In this paper, a VisionArtTool(VAT) system that increases the ability of an interactive artwork is created on an interactive installation. The aim of the proposed VAT system is to widen the interactive range in order to provide a maximum freedom espec...
In this paper, a VisionArtTool(VAT) system that increases the ability of an interactive artwork is created on an interactive installation. The aim of the proposed VAT system is to widen the interactive range in order to provide a maximum freedom especially to young artists. In the recent works, interactive installation relies on heavy participation from spectators. Due to this reason, the quality of the artwork depends on the techniques that the artwork is deployed and represented instead of showing the intention from the artists.
There is a common problem among interactive artwork and artists. A lot of interactive artists are restricted in their creativity expressing an artwork with a challenging task of allowing their artwork to be fully interactive for the perspective of the spectators. Moreover, in-line with the progress in the information communication technology, many artists are not majoring in art but instead in computer technology with experience in programming as well. Taking the technological background of a prospective artist into consideration, technologically innovative artwork has an advantage over this group of techno-savvy artists. On top of it, there exists a different goal between engineers and artists. A goal of an engineer is to create a higher technology for artists to use, but this goal is not achievable if an artist is not techno-savvy as this may restrict their creativity to express an artwork.
Our work uses computer vision technique, which is one of the most popular tools for interactive artworks. Computer vision technique is known to be one of the most efficient ways to encourage spectators to participate in artworks and experience a sense of reality. In this paper, we propose VAT, an interactive artworks construction tool with computer vision techniques that supports artwork creation by interactive artists. Our proposed VAT system will bridge the gap between the artists’ and engineers’ own disadvantages and ease the creation of interactive artworks.
The unique features of VAT system include usage of computer vision based interaction constituents (hand, foot, head, body, color etc.). Artists easily able to select the intuitive visual programming based tools and create their artwork. Thus, this suits the perspective of a non-engineering based artists that uses technology and techniques for creating artwork as a representation of real-time interaction that can be chosen from the vision based interaction constituents mentioned above.
In order for the artists to use this tool, the proposed tool is based on visual programming and consists of vision-based functions as a simple menu in the interface. Therefore, artists can apply the techniques to their interactive artwork easily as well as representing their intention. The VAT system is a generic vision based toolkit that provides output for communicating with other art construction tool such as Flash and Processing in order to complete the interaction artwork content generation. Although, VisionArtTool is not a mean to express a province of beauty but it extends the capability to enable artists to express their work with technology.