Robert Sédano " Tubulophone 1 ", tactile sound Sculptures
Source:http: // www.ludicart.com / review / Tubulophone%201 / Tubulophone_1.html

-1993Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Source:http: // stephan.barron.free.fr / technoromantisme / sommerer_mignoneau.html

-1993 Bill Spinhoven   Sur a screen was overcome by a visual implement, the immobile picture of an eyelid rounds off. The spectator goes up, the eyelid gets up, the eye fixe s "Regardeur". If this last moves laterally, the iris of the eye follows movement, it is the machine which notices(observes) the human being.
Source: http: // www.spinhoven.nl/

-1993 Karl Sim : "Genetic Images" on 1993. The author of Particle dreams accomplishes an interactive implement between the spectator-actor and the development of forms of synthesis in mutation on a series of screens here.
Source: http: // www.genarts.com / karl/

-1994:Maurice Benayoun
Source: http: // www.benayoun.com/

-1994:Philippe Moënne-Loccoz
Source: http: // pagesperso-orange.fr / philippe.moenne-loccoz/

-1995Agnès Fish and Daniel Bisbau.  " Musical Floor " created to Die (Drôme) by the association Préludes.
Source: http: // dbludes.club.fr / index.html

-1995 Sophie Lavaud : " Centre-light blue ", on 1995. Into this installation of virtual reality the author offers to the spectator to dive(flounder) in the thickness of pictorial material and to move across his different strata.  (Art3000, The Cube)
Source: http: // ww3.ac-poitiers.fr / arts_p / b@lise16 / pageshtm / interact.htm

-1997Tom DemeyerBig Eye  (Steim) " At Digital Dance hall 1997 "
Source: http: // art.net / ~ dtz / scott2.html

-1997Antoine Schmitt
Source: http: // www.gratin.org/

-1997José Le Piez Sound Sculptures of José Le Piez. They use an unique acoustical technique which it discovered and developed. They react to the simple sliding of a hand in the surface of a cylindrical indented party(part) of vibrating sound blades, issuing sounds of birds or flute. This technique is classified among idiophones, it is similar to that of the organ of crystal.
Source: http: // www.creathlon.com / l_sits / arbrasson/
-1998 ECM (since 1998, as part of the governmental program of action to prepare the entrance(admission) of France in the society of information (PAGSI), the Ministry of Culture and of Communication develops program « Space out Multimedia Culture » (ECM) which supports the installation of places of public accesses to the multimedia within cultural and sociocultural structures. ECM, which implements actions(stock) and programs of sensitization, introduction and training(forming) in the multimedia from cultur al, instructive and artistic contents and from plans of manners of these technologies, contribute to the governmental objective of reduction of the « numerical fracture ».)

 of l ' IRCAM , which also play this form of " cultural dumping ", very French peculiarity!

See on this subject:  A very good study on the conditions of musical creation in France:
-Benoit Duteurtre,
Requiem for a vanguard (1995)

ECM source: http: // www.ecm.culture.gouv.fr/

-1999EyesWeb free and free), he allows to create interactive sound(resounding) environments easily.
Source:http: // www.infomus.dist.unige.it/

- Interactive 1999Jean-Jacques Birgé CD-Rom.
Source:http: // www.somnambules.net / bios.htm

-2000 Nicolas Claus
Source:http: // www.somnambules.net / bios.htm

-2001 Thierry Fournier. THE TREASURE(TREASURY) OF NIBELUNGEN
Oratorio-installation interactive Room real time for four vocal soloists and electronics.
Creation in collaboration with Olivier Auber and Emmanuel Mâa Berriet.
Source:http: // www.thierryfournier.net / fr / references.html

-2002Music2eye NOEMI (2002), an interactive musical sculpture. On - natures (2003-2007) a job(work) of collaboration with Miguel knight.
Source:http: // www.music2eye.com / noemi / indexfr.htm

-2004Scenocosme
Source:http: // www.scenocosme.com / bio.htm


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to participate in plan:

http: // fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / Projet:Arts_interactifs

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Sites of studies and information:

Chaos Olats.org (Annick Bureaud)
Researchers of Sounds (Gérard Nicollet)
Sonoris Caused (Giles Malatray)
another site of Giles Malatray, exclusively dedicated to sound(resounding) arts, in the broad(wide) acceptation of term: Space Of Chiming Arts
ArtCatalyse (Marika Prévosto)

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