Composing Interactions, by Marije Baalman
In this workshop a visual language for documenting and conceptualizing interactive works (for example performance interfaces or installations) is introduced. This language was originally developed for the book Composing Interactions.
Participants (artists, makers, teachers and researchers) are guided through the process of analyzing existing projects and documenting the concept, physical implementation and signal processing along the way. This multilevel approach allows for a documentation that can be understood across hardware & software systems, and across time.
Composing Interactions Website
Photo credits: Helena Roig, during the iii masterclass November 4 and 5, 2023What will happen during the workshop?
In the first part of the workshop, the participants will be introduced to the first elements of the visual language, to describe the concept of their work. Which performative actions have what kind of effect on the output medium?
In the second part we will dive into how the different physical elements are connected, and document this part of each project, using the symbols from the visual language.
Finally, the participants are introduced to the symbols for describing the different processes that happen from the interface (with its sensors) to the output medium: how is the sensor data processed to finally steer or influence the output medium?
Target audience
The target audience for this workshop are artists and makers who want to learn a method to document their artwork, teachers who want to learn about a method that can be useful to their courses on interaction design, as well as researchers who are looking for a method to study and compare interactive works and performance interfaces.
What to bring?
Participants should bring for the workshop an existing project, for example a performance interface or an installation (in as far as possible), and have their existing documentation, technical rider, hardware design files and/or software code at hand.
During the workshop we will both use pen & paper to document, as well as the laptop.
Practical Information
June 18th 2025
10:30 – 18:30 Hrs.
7 hours with a break in between
Activity in English.
80 EUR
16 places
Canรฒdrom – Ateneu d’Innovaciรณ Digital i Democrร tica
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