The reason that art is difficult to become familiar with is its one-way delivery of messages. But what if an artwork is created by reacting to my simple hand gesture or a small sound? Wouldn’t art become more fun and easier to understand?

“Interactive Art Museum,” the nation’s first-ever museum exclusive for interactive art, opened in Gapyeong.

Park Dae-yang, Director of the museum, says that he has been thinking about communication with the audience for a long time while he worked in the field of exhibition planning. He concluded that an interaction is needed for the artwork to communicate with the audience and be recreated in various forms, and eventually found the answer in interactive art.

Interactive art is a form of communicative art that combines advanced techniques and art through which the audience actively participates to create artwork. Because the artist and the audience conduct two-way communication through artwork, there is no reason for the audience to feel left out as with the existing, traditional forms of art.

While the audience has become more active, the artist hides self and the intentions, and, instead, allows the audience to find the messages and produce the artwork.

The artwork named <Chaos Fractal> creates various forms of the universe by a whisper or a footstep of the audience like how each person’s universe is different from one another.

Meanwhile, <Watershadow in the dish>, which looks as if a dish holds water, is merely an illusion shown through a video although a person’s shadow is reflected and scenes of four seasons appear. A fun fact is that a thirsty puppy once approached the artwork to try to drink water from it. Not everything you see with your own eyes is truth. Doesn’t it seem to be saying that what looks to be truth may be fiction and vice versa?

In addition, there is an artwork in which I write a scenario and become the director and the actor to produce a film, and also that makes a happy and sad face when reading positive and negative comments on social media. In front of an artwork, the audience dynamically takes an action in one second and thoroughly ponders its message in the next. I believe this is the real appeal of “Interactive Art” through which objective science and heartwarming art meet to reach 36.5C in many of the audience.

Written and photos by Kim Sun-joo

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The artwork commentary takes about 20 minutes and, afterwards, it is recommended to view freely on your own.

Artwork commentary time: 10:00, 10:50, 11:40, 12:30, 13:20, 14:10, 15:00, 15:50, 16:40, 17:30

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